Tomaszów Lubelski
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Tomaszów Lubelski Tomaszów Lubelski County.
History
The town was founded at the end of the 16th century by
Bełz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of Poland. The area around the city saw serious fighting in 1914 during World War I.[3]
On September 17–26, 1939, during the joint German-Soviet
Bełżec extermination camp located a few km. south of the town. The Jewish community ceased to exist.[4]
In 1975–1998, the town was administratively located in the Zamość Voivodeship.
Education
In the town there are two faculties of
gymnasiums
and two primary schools.
Culture
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International Folk Festival Roztocze is a popular annual music festival organized since 1990. Since 2008 the town council organizes reconstructions of Battle of Tomaszów.
Sports
Tomaszów is the home for the football team Tomasovia.
Media
There are two main newspapers published weekly in Tomaszów Lubelski. First of them, ReWizje Tomaszowskie, is financed by the town council. Second of them, Tygodnik Tomaszowski, belongs to a private company.
Twin towns
Tomaszów Lubelski is twinned with:
Notable people
- Mordechai Yosef Leiner (1801–1854), Hasidic thinker
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, (1787–1859), Hasidic thinker
- Joanna Pacuła (born 1957), actress
- Leon Pinsker (1821–1891), Zionist activist
- Zygmunt Sochan (1909–1998), footballer and member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II
- Monika Skinder (born 2001), cross-country skier
- Marek Zub (born 1964), football manager
- Law and Justice
External links
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Notes
- ^ www.ideo.pl, ideo -. "Demographic Yearbook of Poland 2014".
- ^ "Polska w liczbach". Retrieved 2019-09-21.
- ^ "Historia miasta". Retrieved 2019-09-21.
- ^ "Virtual Sztetl". 2018-07-21.
- ^ "Catholic University of Lublin Official website".
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