Piotrków Pierwszy 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 ...

in the administrative district of Gmina Jabłonna, within

Lublin County Lublin County ( pl, Powiat Lubelski) 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 reforms passed in 1 ...

Lublin Voivodeship The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, C ...

, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Jabłonna and south of the regional capital Lublin.

location

Piotrków lies on the Czerniejówka

Lublin Upland Lublin Upland () is a geographical region in southeastern Poland, located in Lublin Voivodeship, between the rivers Vistula and Bug, around the city of Lublin. Its area is about 7,200 km² and its highest elevation 314 m above sea level. It ...

. It is located in the central part of

in the Lublin district in the municipality of Jabłonna, at Voivodeship road 835. In the village there are: * Church; * Cultural Centre (GCK); * primary school; * Public high school; * public kindergarten; * Sports Club PLKS "Piotrcovia Piotrków"; * volunteer fire brigade; * stadium "Orlik" Close to the village is the hamlet Sacharin.

History

Piotrków existed in the early

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

. The former royal property and manage its tenant. In 1388, King Jogaila village moved to

Magdeburg rights Magdeburg rights (german: Magdeburger Recht; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within ...

. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

was the front here, the whole village was burned. When the front of the local people had gone to clean up the field with the corpses of soldiers flooded the Austro-Hungarian and Imperial Russian Army. Until today, there are remnants of trenches in the woods. In the village there are three war cemeteries from World War I.

References

Villages in Lublin County {{LublinCounty-geo-stub