Chlebowo ( dsb, Namašklěb, german: Niemaschkleba, 1935-1945: Lindenhain, 1945-1953: Niemaszchleba) 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

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, within

Krosno Odrzańskie County __NOTOC__ Krosno Odrzańskie County ( pl, powiat krośnieński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland, on the German border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a resu ...

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, in western Poland, close to the

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border.

Geography

It lies on the northeastern rim of the historic

Lower Lusatia Lower Lusatia (; ; ; szl, Dolnŏ Łużyca; ; ) is a historical region in Central Europe, stretching from the southeast of the German state of Brandenburg to the southwest of Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. Like adjacent Upper Lusatia in the ...

region, approximately north-east of Gubin, west of

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, and west of

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History

The name of the village is possibly derived from Slavic ''chleb'' ("bread"). It was first documented as ''Schwchleb'' and ''Nemascleb'' in the 1295 '' Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis'' document by the

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. The settlement then was located at the eastern border of the German

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, close to the Silesian

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. The area was part of the Bohemian crown lands before it passed to the

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according to the 1635 Peace of Prague. Ceded to the

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, it was incorporated into the

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in 1815. Under

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rule, the village's name was Germanised to ''Lindenhain'' in 1937; after it fell to the

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according to the 1945

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(see ''

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''), it was renamed ''Niemaszchleba'' and again in 1953 Chlebowo.

References

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