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Luban

Lubań
Old town
Old town
Flag of Lubań
Flag
Coat of arms of Lubań
Coat of arms
Lubań is located in Poland
Lubań
Lubań
Coordinates: 51°07′N 15°18′E / 51.117°N 15.300°E / 51.117; 15.300
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lower Silesian
County Lubań County
Gmina Lubań (urban gmina)
Government
 • Mayor Arkadiusz Słowiński
Area
 • Total 16.12 km2 (6.22 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Total 22,137
 • Density 1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 59-800
Car plates DLB
Website http://www.luban.pl

Lubań [ˈlubaɲ] (German: Lauban) is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwest Poland. It is the administrative seat of Lubań County and also of the smaller Gmina Lubań (although it is not part of the territory of the latter, as the town is a separate urban gmina in its own right).

Situated north of the Jizera Mountains on the western shore of the Kwisa River, Lubań is part of the historic Upper Lusatia region. It is located about 25 km (16 mi) east of Zgorzelec/Görlitz and about 45 km (28 mi) northwest of Jelenia Góra. From 1975–1998 it was part of the former Jelenia Góra Voivodeship.

Lubań is a stop on the Polish sections of the Way of St. James pilgrimage route.

Lubań probably is at the site of a small settlement established by the West Slavic Milceni tribe in the 9th and 10th century, whose lands up to the Kwisa River from 927 on were gradually conquered by the German king Henry the Fowler and incorporated into the marca Geronis in 939. In 965 ill-defined the Milceni territory became part of the Imperial Margraviate of Meissen. In 1156 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa vested his ally, the Přemyslid duke Vladislaus II of Bohemia with the territory around Bautzen (Budissin) that later would be called "Upper Lusatia".


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