Lubartów

Infobox Settlement
name = Lubartów

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imagesize = 250px
image_caption = Town center
image_shield = POL Lubartów COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lublin
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Lubartów County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Lubartów (urban gmina)
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Jerzy Zwoliński
established_title = Established
established_date = 1543
established_title3 = Town rights
established_date3 = 1543
area_total_km2 = 13.91
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 22950
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 51 | latm = 28 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 22 | longm = 36 | longs = | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 21-100
area_code = +48 81
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = LLB
website = http://www.lubartow.pl Lubartów [IPA-pl|l|u|'|b|a|r|t|u|f] is a town in eastern Poland, with 23,000 inhabitants (2004), situated in Lublin Voivodeship. It is the capital of Lubartów County and the Lubartów Commune.

History

It was established in 1543 by Piotr Firlej under a founding order issued by King Sigismund the Old. As well as being important economically, the town was a center of Protestant culture and education. From its foundation until World War II, the town also had a large Jewish community, numbering nearly half of the population in the 1930's. However nearly the entire community was destroyed during the war.

Lubartów was a bilingual town for most of its history, Polish and Yiddish being both widely used. Polish was used among non-Jews as well as for most communication between Jewish and non-Jewish townspeople, while Yiddish was the everyday language of the town's Jewish inhabitants.

The town's original Polish name was "Lewartów" (pronounced [lɛ'vartuf] ) until 1744, when it was changed to Lubartów. Yiddish, however, retains the original name "Lewartów" to this day (but pronounced ['lɛvatof] ).

Partner towns:

* Hajdudorog, Hungary
* Raseiniai, Lithuania

Noted residents:

*Klemens Junosz Szaniawski
*Agata Budzyńska
*Bolesław Prus
*Honorat Koźmiński
*Jan Kochanowski
*Ludwik Stanisław Liciński
*Rafał Patyra
*Paweł Wilkowicz
*Bogdan Kacmajor

ee also

*Lubartów Ghetto
* Sanguszko family
*Coat of arms of Lewart
*Lewart Lubartów - football club
*Wieprz

External links

* [http://www.lubartow.com.pl/ Lubartów portal]