Tarnogród
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Biłgorajski | ||
| Gmina : | Tarnogród | ||
| Area : | 10.69 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 22 ' N , 22 ° 45' E | ||
| Height : | 208 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 3406 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 23-420 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 84 | ||
| License plate : | LBL | ||
Tarnogród is a town and seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name in the Powiat Biłgorajski of the Lublin Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
The place is located on a left tributary of Tanew in the Sandomir basin .
history
The royal city was established in 1567, from 1588 a private city in the Zamość family affidavit in the Przemyśler Land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship . During the first partition of Poland , Tarnogród became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804). From 1783 a town in the Zamosc district . It was ceded to the Duchy of Warsaw on October 14, 1809 as the only district in the First Partition of Poland . The new state border was 3 km west of Tarnogród. From 1815 it belonged to Congress Poland , as the seat of a powiat in the Lublin department . The city was inhabited by Poles, Ruthenians, Ukrainians and Jews. From 1866 it was in the powiat Biłgoraj . In 1870 Tarnogród was degraded to an osada , and from 1915 again a city. In 1918, after the end of the First World War , Tarnogród came to Poland. During the Second World War it belonged to the Lublin district in the Generalgouvernement . From 1975 to 1998 the city was part of the Zamość Voivodeship .
local community
In addition to the city of Tarnogród, the town-and-country community includes other localities with school authorities .
Personalities
- Chaim Halberstam (1793–1876), Hasidic rabbi
- Dorota Gruca (* 1970), Polish long-distance runner
- Stanisław Żmijan (* 1956), Polish politician ( PO ).
