Zdziary (until 2012 Ździary) is a

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in the administrative district of Gmina Jarocin, within

Nisko County __NOTOC__ Nisko County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in ...

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, in south-eastern

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. It lies approximately west of

Jarocin Jarocin () is a town in west-central Poland with 25,700 inhabitants (1995), the administrative capital of Jarocin County in Greater Poland Voivodeship. Jarocin is a historical town, having been founded and granted city rights in the 13th century. ...

, north-east of

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, and north of the regional capital

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History

As a result of the battles from

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, the fallen soldiers were buried in the village. On 10 July 1943, the

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and SS pacified the village. The Germans murdered Stefan Maśloch and deported about 30 residents to concentration camps. From 1975 to 1998, the village was administratively part of the

Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship The Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded in parts by Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship. ...

. On 1 January 2013, the village's name was standardized by changing the spelling to include the letter "Ź". At the initiative of the municipality, the name of the settlement was changed to Zdziary by a regulation from the Minister of Administration and Digitization, which was published at the end of the previous year.

LZS Zdziary

The village is a home for the LZS Zdziary

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team. As of the 2023–24 season, they compete in the regional league. In 2021, they reached the Subcarpathian-Stalowa Wola

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final.

References

Villages in Nisko County {{Nisko-geo-stub