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Gmina Miedzna

rural gmina of Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ2273360 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gmina Miedzna is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Węgrów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Miedzna, which lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Węgrów and 80 km (50 mi) east of Warsaw.

The gmina covers an area of 115.78 square kilometres (44.7 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 4,102 (4,033 in 2013).

Villages

Gmina Miedzna contains the villages and settlements of Glina, Miedzna, Międzyleś, Orzeszówka, Poszewka, Rostki, Tchórzowa, Ugoszcz, Warchoły, Wola Orzeszowska, Wrotnów, Wrzoski, Żeleźniki and Zuzułka.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Miedzna is bordered by the town of Węgrów and by the gminas of Kosów Lacki, Liw, Sokołów Podlaski and Stoczek.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gmina Miedzna” as rural gmina of Poland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gmina, Miedzna and rural can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rural gmina of Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2273360. Authority coordinates are 52.467, 22.089. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gmina Miedzna” 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.