Garbów

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Garbów is a village in Poland, on the Kurówka river, near the city of Lublin. As of 1998 it had ca. 2000 inhabitants, a mill and a sugar refinery. The village was first mentioned in 1326 as a seat of a separate parish. In 15th century it was a personal property of the Odrowąż clan. In 1785 it was sold to Jacek Jezierski, the castellan of Łuków and a marshall of the szlachta who made the village receive the Magdeburg Law. During the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 the town was a battlefield of the last skirmish between the forces of Muscovy and those of Poland. After that the town was annexed by Russia and its city status was withdrawn. Currently the village is formally divided onto two separate entities, the Garbów I and Garbów II. It is probable, that the two will be eventually merge and receive city charter again.

There are some notable tourist attractions in the village. Among them is an 18th century classicist palace, a facade of a 17th century church destroyed in 1915 and a Gothic revival church from early 20th century with a 1000 kilogrammes bell from 1512.