Jurgów

Jurgów [ˈjurɡuf] (Slovak: Jurgov) is a village in the Spisz region of southern Poland, near the border with Slovakia and the town of Bukowina Tatrzańska, on the Białka river.

[1] It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) east of Bukowina Tatrzańska, 15 km (9 mi) north-east of Zakopane, and 81 km (50 mi) south of the regional capital Kraków.

At that time it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, although the owner of the area was then a Polish magnate Olbracht Łaski.

The documents from the period 1589-1595 related to the sale of the Niedzica possessions by Olbracht Łaski to György Horváth, the village is mentioned in Hungarian as Gyurgow.

[2] After the I World War in when the Austria-Hungary ceased to exist, the village became part of newly independent Poland.