Annopol AUD is a small town in south-eastern Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 with 2,679 (2004) inhabitants, in Kraśnik County

Krasnik County

Kraśnik County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. 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 Kraśnik, which lies south-west...

. It has been situated in the Lublin Voivodeship

Lublin Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Lublin Voivodeship is divided into 24 counties : 4 city counties and 20 land counties. These are further divided into 213 gminas....

  (since 1999) previously in Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship

Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship

Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded in parts by Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship. Its capital city was Tarnobrzeg....

 (1975-1998). It is also the birthplace of Dorota Barbara Jabłonowska, wife of Prince Józef Klemens Czartoryski

Józef Klemens Czartoryski

Prince Józef Klemens Czartoryski was a Polish nobleman . Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 1767...

 (1760-1844).

History

Annopol received city rights in 1761, lost them in 1869 and regained in 1969.

The coat of arms show St. Anna, the patron saint of the town (the name means "Anna's city", from Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

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