Żabianka (

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: ) is a

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in the administrative district of

Gmina Ułęż __NOTOC__ Gmina Ułęż is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Ułęż, which lies approximately east of Ryki and north-west of the regional capital Lublin. Th ...

, within

Ryki County __NOTOC__ Ryki County () 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 passed in 1998. Its admi ...

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, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of

Ułęż Ułęż is a village in Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Ułęż. It lies approximately east of Ryki and north-west of the regional capital Lublin Lublin ...

, south-east of

Ryki Ryki is a town in the Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland, capital of Ryki County. It has 9,767 inhabitants (as of 2007). It is situated between Warsaw and Lublin. Ryki belongs to Lesser Poland, and historically is part of ''Ziemia Stężycka' ...

, and north-west of the regional capital

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. In 2011 it had a population of 122.

History

The village was first known as ''Wola Żabia'' before being renamed to ''Żabianka''. Historically, it was located within

Stężyca Land Stężyca Land ( Polish: ziemia stężycka) was an administrative unit, the so called ziemia, of both the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The land was composed of only one county, or powiat, and had its seat in the tow ...

Sandomierz Voivodeship Sandomierz Voivodeship (, ) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. It was part of the Lesser Poland region and the Lesser Poland Province. Originally Sandomier ...

. The first mention of the village in historical record is in a tax inventory from 1569, where a man called 'Lyeczki', possibly named after the nearby village of Lendo, paid tax on one

łan Lan ( Polish: ''łan'' ; German: ''Lahn''; Latin: ''laneus'') is an old unit of field measurement used in Poland. Since the 13th century, its value has varied from one location to another. A ''greater łan'' (also Franconian, King's, Old Poli ...

. In 1827 it had 12 houses and 109 inhabitants. By the end of the 19th century it had a

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, 12 houses, and its population was 83. Until the latter half of the 16th century the village belonged to the

Drążgów Drążgów (Polish language, Polish: , also ''Drzązgów'' or ''Drążków'') is a village, formerly a town, in the administrative district of Gmina Ułęż, within Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-e ...

parish. In 1570 Łukasz Lendzki, a local noble, erected a church there which, after a period of it being a filial church, was made the seat of the parish in 1575. This was because the old seat was converted into an

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congregation. The current wooden church was built in 1754 by Feliks Bentkowski, the Stężyca Land

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. The church underwent renovations in 1882, 1975–1976, and 2014; during the restoration works in 2014, a burial crypt was discovered under its floor.

References

Villages in Ryki County {{Ryki-geo-stub