Golina [ɡɔˈlʲina] (German: Gohlen am Warthe) is a town in Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 4,366 inhabitants (2004). It is located 12 km (7.5 mi) west from Konin.
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Coordinates: 52°15′48″N 18°6′43″E | |
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Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
County | Konin |
Gmina | Golina |
First mentioned | 12th century |
Town rights | 14th century |
Area | |
• Total | 3.57 km2 (1.38 sq mi) |
Population (2006) | |
• Total | 4,330 |
• Density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 62-590 |
Vehicle registration | PKN |
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Website | http://www.golina.pl/golina/ |
The town was mentioned in the Gesta principum Polonorum, the oldest Polish chronicle from the early 12th century.[1] It was granted town rights in the 14th century. It was a private town, administratively located in the Konin County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2] In 1793 Golina was annexed by Prussia as a result of the Second Partition of Poland.[3] Regained by Poles in 1807, as part of the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, in 1815 it became part of Congress Poland, later forcibly integrated with Imperial Russia. During the January Uprising, on March 16, 1863, a skirmish between Polish insurgents and Russian soldiers took place there. The Polish insurgent unit was attacked by Russian troops and forced to escape towards Lądek.[4] As part of anti-Polish repressions after the fall of the uprising, Golina was deprived of its town rights in 1870, which it regained in 1921, after Poland regained independence.[3] During the occupation of Poland (World War II) the Germans expelled most of its populace to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[3]
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