Gmina Terespol
Gmina Terespol is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. Its seat is the town of Terespol, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.
The gmina covers an area of 141.31 square kilometres (54.6 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 7,037.
The gmina contains part of the protected area called Podlasie Bug Gorge Landscape Park.
Villages
Gmina Terespol contains the villages and settlements of Bohukały, Dobratycze-Kolonia, Kobylany, Kołpin, Koroszczyn, Kukuryki, Kużawka, Lebiedziew, Lechuty Duże, Lechuty Małe, Łęgi, Łobaczew Duży, Łobaczew Mały, Małaszewicze, Małaszewicze Duże, Małaszewicze Małe, Michalków, Murawiec, Neple, Podolanka, Polatycze, Samowicze, Starzynka, Zastawek and Żuki.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Terespol is bordered by the town of Terespol and by the gminas of Kodeń, Piszczac, Rokitno and Zalesie. It also borders Belarus.
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Terespol
Terespol [tɛˈrɛspɔl] is a town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus. It has 6,002 inhabitants (2004).
Overview
Since 1999 Terespol has been within Biała Podlaska County in Lublin Voivodeship. Between 1975 and 1998 it belonged to Biała Podlaska Voivodeship. The town is a busy border crossing between Poland and Belarus on the European route E30 which links Berlin-Warsaw-Minsk-Moscow. Another crossing into Brest is located at Kukuryki northwest of Terespol. There's also a local train between Brest, Belarus and Terespol. It comes 3 times a day. The trip takes 18 minutes and is a very comfortable way of crossing border between Belarus and Poland.
Around Terespol one can find some of the old fortifications that were once part of the Brest Fortress.
Terespol features in a novel by the Yiddish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat (1950), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to Warsaw from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study.
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