Kurów
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- For the place of similar name in New Zealand see: Kurow
Template:Infobox Poland Kurów o l'ê un paize do sud-esta da Polonia, fra Puławy e Lublin, in-scio sciumme Kurówka. O l'ê a capitale de un "gmina" separòu into mezo do Voivòdòu de Lublin e o g'â 2811 abitanti (a-o 2005).
Fra o 1431 e o 1442 o paize o l'â riçevuo a concescion di diritti de çitæ basæ insce lezzi de Magdeburgo. Comme çitæ privâ al'ê stæto un centro de commercio de cibbo pe tutta a zòna d'in gìo. Inte-e zòne circostanti ean attive de manifatue de cheuio e pelle. Into 16mo secolo o l'ea un di centri do calvinismo. Da maniman, scinn-a ö 1660, molti di abitant se son convertî a-o arianeximo.
Da alantö o l'â condivizo a stòia de tutta a rexon. Dòppo a tersa spartision da Polònia into 1795, o l'ê stæto annesso a l' Austria. Into 1809 o l'ê diventòu parte do Ducòu de Varsavia, pe diventâ parte do Regno de Polònia into 1815. Inta Revolusion de Novembre, into Ffrevâ do 1831, gh'ê stæto unn-a battaglia minore, con e forse polacche sotta o generale Józef Dwernicki defeating the Russian units. After the January Uprising, in 1870 the town finally lost the city charter, never to regain it. Since 1918 it is again part of Poland.
During the Polish Defensive War, at the outbreak of World War II, on September 9, 1939, the town was heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe. Among the targets destroyed was a civilian hospital (marked with red crosses), where many victims perished. During the War, Germany set up two slave labour camps in the town. In 1942 also a minor ghetto was established there, but the majority of Poles imprisoned there managed to escape and joined the Home Army units operating in the forests nearby.
Among the notable tourist attractions is a renaissance church (refurbished in 1692) with a grave of the Zbąski family and sculptures by Santi Gucci (1587). It is also known as the birthplace of general Wojciech Jaruzelski.
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