Janowiec is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Puławy County __NOTOC__ Puławy County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was first established in 1867, but its current borders were established on January 1, 1999, as a result of t ...

Lublin Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part of the country, with its capital being the city of Lublin. The region is named after its largest city and regional capital, Lu ...

, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called Gmina Janowiec. It lies approximately south-west of

Puławy Puławy (, also written Pulawy) is a city in eastern Poland, in Lesser Poland's Lublin Voivodeship, at the confluence of the Vistula and Kurówka River, Kurówka Rivers. Puławy is the capital of Puławy County. The city's 2019 population was Cen ...

and west of the regional capital

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History

It received its town charter in 1537, but lost it in 1870. The ruins of a large castle are nearby. The 6th Polish National Cavalry Brigade was stationed in Janowiec in 1792. Janowiec. Ogolny widok od ruin zamku. 1914-1918 (69711133) (cropped).jpg, Janowiec, 1914-1918 Janowiec nad Wisla, fragment ulicy 1939 (67738933) (cropped).jpg, Church, 1939 Ruines du chateau de Janowiec post 1857 (5568615) (cropped).jpg, Castle, after 1857 Pocztowka - Janowiec. Ruiny zamku post 1906 (69711491) (cropped).jpg, Castle, after 1906

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External links

Janowiec at Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
Populated places on the Vistula Villages in Puławy County 1537 establishments in Europe {{Puławy-geo-stub