Grybów [ˈɡrɨbuf] (Ukrainian: Грибів, Hrybiv; Yiddish: גריבאוו-Gribuv; German: Grünberg, Grynberk (attested 1340)[1],[2];[3]) is a town in the Nowy Sącz County, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship of Poland, with 12,409 inhabitants (2005). It is located in the heartland of the Doły (Pits), and its average altitude is 370 metres above sea level, although there are some hills located within the confines of the city, Grybów has the steepest town square in medieval Europe.
Polish writer and traveler Kamil Giżycki was born at Grybów.
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- ^ prof. Maria Malec. Słownik nazw geograficznych Polski. 2003. WN PWN. 2007. ISBN 83-01-13857-2
- ^ prof. Stanisław Rospond. Słownik Etymologiczny Miast i Gmin. Ossolineum. Wrocław. 1984. ISBN 83-04-0190-9
- ^ "Thus the region adjoining the Carpathians and extending to a line Tarnów-Rzeszów-Jarosław, the hithero almost uninhabited regio pedemontana was settled by German-speaking Silesians and soon abounded in large Waldhufendorfer with Frankish hides and in towns whose German names were in many case identical with place-names in Silesia (Landskrone, Grunberg, Goerlitz [...] [in:] Göttinger Arbeitskreis. Eastern Germany. Holzner-Verlag, 1961. p. 79.
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Coordinates: 49°37′28″N 20°56′54″E / 49.62444°N 20.94833°E / 49.62444; 20.94833
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