Dębe Małe is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Latowicz __NOTOC__ Gmina Latowicz is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Latowicz, which lies approximately south-east of Mińsk Mazowiecki and east of Warsaw. ...

, within

Mińsk County __NOTOC__ Mińsk County ( pl, powiat miński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It was (re)created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government re ...

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, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately west of

Latowicz Latowicz is a town in Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Latowicz. It lies approximately south-east of Mińsk Mazowiecki and east of Warsaw. The town h ...

, south-east of

Mińsk Mazowiecki Mińsk Mazowiecki () "''Masovian Minsk''") is a town in eastern Poland with 40,999 inhabitants (2020). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999) and is a part of the Warsaw Agglomeration. It is the capital of Mińsk County. Locate ...

, and south-east of

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

Name

Until the mid-twentieth century, the village was known as Dambe, Dembe, or Dumbe, which refers to a wooded area. The forests in the area are dominated by oaks, a tree venerated since pagan times, hence the name from ''deby'' meaning oaks. The second part of the name "małe" or "small" was added later, when geographers realized that there were two villages (thence called Dembe-Małe and Dęmbe-Wielkie) with the same name in the Masovian Voivodeship. However, in 1953 Dembe-Wielkie (aka Dęby or Demby) was closed down.

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Villages in Mińsk County {{Mińsk-geo-stub