Janowiec j is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship

Lublin Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Lublin Voivodeship is divided into 24 counties : 4 city counties and 20 land counties. These are further divided into 213 gminas....

, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Janowiec

Gmina Janowiec

Gmina Janowiec is a rural gmina in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Janowiec, which lies approximately south-west of Puławy and west of the regional capital Lublin....

. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Puławy and 49 km (30 mi) west of the regional capital Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

. The village has a population of 1,000.

It received its town charter in 1537, but lost it in 1870. The ruins of a large castle are nearby.

External links

• Janowiec at Jewish Records Indexing - Poland