Łuków

Łuków
Łuków
	Railroad station in Łuków
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	Łuków
	Coordinates: 51°55′N 22°23′E / 51.917°N 22.383°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lublin
County	Łuków County
Gmina	Łuków (urban gmina)
	Government
• Mayor	Dariusz Szustek
	Area
• Total	35.75 km2 (13.80 sq mi)
	Population (2006)
• Total	30,564
• Density	850/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	21-400
Car plates	LLU
Website	http://www.lukow.pl

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For other places with the same name, see Łuków (disambiguation).

Łuków is also the Sorbian name for Luckau in Germany.

Łuków [ˈwukuf] is a city in eastern Poland with 30,727 inhabitants as of January 1, 2005. Since 1999, it has been situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, previously it had been part of the Siedlce Voivodeship (from 1975–1998). It is the capital of Łuków County.

[edit] Early history

Łuków, which historically belongs to Lesser Poland, was established about 1233 as a stronghold guarding eastern border of Poland against Yotvingians and Lithuanians - tribes from the East. Between 1250 and 1257 Bolesław V the Chaste - a sovereign of Poland, a prince of Kraków and Sandomierz, located the Knights Templar in Łuków. Originally, it belonged to the Sandomierz Voivodeship, but in 1474, it became part of the Lublin Voivodeship (1474-1795). Łuków was incorporated as a city in 1403, by King Wladyslaw Jagiello.

[edit] Second World War

On 4 September 1939 the German Luftwaffe bombed Łuków's train station causing many civilian deaths as a result.

[edit] Transport

Łuków railway station is an important railroad junction, located on the strategic east-west line from Brest-Litovsk to Warsaw and Berlin. Other lines stemming from Łuków are the connections to Dęblin and to Skierniewice.