Przeworsk

Market Town

Town Hall

Flag

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Przeworsk

Coordinates: 50°4′N 22°30′E / 50.067°N 22.500°E

Country

Poland

Przeworsk (urban gmina)

Government

• Mayor

Leszek Kisiel

Area

• Total

21.98 km² (8.49 sq mi)

Elevation

200 m (700 ft)

Population (2006)

• Total

15,747

• Density

720/km² (1,900/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

37-200

Car plates

RPZ

Website

http://www.przeworsk.um.gov.pl

Przeworsk [ˈpʂɛvɔrsk], (Ukrainian: Переворськ Perevors'k, Yiddish: פּרשעוואָרסק Prshevorsk‎) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 15,675 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. Since 1999 it has been in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, and is the capital of Przeworsk County. The ancient Przeworsk culture was named after the town.

Przeworsk was a settlement since the 10th century, though evidence of human settlement in the general area is even older. It is first mentioned in historical records from the 13th century, and was granted its town charter in 1394. From 1772 the town was part of the Habsburg Monarchy where it remained until 1918 when an independent Poland was created. Przeworsk is located on the European route E40, it also is an important railway junction, with trains going into three directions - east (towards Przemyśl), west (towards Rzeszów) and north (towards Stalowa Wola).

Przeworsk has some 60 historic buildings, including two defensive Gothic abbeys, a town hall, a Classicistic Lubomirski Palace, Baroque monastery, and an open-air museum (skansen). The town has the area of 22 square kilometres (8.5 square miles).

In the 13th century Ruthenian documents, Przeworsk was spelled Pereworesk. In the 14th and 15th centuries, it was called Preworsko, Przeworsko, Przeworszko, Przeworscho, Przeiworsko, Przyworsko and Prziborsko. Since the 15th century, the name Przeworsko was most often used.

The Pshevorsk Hasidic dynasty, which originated in Przeworsk, is now mainly located in Antwerp, Belgium.

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