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Gmina Adamów, Łuków County

rural gmina of Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ2102107 ↗
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Gmina Adamów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Adamów, which lies approximately 21 kilometres (13 mi) south-west of Łuków and 60 km (37 mi) north of the regional capital Lublin.

The gmina covers an area of 98.89 square kilometres (38.2 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 5,801.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Adamów is bordered by the gminas of Jeziorzany, Krzywda, Nowodwór, Serokomla, Ułęż and Wojcieszków.

Villages

The gmina contains the following villages with the status of sołectwo: Adamów (divided into 2 sołectwos: Adamów I and Adamów II), Budziska, Dąbrówka, Ferdynandów, Gułów, Helenów, Hordzieżka, Kalinowy Dół, Konorzatka, Lipiny, Sobiska, Turzystwo, Władysławów, Wola Gułowska, Zakępie and Żurawiec.

There is one village without sołectwo status: Natalin, which belongs to the sołectwo of Żurawiec.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gmina, Adamów and Łuków can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gmina Adamów, Łuków County” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.