Piszczac is a town in

Biała Podlaska County Biała (the feminine form of Polish ''biały'' 'white') may refer to: Cities and towns in Poland Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland) *Biała, Gmina Trzcianka * Biała, Gmina Wieleń * Biała, Kalisz County * Biała, Konin County Łód ...

, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Today it is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Piszczac Gmina Piszczac is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Piszczac, which lies approximately east of Biała Podlaska and north-east of the regional ca ...

. It lies approximately east of

Biała Podlaska Biała Podlaska ( la, Alba Ducalis) is a city in eastern Poland with 56,498 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the capital of Biała Podlaska Voivodeship (1975–1998). ...

and north-east of the regional capital

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...

. In 1530–1869, it was a town mentioned in old chronicles and in the

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of 1566, as Pieszczatka.

References

Cities and towns in Lublin Voivodeship Biała Podlaska County Brest Litovsk Voivodeship Siedlce Governorate Kholm Governorate Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939) {{BiałaPodlaska-geo-stub