Sobota (lit. "Saturday") 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 to ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Bielawy __NOTOC__ Gmina Bielawy is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Bielawy, which lies approximately west of Łowicz and north of the regional capital Łódź ...

, within

Łowicz County __NOTOC__ Łowicz County ( pl, powiat łowicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms ...

Łódź Voivodeship Łódź Voivodeship (also known as Lodz Province, or by its Polish name ''Województwo łódzkie'' ) is a province-voivodeship in central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Łódź Voivodeship (1975–1999) and the Sieradz ...

, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Bielawy, west of

Łowicz Łowicz is a town in central Poland with 27,896 inhabitants (2020). It is situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). Together with a nearby station of Bednary, Łowicz is a ma ...

, and north of the regional capital

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

. Sobota was the site of the

Battle of Sobota The Battle of Sobota was a battle that took place near Sobota, Poland, on 23 August 1655, between the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on the one hand and of Sweden on the other. After Charles X Gustav's entry into Poland, he m ...

(1655), when a Polish force failed to head off the advancing Swedish invading army. Wieś Sobota.jpg, Brick Gothic church
of Sts. Peter & Paul Wieś Sobota - kaplica.jpg, Wooden graveyard chapel
of the Transfiguration of the Lord

References

Villages in Łowicz County Łódź Voivodeship (1919–1939) {{Łowicz-geo-stub