Bolimów

Infobox Settlement
name = Bolimów
settlement_type = Village
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Łódź
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Skierniewice County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Bolimów
latd = 52
latm = 4
lats = 35
latNS = N
longd = 20
longm = 9
longs = 47
longEW = E
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population_total = 930
website = http://www.bolimow.pl

Bolimów IPA-pl| [|b|o|'|l|i|m|u|f|] is a village in Skierniewice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bolimów. It lies approximately convert|14|km|mi|0 north of Skierniewice and convert|58|km|mi|0|abbr=on north-east of the regional capital Łódź.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 930. It gives its name to the protected area known as Bolimów Landscape Park.

Its history dates back to at least the 15th century, when it was considered a town, but it lost its city rights around 1870.

It was the place where poison gas weapons were used for the first time, during First World War, when on 31 January 1915, during the Battle of Bolimov, the German army shelled Russian army positions with xylyl bromide; the attack was relatively unsuccessful due to low temperature which prevented the gas from vaporising and spreading.Nick Cornish, "The Russian Army 1914-18", Osprey Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1841763039, [http://books.google.com/books?id=m6F2_4BDSm0C&pg=PA6&dq=Cracow+Russian+1914&as_brr=3&ei=XbLZRqSSDYi67gL1jJ3vBQ&sig=kNSwB759afWeAtI_WSZf57veXE0 Google Print, p.6] ] [ [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/F/firstworldwar/cont_harbinger_3.html "The First World War"] (a Channel 4 documentary based on the book by Hew Strachan)] [cite web
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title = The Battle of Bolimov, 1915
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date = 2005-12-22
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A much larger attack with poison gas occurred in the nearby area on 31 May 1915, and Russian army suffered much higher casualties (over several thousand dead).

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