Majdan Stary, Biłgoraj County

Majdan Stary (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmajdan ˈstarɨ]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Księżpol, within Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-west of Księżpol, 9 km (6 mi) south of Biłgoraj, and 87 km (54 mi) south of the regional capital Lublin.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, on July 3, 1943, around 75 inhabitants of Majdan Stary, including women and children, were massacred by the German punitive expedition.

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