Janów Lubelski
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Janów Lubelski ' is a town in 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...

. It has 11,882 inhabitants (2004).

Situated in the Lublin Voivodship (since 1999). It is the capital of Janów Lubelski County
Janów Lubelski County
Janów Lubelski 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 only town is Janów Lubelski, which lies ...

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It has a large hospital (Samodzielny Publiczny Zespół Zakładów Opieki Zdrowotnej). It also has several tourist attractions - buildings and churches from 17th-18th centuries.

The town was founded in 1640 at the site of an older village.
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