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Majdan Nowy, Biłgoraj County

village in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7067144 ↗
Source-derived summary

Majdan Nowy (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmajdan ˈnɔvɨ]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Księżpol, within Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

History

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, on June 24, 1943, from 28 to 36 inhabitants of Majdan Nowy, including women and children, were massacred by the German punitive expedition. The village was partially burned.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Majdan Nowy, Biłgoraj County” as village in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Majdan, Nowy and Biłgoraj can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7067144. Authority coordinates are 50.468, 22.749. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1943.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Majdan Nowy, Biłgoraj County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Majdan Nowy, Biłgoraj County primary sources, Majdan Nowy, Biłgoraj County archive and Majdan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Majdan Nowy, Biłgoraj County”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Majdan Nowy, Biłgoraj 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.