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Józefów () is a town in east-central
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
, located in
Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...
, in
Otwock County __NOTOC__ Otwock County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...
. It lies about southeast of
Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
city centre and is a part of that city's metropolitan area. Located on a picturesque confluence of
Vistula The Vistula (; ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length. Its drainage basin, extending into three other countries apart from Poland, covers , of which is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra i ...
and Åšwider rivers, it is home to one landscape reserve and three natural reservation zones. it had 18,157 inhabitants.Jozefow.pl
Official website.
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File:ParafiaMBCwJozefowie.JPG, Church of the
Black Madonna of Częstochowa The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (; ), also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa () is a venerated icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary enshrined at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland. Pope Clement XI issued a Pontifical decree of canon ...
File:Kościół Jana Chrzciciela w Józefowie.jpg, Church of St
John the Baptist John the Baptist ( – ) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist ...
File:Gimnazjum nr. 1 Józefów - Mateusz Włodarczyk.jpg, Public gymnasium File:Komisariat Józefów.JPG , Police station


References


External links


Jewish Community in Józefów
on Virtual Shtetl

at Józefów homepage. {{Authority control Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Otwock County