Klwów is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Przysucha County __NOTOC__ Przysucha 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 19 ...

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, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Klwów __NOTOC__ Gmina Klwów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Przysucha County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Klwów, which lies approximately north of Przysucha and south of Warsaw. The gmina co ...

. It lies in historic

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, approximately north of

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and south of

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. Klwów is located in the southern part of the Masovian Plain, and its average altitude is 164 metres (540 ft) above sea level. It was granted town privileges in 1413 from King Jogaila, but lost that status after the

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in 1863. According to a legend, its name probably comes from the city of

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, as Klwów was located on a merchant route towards this city ("ku Lwowu"). After receiving the town charter in 1413, King Jogaila allowed the residents of Klwów to organize weekly markets and two

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s a year. This privilege was confirmed by Kings

Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; ; Lithuanian: ; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under ...

(1458), and

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(1686). In the

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and the

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, Klwów belonged to Lesser Poland's

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. It remained a small town; in 1662 its population was approximately 370, living in 26 houses. After the

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it belonged to the Russian-controlled

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, and in 1827 had a population of 898. Klwów lost its town charter after the

(either in 1863 or 1867). The village has ruins of a 13th-century castle, and a parish church built in 1491.

External links

Jewish Community in Klwów
on Virtual Shtetl

References

{{Gmina Klwów Villages in Przysucha County