Góry Wysokie | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Świętokrzyskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sandomierz |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Dwikozy |
Coordinates: | 50.7444°N 21.7594°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | TSA |
Góry Wysokie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dwikozy, within Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 3km (02miles) north-west of Dwikozy, 70NaN0 north of Sandomierz, and 820NaN0 east of the regional capital Kielce.[1]
Góry Wysokie was a private village within the Polish Crown, owned by Polish nobility, administratively located in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in March 1940, Germans murdered 117 Poles from the region in the forest of Góry Wysokie (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3]