Zabełków | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Saint Hedwig Church | |
  Zabełków | |
| Coordinates: 49°56′N18°20′E / 49.933°N 18.333°E Coordinates: 49°56′N18°20′E / 49.933°N 18.333°E | |
| Country |  |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | Racibórz |
| Gmina | Krzyżanowice |
| Website | http://www.zabelkow.pl |
Zabełków [zaˈbɛu̯kuf] (formerly German Zabelkau, 1936–1945: Schurgersdorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzyżanowice, within Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the Czech border. [1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Krzyżanowice, 19 km (12 mi) south-east of Racibórz, and 60 km (37 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice. It has a population of about 750.
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 Krzyżanowice is a rural gmina in Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, on the Czech border. Its seat is the village of Krzyżanowice, which lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Racibórz and 60 km (37 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice.
Racibórz County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Racibórz, which lies 58 kilometres (36 mi) west of the regional capital Katowice. The county also contains the towns of Kuźnia Raciborska, lying 16 km (10 mi) north of Racibórz, and Krzanowice, 11 km (7 mi) south-west of Racibórz.
Józef Rymer, first Silesian voivode, was born here.
Józef Rymer (1882–1922) was a Polish and Silesian activist and politician.
Voivode or Vojvoda is an Eastern European title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. It derives from the word vojevoda, which in early Slavic meant the bellidux, i.e. the military commander of an area, but it usually had a greater meaning. In Byzantine times it referred to mainly military commanders of Slavic populations, especially in the Balkans, first Bulgaria being established as permanent Slavic state in the region. The title voevodas was first used in the work of the 10th-century Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos De Administrando Imperio to identify Hungarian military leaders.
