Toplin is a village in the
administrative district of
Gmina Skomlin
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Gmina Skomlin is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Skomlin, which lies approximately south-west of Wieluń and south-west of the regional cap ...
, within
Wieluń County
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Wieluń County ( pl, powiat wieluński) 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 reform ...
,
Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of
Skomlin
Skomlin is a village in Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Skomlin. It lies approximately south-west of Wieluń and south-west of the regional capita ...
, south-west of
Wieluń, and south-west of the regional capital
Łódź.
History
The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Toplin was a private village of
Polish nobility
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
, including the
Potocki family,
administratively located in the
Sieradz Voivodeship
Sieradz Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Łódź Voivodeship.
A Voivodeship is an area administered by a voivode (Governor), and the Sieradz Voivodeshi ...
in the
Greater Poland Province. In 1827, it had a population of 198.
[
During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then young Poles were deported to ]forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
in Germany and German-occupied France
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, and others were deported to the General Government
The General Government (german: Generalgouvernement, pl, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, uk, Генеральна губернія), also referred to as the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (german: Generalgouvernement für die be ...
in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland. Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German
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**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy.[Wardzyńska, p. 255]
References
Villages in Wieluń County
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