Nowosiółki is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Chełm Gmina Chełm is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Pokrówka, which lies approximately south-west of border Chełm and east of the regional capital Lublin. ...

, within

Chełm County Chełm County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pas ...

Lublin Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part of the country, with its capital being the city of Lublin. The region is named after its largest city and regional capital, Lu ...

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

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

(the gmina seat), west of

Chełm Chełm (; ; ) is a city in eastern Poland in the Lublin Voivodeship with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some from the border with Ukraine. The ...

, and east of the regional capital

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

. The population is 192 people (as of 2011).

History

From 1975 to 1998, the village was administratively attached to the

Voivodeship A voivodeship ( ) or voivodate is the area administered by a voivode (governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe. Voivodeships have existed since medieval times and the area of extent of voivodeship resembles that of a duchy in ...

. Since 1999 it has been part of the

Proper name

Initially, in 1564 the name appears as ''Nowosielce'', as ''Nowoszolky'' in 1589, and as ''Nowosielce Chełmskie'' in 1796, then in modern times was transformed by derivation into ''Nowosiółki.''

Demography

Demographic structure as of March 2011: As of September 1921, the village had 37 houses and 217 inhabitants, of whom: * 110 men and 107 women; * 132 Orthodox Christians, 85

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; * 131

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(

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), 86

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References

Villages in Chełm County {{Chełm-geo-stub