Firlej is a

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Lubartów County __NOTOC__ Lubartów County ( pl, powiat lubartowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ...

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, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Firlej __NOTOC__ Gmina Firlej is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Lubartów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Firlej, which lies approximately north-west of Lubartów and north of the regional capital ...

. It lies approximately north-west of

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and north of the regional capital

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. It is situated close to

Lake Firlej Lake Firlej is a lake in east Poland in Lubartów County near the village of Firlej. The lake has no tributaries and no permanent outlets. The periodic flow only exists after thaws or heavy rains. It flows from its western side and into the lower ...

In 2004 the village had a population of 1,000.

History

The town Firlej was founded by Mikołaj Firlej in 1557. From the beginning the town has typical agriculture and handicraft character. The other owners of Firlej were the families of

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and

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. In 1839 the town belonged to the president of Bank Polski - Mr

Henryk Łubieński Henryk Jan Nepomucen Łubieński, Pomian coat of arms, (11 July 1793, in Prague – 17 September 1883, in Wiskitki, Poland) – was the scion of a Polish magnate family, landowner, financier, lawyer, early industrialist, economic activist, an ...

, who grounded the first factory of tools and agriculture machines in

area. Firlej took part also in uprising fights in 1831 and in 1863. The town had lost his rights because of

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of its citizens in 1869. Battles during World War I brought heavy damage to the town. In the first half of August 1920 in Firlej, marshal

Józef Piłsudski ), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) , death_date = , death_place = Warsaw, Poland , constituency = , party = None (formerly PPS) , spouse = , children = Wan ...

inspected the Polish troops going to the east.

World War II

During German Nazi occupation Firlej was an area of activity of A.K. division of captain T. Pośpiech. The town was liberated on July, 22. 1944 by the

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Agrotourism

The lack of large cities and industry in the area makes development of agrotourism and ecological farm very attractive. The picturesque rivers

Wieprz The Wieprz (, ; ua, Вепр, Vepr) is a river in central-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula. It is the country's ninth longest river, with a total length of 349 km and a catchment area of 10,497 km2, all within Poland. Its cour ...

and Tyśmienica, with numerous old basins, make this flat area attractive for recreation, especially water sports. For angling fans there are different sweet water fish like: perch, pike, eel, tench and others.

References

External links

Rootsweb.com

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Firlej Firlej is a village in Lubartów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Firlej. It lies approximately north-west of Lubartów and north of the regional capital Lubli ...

Lublin Governorate