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Gmina Turek is a rural
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...
(administrative district) in
Turek County,
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. The province is named after the region called Greater Poland (''Wielkopolska'' ). The modern province includes most of this historic re ...
, in west-central
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. Its seat is the town of
Turek, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 7,605.
Massacre during Second World War
During the German
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Second Polish Republic, Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak R ...
in 1939, German soldiers conducted a massacre in the area. 24 Poles were mass murdered on 7 September 1939.
[Szymon Datner "55 dni Wehrmachtu w Polsce" page 279] The victims were mostly farmers and refugees and elderly people(up to 80 years old).
Villages
Gmina Turek contains the villages and settlements of
Albertów,
Budy SÅ‚odkowskie,
Chlebów,
Cisew,
Cisew Mały,
Dzierżązna,
Grabieniec,
Kaczki Åšrednie,
Kalinowa,
Korytków,
Kowale Księże,
Obrębizna,
Obrzębin,
Pęcherzew
Pęcherzew is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Turek, within Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Turek and east of the regional capital Poznań
Poznań ...
,
Słodków,
Słodków-Kolonia,
Szadów Księży,
Szadów Pański,
Szadowskie Góry,
Turkowice,
Warenka,
Wietchinin,
WrzÄ…ca and
Żuki.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Turek is bordered by the town of
Turek and by the gminas of
Brudzew,
Dobra,
Kawęczyn,
Malanów,
Przykona,
Tuliszków and
Władysławów.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Turek
Turek County
Massacres in Poland
Sites of Nazi war crimes during the Invasion of Poland