Zamienice

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Zamienice
Coordinates: 51°19′N15°57′E / 51.317°N 15.950°E / 51.317; 15.950 Coordinates: 51°19′N15°57′E / 51.317°N 15.950°E / 51.317; 15.950
Country Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Voivodeship Lower Silesian
County Legnica County
Gmina Gmina Chojnów

Zamienice [zamjɛˈnit͡sɛ] (German : Samitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chojnów, within Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. [1] Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

German language West Germanic language

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.

Gmina Chojnów Gmina in Lower Silesian, Poland

Gmina Chojnów is a rural gmina in Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Chojnów, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.

Legnica County County in Lower Silesian, Poland

Legnica County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of 744.6 square kilometres (287.5 sq mi). Its administrative seat is the city of Legnica, although this city is not part of the county. The only towns in Legnica County are Chojnów and Prochowice.

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Zamienice

It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Chojnów, 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Legnica, and 79 kilometres (49 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Chojnów Place in Lower Silesian, Poland

Chojnów(listen) is a small town in Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is located on the Skora river, a tributary of the Kaczawa at an average altitude of 170 m (560 ft) above sea level. Chojnów is the administrative seat of the rural gmina called Gmina Chojnów, although the town is not part of its territory and forms a separate urban gmina. As of 2006 it had 14,389 inhabitants.

Wrocław Place in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Wrocław is a city in western Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly 350 kilometres (220 mi) from the Baltic Sea to the north and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Sudeten Mountains to the south. The population of Wrocław in 2018 was 639,258, making it the fourth-largest city in Poland and the main city of Wrocław agglomeration.

Notable people

Johann Wilhelm Ritter German physicist

Johann Wilhelm Ritter was a German chemist, physicist and philosopher. He was born in Samitz (Zamienice) near Haynau (Chojnów) in Silesia, and died in Munich.

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