Żurawnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zwierzyniec, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is a sołectwo of Gmina Zwierzyniec.[2]

Żurawnica
Village
Żurawnica is located in Poland
Żurawnica
Żurawnica
Coordinates: 50°39′05″N 22°57′41″E / 50.65139°N 22.96139°E / 50.65139; 22.96139
Country Poland
VoivodeshipLublin
CountyZamość
GminaZwierzyniec
Population
 (2011)[1]
786

History

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The village was recorded in 1563 as Żorawnica, similarly in 1564, and Żurawnica in 1827.[3] Żurawnica was a village under Vlach law at the beginning of the 16th century.[4] The private noble village of Żurawnica was located at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries in the Chełm Land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship.[5]

According to the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland in 1895, Żurawnica was a village in the Zamość district, Zwierzyniec commune, Szczebrzeszyn parish. Quoting from the note of the SgKP, "The village population is distinguished by character attributes". In the 1827 census, 64 houses and 321 inhabitants of the parish in Topolcza were listed in the village.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "GUS: Ludność - struktura według ekonomicznych grup wieku. Stan w dniu 31.03.2011 r." Archived from the original on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  2. ^ "Jednostki pomocnicze gminy Zwierzyniec". Urząd Gminy Zwierzyniec. Archived from the original on 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
  3. ^ Czopek, p. 205
  4. ^ Grzegorz Jawor, Osady prawa wołoskiego i ich mieszkańcy na Rusi Czerwonej w późnym średniowieczu, Lublin 2000, s. 212, 222.
  5. ^ Atlas historyczny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej wydany z zasiłkiem Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, [T. 1], Epoka przełomu z wieku XVI-ego na XVII-sty. Dział II-gi. "Ziemie Ruskie" Rzeczypospolitej, Dział opracowany przez Aleksandra Jabłonowskiego [...], k. 2.
  6. ^ "Żurawnica". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 14. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1895. p. 863.

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