Urzędów

Urzędów lies on the Urzędówka among the hills of the Lublin Upland. On the merchant road from Kraków through Lublin toward Lithuania, it grew into one of the principal towns of eastern Lesser Poland. Władysław Jagiełło granted it Magdeburg rights in 1405, founding the town in place of the villages of Zaborzyce and Skorczyce. In 1474 it became a county seat in the newly formed Lublin Voivodeship. War with Cossack and Swedish forces brought fire and decline in the mid-seventeenth century.