Burzec | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lublin |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Łuków |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Wojcieszków |
Coordinates: | 51.7833°N 38°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 850 |
Burzec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wojcieszków, within Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 4km (02miles) north-west of Wojcieszków, 170NaN0 south-west of Łuków, and 640NaN0 north of the regional capital Lublin.[1]
In the years 1975-1998 the town administratively belonged to the Siedlce Voivodeship.
In Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel The Deluge, the village is mentioned in the eleventh chapter as belonging to Jan Skrzetuski.[2]
In the interwar period, Sienkiewicz's cousin Stefan Dmochowski lived in the local manor, as well as his brother Roman, the owner of the village Sarnów.[3]