Opole Lubelskie
Encyclopedia
Opole Lubelskie o is a town in eastern Poland
. It has 8,879 inhabitants (2004). The town is situated in the Lublin Voivodeship
, some 10 kilometers east of the Vistula
river. It is the capital of the Opole Lubelskie County
. It was founded in the 14th century.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. It has 8,879 inhabitants (2004). The town is situated in the 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....
, some 10 kilometers east of the Vistula
Vistula
The Vistula is the longest and the most important river in Poland, at 1,047 km in length. The watershed area of the Vistula is , of which lies within Poland ....
river. It is the capital of the Opole Lubelskie County
Opole Lubelskie County
Opole Lubelskie County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the town of Opole Lubelskie, which lies ...
. It was founded in the 14th century.
Sights
- UFO-memorial Emilcin at the village EmilcinEmilcinEmilcin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Opole Lubelskie, within Opole Lubelskie County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Opole Lubelskie and west of the regional capital Lublin....
, belonging to Opole Lubelskie.