Nowosiółki, Chełm County

Nowosiółki [nɔvɔˈɕuu̯kʲi] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełm, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

[1] It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north-west of Pokrówka (the gmina seat), 11 km (7 mi) west of Chełm, and 55 km (34 mi) east of the regional capital Lublin.

[2] From 1975 to 1998, the village was administratively attached to the Voivodeship of Chełm.

Initially, in 1564 the name appears as Nowosielce, as Nowoszolky in 1589, and as Nowosielce Chełmskie in 1796, then in modern times was transformed by derivation into Nowosiółki.

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