Urzędów County () was a
(county) within Lublin Voivodeship in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...
(16th-18th centuries). Today,
Urzędów
Urzędów is a town in Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Urzędów. It lies in Lesser Poland, approximately north-west of Kraśnik and south-west of the re ...
belongs to the
Kraśnik County
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Kraśnik 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 ...
.
Urzedow County was created some time in the late 15th century, when
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 ...
was carved out of eastern part of
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 new voivodeship was made of three counties -
Lukow County,
Lublin County
Lublin 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 administrat ...
and Urzedow County, whose area in the late 16th century was 1028 sq. kilometers. Apart from Urzedow, it included such towns, as
Bilgoraj,
Krasnik,
Janow Lubelski,
Frampol,
Opole Lubelskie, and
Goraj. Urzedow became the seat of local administration (
starosta
Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', ) is a community elder in some Slavic lands.
The Slavic root of "starost" translates as "senior". Since the Middle Ages, it has designated an official in a leadersh ...
) because, in the 15th century,
sejmik
A sejmik (, diminutive of ''sejm'', occasionally translated as a ''dietine''; ) was one of various local parliaments in the history of Poland and history of Lithuania. The first sejmiks were regional assemblies in the Kingdom of Poland (before ...
s took place here.
By the second half of the 17th century, the area of Urzedow County grew to 3,293 sq. kilometers, because its boundary moved northwards, at the expense of neighboring Lublin County. At that time, such locations as
Opole Lubelskie,
Chodel,
Ratoszyn Pierwszy,
Wilkolaz and
Bychawa were annexed into Urzedow County.
The largest town of the county was Krasnik, whose population in the mid 17th century reached over 4,000 people, which made it second largest city of the voivodeship, after Lublin (with a population of 10,000 people). At the same time, Urzedow had a population of 2,000 people.
Urzedow County was disbanded after the
third partition of Poland (1795). In the
Duchy of Warsaw
The Duchy of Warsaw (; ; ), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a First French Empire, French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars. It initially comprised the ethnical ...
and Russian-controlled
Congress Poland
Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It was established w ...
, most of its territory belonged to Krasnik County and Bilgoraj County.
References
External links
History of Urzedow County
Former counties of Poland
History of Lublin Voivodeship
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