Żurawlów is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Grabowiec
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Gmina Grabowiec is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Grabowiec, which lies approximately north-east of Zamość and south-east of the regional ...
, within
Zamość County
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Zamość County ( pl, powiat zamojski) 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 ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of
Zamość and south-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 ...
.
Chevron protest
In the summer of 2013, Żurawlów became the site of a protest against the American oil company
Chevron, as activists identifying as "Occupy Chevron" occupied an oil field near the town where Chevron planned to drill an exploratory well for
shale gas.
References
Villages in Zamość County
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