Tomaszów Lubelski [tɔˈmaʂuf luˈbɛlskʲi] is a town in south-eastern Poland with 19,365 inhabitants (2017).
[2] Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, near Roztocze National Park, it is the capital of Tomaszów Lubelski County.
The town was founded at the end of the 16th century by Jan Zamoyski as Jelitowo.
The town's Jewish community, which numbered over 5,600 in 1939 at the start of the war, was persecuted by the occupiers in the Holocaust.
In the town there are two faculties of Catholic University of Lublin (Legal and Economic Sciences).