Klimontów, Sandomierz County

Infobox Settlement
name = Klimontów
settlement_type = Village
total_type =


image_shield =Gmina klimontow herb.svg


subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Świętokrzyskie
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Sandomierz
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Klimontów
latd = 50
latm = 39
lats = 23
latNS = N
longd = 21
longm = 27
longs = 10
longEW = E
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
elevation_m =
population_total = 2000
website = http://klimontow.pl/

Klimontów IPA-pl| [|k|l|i|'|m|o|n|t|u|f|] is a village in Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Klimontów. It lies approximately convert|22|km|mi|0 west of Sandomierz and convert|65|km|mi|0|abbr=on south-east of the regional capital Kielce.cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=Polish] The village has a population of 2,000.

The village was founded by Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński in 1604.

Klimontów was the birthplace of Bruno Jasieński. Since 2002 the Brunonalia festival, named after Jasieński, is held every summer in Klimontów.

During 1914 and 1915, there were bloody battles in the region between Austrian and Russian troops. Fallen Austrian soldiers were buried in a parish cemetery.

The settlement had 6000 inhabitants in 1921, but in 1939 it dropped to 4500. After the German atrocities and extermination of the Jewish population, the number of inhabitants fell to 2200 by 1946.

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