Podsarnie is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Raba Wyżna
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Gmina Raba Wyżna is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Raba Wyżna, which lies approximately north-west of Nowy Targ and south of the ...
, within
Nowy Targ County
Nowy Targ County ( pl, powiat nowotarski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish ...
,
Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopolskie ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of
3,404,863 (2019).
It was created on 1 ...
, in southern Poland. It lies approximately west of
Raba Wyżna, north-west of
Nowy Targ, and south of the regional capital
Kraków.
The village lies in the
drainage basin of the
Black Sea (through
Orava,
Váh and
Danube rivers), in the historical region of
Orava (Polish: ''Orawa'').
History
The area became part of Poland in the 10th or early 11th century, and later it passed to
Hungary. In 1880, Podsarnie, also known in the past as ''Sarnia'', had a population of 487, entirely
Polish
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by nationality.
It became again part of Poland following
World War I.
The local primary school is the first school in Poland to be named after
Lech Kaczyński and
Maria Kaczyńska
Maria Helena Kaczyńska (; ; 21 August 1942 – 10 April 2010) was the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of President Lech Kaczyński. She and her husband died in the plane crash in the Russian city of Smolensk.
Early and per ...
, presidential couple that perished in the
Smolensk air disaster on 10 April 2010.
References
Villages in Nowy Targ County
Orava (region)
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