Kąkolewnica | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lublin |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Radzyń Podlaski |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Kąkolewnica Wschodnia |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 51.9333°N 65°W |
Population Total: | 680 |
Kąkolewnica is a village in Radzyń Podlaski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kąkolewnica.[1] It lies approximately 18km (11miles) north of Radzyń Podlaski and 770NaN0 north of the regional capital Lublin.
Kąkolewnica became a unified village on 1 January 2011, formed from the formerly separate villages of Kąkolewnica Północna, Kąkolewnica Południowa, Kąkolewnica Wschodnia (north, south and east Kąkolewnica) and Rudnik.
Kąkolewnica was the location of the communist killing fields at Uroczysko Baran – known in Poland as the "Little Katyn" – perpetrated during the advancement of the Red Army across the Polish territories in 1944–1945.