See also: Miętkie, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
Miętkie | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lublin |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Hrubieszów |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Mircze |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.65°N 72°W |
Miętkie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mircze, within Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) west of Mircze, 200NaN0 south of Hrubieszów, and 1100NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Lublin.
During the World War II, in March 1944, Turkowice was attacked by Polish partisans in reprisal for the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia carried out by Ukrainian nationalists. 105 Ukrainian villagers were murdered and 160 houses destroyed.[2]