Niebylec is a

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Strzyżów County __NOTOC__ Strzyżów County ( pl, powiat strzyżowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...

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, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Niebylec __NOTOC__ Gmina Niebylec is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Strzyżów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Niebylec, which lies approximately south-east of Strzyżów and south of t ...

. Niebylec lies in eastern part of historic

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, approximately south-east of

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and south of the regional capital

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. The village has a population of 594, and is located along National Road Nr. 9, which also makes Polish part of the

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Machowski family ( Abdank coat of arms). Jawornik received

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in 1509, due to efforts of Mikolaj Machowski of Machow. The town was part of Lesser Poland's

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, remaining a small location in the eastern outskirts of the province, close to the border with

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. In 1646, a new Roman Catholic church was built here by Niebylec's new owner, Janusz Romer. In the late 17th and the 18th centuries, the town belonged to several families. Niebylec was one of the centers of the

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, and in 1772 (see

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), it was annexed by the

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, as part of Galicia. In the 19th century, the number of Jews grew in Niebylec, and by the early 20th century, they made the majority of the population. Niebylec lost its charter in 1919, as it was too small to remain a town. During

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, Jewish population was decimated in the

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. The area of the village was a stronghold of the

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(AK), as part of AK's Rzeszow- South Inspectorate. In September 2019 Niebylec declared itself an "

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." Niebylec has a parish church, built in 1936–1943 on the spot of the location of the 1646 church. In the village there also is a synagogue (second half of the 19th century), which now houses a library. Furthermore, the village has a 15th-century manor house, rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a late 18th-century roadside chapel.

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