Przewodów Explained
Przewodów |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Hrubieszów |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Dołhobyczów |
Coordinates: | 50.4744°N 23.9275°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Elevation M: | 236 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 413 |
Registration Plate: | LHR |
Przewodów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dołhobyczów, within Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.[2] It lies approximately 15km (09miles) southwest of Dołhobyczów, 390NaN0 south of Hrubieszów, and 1290NaN0 southeast of the capital of the Voivodeship, Lublin. It is also about 1200NaN0 north of Lviv in Ukraine. The village is located in the historical region of Galicia.[3]
History
Missile strike
See main article: 2022 missile explosion in Poland. On the evening of 15 November 2022, the village was hit by a stray missile[4] of Ukrainian origin as a result of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing two people.[5] [6] [7]
Notes and References
- Web site: The village of Przewodów . polskawliczbach.pl . 15 November 2022 . Polish.
- Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal). 1 June 2008. Polish.
- Web site: Sokal (The early 1900s gazetteer of Austria-Hungary: Galizien) . 18 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090308/http://www.austriahungary.info/en/gazetteer1900/galizien/sokal . 19 February 2018 . dead .
- News: Morris . Loveday . November 16, 2022 . Border village in east Poland hit by deadly fallout from war next door . . December 2, 2022 . Przewodow, border village in Poland, hit by deadly fallout of Russia's war - The Washington Post... After a stray missile killed two local men, Przewodow, a village in east Poland, found itself at the center of fears about a direct conflict between Russia and NATO..
- Web site: 2022-11-15 . Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2 . 2022-11-15 . AP NEWS .
- News: Russian missiles kill two people in NATO member Poland, US intelligence official says . news.sky.com . 15 November 2022 . 15 November 2022.
- Web site: 2022-11-15 . No concrete evidence on who fired missile, Poland's Duda says . 2022-11-15 . Reuters . Warsaw.