Jagielnica

Jagielnica
Village
Jagielnica
Coordinates: 50°38′37″N 17°13′37″E / 50.64361°N 17.22694°E / 50.64361; 17.22694
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lower Silesian
County Strzelin
Gmina Przeworno
Population 110

Jagielnica [jaɡʲɛlˈnit͡sa] (German: Alt Jägel) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Przeworno, within Strzelin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1] Prior to 1945 it was in Germany. After World War II the region was placed under Polish administration and ethnically cleansed according to the post-war Potsdam Agreement. The native German populace was expelled and replaced with Poles.

It lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Przeworno, 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-east of Strzelin, and 56 kilometres (35 mi) south of the regional capital Wrocław.

The village has a population of 110. Named after another Jagielnica (Ukrainian: Ягільниця) in western Ukraine that was in Poland prior to 1939, by the people who moved from there to this former German territory after World War II.

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Coordinates: 50°38′37″N 17°13′37″E / 50.64361°N 17.22694°E / 50.64361; 17.22694


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