Olszyny, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Olszyny [ɔlˈʂɨnɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kamienna Góra, within Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

[1] It lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of Kamienna Góra and 85 km (53 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

After World War II, in 1945–1947, Poles expelled from Łanczyn in pre-war south-eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union settled in Olszyny.

[2] An agricultural cooperative was founded in the village in 1951.

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