| Jeleniów | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
  Jeleniów | |
| Coordinates: 50°25′24″N16°15′26″E / 50.42333°N 16.25722°E Coordinates: 50°25′24″N16°15′26″E / 50.42333°N 16.25722°E | |
| Country |  |
| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian |
| County | Kłodzko |
| Gmina | Lewin Kłodzki |
| Population | 620 |
Jeleniów [jɛˈlɛɲuf] (German : Gellenau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lewin Kłodzki, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. [1] It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) west of Lewin Kłodzki, 29 kilometres (18 mi) west of Kłodzko, and 96 kilometres (60 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The village has a population of 620.
German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.
Gmina Lewin Kłodzki is a rural gmina in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Lewin Kłodzki, which lies approximately 27 kilometres (17 mi) west of Kłodzko, and 96 kilometres (60 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
Peter von Biron, last Duke of Courland and Semigallia died at Jeleniów Palace on January 13, 1800.
Peter von Biron was the last Duke of Courland and Semigallia, from 1769 to 1795.
The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was a duchy in the Baltic region that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and from 1569 to 1726 to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, incorporated into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Sejm in 1726, On 28 March 1795, it was annexed by the Russian Empire in the Third Partition of Poland.
