Liw l 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 the administrative district of Gmina Liw

Gmina Liw

Gmina Liw is a rural gmina in Węgrów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It takes its name from the village of Liw...

, within Węgrów County

Wegrów County

Węgrów County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Węgrów, which lies east...

, Masovian Voivodeship

Masovian Voivodeship

-Administrative division:Masovian Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties : 5 city counties and 37 "land counties"...

, in east-central Poland. It lies on the river Liwiec

Liwiec

The Liwiec is a river in Poland, in the plains of Southern Podlaskie Voivodeship and central Masovian Voivodeship. It is 126 kilometres long and drains 2779 square kilometres. Its source is located to the north-west of Międzyrzec Podlaski near Siedlce and crosses Wyszków, Liw, Węgrów and Stara Wieś...

 (also sometimes called the Liw), approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Węgrów

Wegrów

Węgrów is a town in eastern Poland with 12,561 inhabitants . Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , it is the capital of Węgrów County.First mentioned in historical records in 1414, it received its citycharter in 1441...

 and 68 km (42 mi) east of Warsaw

Warsaw

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Liw was formerly a town; it received town rights in 1421 or earlier, and between 1493 and 1789 there were two separate towns, Liw Stary ("Old Liw") and Liw Nowy ("New Liw"). Liw lost its status as a town in 1866 while under Russian rule, following the town's participation in the January Uprising

January Uprising

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. There had also been a Battle of Liw in April 1831 during the November Uprising

November Uprising

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, which led to the Russian forces withdrawing across the Liwiec.

The village has a population of 920. It has a Gothic

Gothic architecture

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 castle (originally built by the Masovian princes before 1429) and a neo-Gothic church (built 1905–1907).