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Gmina Łęczyca

rural gmina of Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ2460694
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Gmina Łęczyca is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Łęczyca, although the town is not part of the gmina's territory.

The gmina covers an area of 150.8 square kilometres (58.2 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population was 8,549.

Villages

Gmina Łęczyca contains the villages and settlements of Błonie, Borek, Borki, Borów, Bronno, Chrząstówek, Dąbie, Dobrogosty, Dzierzbiętów Duży, Dzierzbiętów Mały, Garbalin, Gawrony, Janków, Karkosy, Kozuby, Krzepocin Drugi, Krzepocin Pierwszy, Łęka, Łęka-Kolonia, Leszcze, Leźnica Mała, Liszki, Lubień, Mikołajew, Mniszki, Piekacie, Pilichy, Prądzew, Prusinowice, Pruszki, Siedlec, Siedlec-Kolonia, Siemszyce, Szarowizna, Topola Katowa, Topola Królewska, Topola Szlachecka, Wąkczew, Wichrów, Wilczkowice Dolne, Wilczkowice Górne, Wilczkowice nad Szosą, Wilczkowice Średnie, Zawada, Zawada Górna and Zduny.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Łęczyca is bordered by the town of Łęczyca and by the gminas of Daszyna, Góra Świętej Małgorzaty, Grabów, Ozorków, Parzęczew, Świnice Warckie, Wartkowice and Witonia.

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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, Łęczyca and rural can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2460694. Authority coordinates are 52.050, 19.200. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from Gmina Łęczyca” 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.