Lubaczów

Lubaczów grew beside a fortified settlement in the borderlands of Red Ruthenia. A wooden castle stood here by the mid-fourteenth century, and in 1376 Władysław Opolczyk authorised the foundation of a town under Magdeburg law. Lubaczów became the centre of a district associated with the land of Belz. Its castle and the surrounding royal estate remained a seat of local authority; in the eighteenth century the starost's holdings included three towns and numerous villages.