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Gmina Działoszyce is an urban-rural
gmina (administrative district) in
Pińczów County
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Pińczów County ( pl, powiat pińczowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...
,
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
The Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, also known as the Świętokrzyskie Province, and the Holy Cross Voivodeship ( pl, województwo świętokrzyskie ) is a voivodeship (province) of Poland situated in southeastern part of the country, in the histo ...
, in south-central
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. Its seat is the town of
Działoszyce
Działoszyce is a town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, with 882 inhabitants as of December 2021.
History
The town is located in historic Lesser Poland, and the earliest mention of Działoszyce in historical records comes from 1220. In ...
, which lies approximately south-west of
Pińczów
Pińczów is a town in southern Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, about 40 km south of Kielce. It is the capital of Pińczów County. Population is 12,304 (2005). Pińczów belongs to the historic Polish province of Lesser Poland, a ...
and south of the regional capital
Kielce.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 5,640 (out of which the population of Działoszyce amounts to 1,068, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 4,572).
The gmina contains part of the
protected area called
Kozubów Landscape Park.
Villages
Apart from the town of Działoszyce, Gmina Działoszyce contains the villages and settlements of
Biedrzykowice,
Bronocice,
Bronów,
Chmielów,
Dębiany,
Dębowiec,
Dziekanowice,
Dzierążnia,
Dziewięczyce,
Gaik,
Iżykowice,
Jakubowice,
Januszowice,
Jastrzębniki,
Ksawerów,
Kujawki,
Kwaszyn,
Lipówka,
Marianów,
Niewiatrowice,
Opatkowice,
Pierocice,
Podrózie,
Sancygniów,
Stępocice,
Sudół,
Świerczyna,
Sypów,
Szczotkowice,
Szyszczyce,
Teodorów,
Wola Knyszyńska,
Wolica,
Wymysłów,
Zagaje Dębiańskie and
Zagórze.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Działoszyce is bordered by the gminas of
Czarnocin,
Książ Wielki,
Michałów,
Pińczów
Pińczów is a town in southern Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, about 40 km south of Kielce. It is the capital of Pińczów County. Population is 12,304 (2005). Pińczów belongs to the historic Polish province of Lesser Poland, a ...
,
Racławice,
Skalbmierz,
Słaboszów and
Wodzisław.
References
Polish official population figures 2006* Dzialoszyce, Poland, is also where Jewish brothers were saved during World War II as depicted in the 2005 documentary film Hiding And Seeking by Menachem Daum - see PBS POV as via https://www.pbs.org/pov/hidingandseeking/film_description.php
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Dzialoszyce
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