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| Coordinates: 51°18′N 22°53′E / 51.300°N 22.883°ECoordinates: 51°18′N 22°53′E / 51.300°N 22.883°E | ||
| Country | Poland | |
| Voivodeship | Lublin | |
| County | Łęczna County | |
| Gmina | Gmina Łęczna | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Teodor Edwin Kosiarski | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 11.00 km2 (4.25 sq mi) | |
| Population (2014) | ||
| • Total | 19 780 | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 21-010 | |
| Car plates | LLE | |
| Website | www |
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Łęczna [ˈwɛnt͡ʂna] is a town in eastern Poland with 19,780 inhabitants (2014), situated in Lublin Voivodeship. It is the seat of Łęczna County and the smaller administrative district of Gmina Łęczna. The town is located in northeastern corner of historic province of Lesser Poland. Łęczna tops among the hills of the Lublin Upland, at the confluence of two rivers - the Wieprz, and the Świnka. On December 31, 2010, the population of the town was 20,706. Łęczna does not have a rail station, the town has been placed on a national Route 82 from Lublin to Włodawa. And shall be considered as a start point to Kameralne Pojezierze, as the town has decided to rebrand the lakeland district, from Pojezierze Łęczyńsko-Włodawskie, or Pojezierze Łęczyńskie, to Kameralne Pojezierze.
First documented mention of the village of Łęczna comes from the year 1252. At that time, the area east of Lublin (eastern borderlands of Lesser Poland) was sparsely populated, without any towns and with few villages, as the region was frequently raided by the Mongols, Tatars, Lithuanians, Yotvingians and East Slavs. This changed in the late 14th century, after the Union of Krewo (1385), when the Kingdom of Poland became allied with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (see also Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). In 1462, a local nobleman (see szlachta), Zbigniew z Łęcznej, sold the village to the Tęczyński family. Five years later, on January 7, 1467, Jan of Tęczyn, the castellan of Kraków, received the Magdeburg rights for the town of Łęczna (named after the village), on the Wieprz river. King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk issued the document in Kozienice, and Łęczna was strategically located on a hill, 175 m (574 ft) above sea level. Its first residents came from other town and villages of the region.
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