query: located_in_the_administrative_territorial_entity radwan
supports: Gmina Szczucin is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Dbrowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the town of Szczucin, which lies approximately north of Dbrowa Tarnowska and east of the regional capital Kraków. (Szczucin gained town status on 1 January 2009  prior to that the district was classed as a rural gmina.) Kraków, also Cracow or Krakow, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life and is one of Poland's most important economic hubs. It was the capital of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1038 to 1569; the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1795; the Free City of Kraków from 1815 to 1846; the Grand Duchy of Cracow from 1846 to 1918; and Kraków Voivodeship from the 14th century to 1998. It has been the capital of Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. Lesser Poland Voivodeship (in Polish, "województwo maopolskie" ), also known as "Maopolska Voivodeship" or "Maopolska Province", is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,267,731 (2006). Tarnów Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 19751998, superseded by a much larger Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Its capital city was Tarnów. Located in southeastern part of the country, its area was 4,151 km. (which was 1.3% of the total area of Poland). In 1975 the population was 577,900, in 1998 it grew to 700,800. Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe, situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges (the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains) in the south. Bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world, the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, and its capital and largest city is Warsaw. Other metropolises include Kraków, Wrocaw, Pozna, Gdask and Szczecin. Tarnów ( "") is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants as of June 2009 (metro area 269,000 inhabitants). The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east-west connection from Lviv to Kraków. Also from Tarnów two additional lines depart: a southward railway line to the Slovak border via Stróe, as well as a minor northward line to Szczucin (now defunct). Kraków Voivodeship, refers to several historical Voivodeships of Poland in the surrounding regions, with the city of Kraków as its capital.
  1975-1998.
  Kraków Voivodeship 1975-1998 also named (197584) Kraków Metropolitan Voivodeship ("") was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 19751998, superseded by Lesser Poland Voivodeship. President of the Kraków City was also the voivodeship governor. The gmina (Polish pronunciation , plural "gminy" ) is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a commune or municipality. As of 2010 there were 2,478 gminy throughout the country. The word "gmina" derives from the German word "Gemeinde", meaning "community." The Grand Duchy of Cracow was created after the incorporation of the Free City of Cracow into Austria on November 16, 1846. The title of Grand Duke of Cracow was just a part of the official titulary of the Emperor of Austria in 18461918. The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Latin: "Corona Regni Poloniae"), or simply the Crown, is the common name for the historic (but unconsolidated) Late Middle Ages territorial possessions of the King of Poland, including Poland proper. A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world. The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, formally the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after 1791 the Commonwealth of Poland, was a dualistic state, a bi-confederation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch, who was both the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania. It was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th- and 17th-century Europe. At its peak in the early 17th century, the Commonwealth spanned some and sustained a multi-ethnic population of 11 million. The union was formalized by the Union of Lublin in July 1569, but the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were in a de-facto personal union since 1386 with the marriage of the Polish queen Hedwig and Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila, who was crowned King "jure uxoris" Wadysaw II Jagieo of Poland. The First Partition of Poland in 1772 and the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 greatly reduced the nation's size and the Commonwealth disappeared as an independent state following the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. Szczucin is a town in Dbrowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Szczucin. It lies approximately north-east of Dbrowa Tarnowska, north of Tarnów and east of the regional capital Kraków. The town has a population of 4,069. Dbrowa Tarnowska is a town in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, about north of Tarnów. It is the capital of Dbrowa County. Before reorganization (in 1999) Dbrowa Tarnowska was part of Tarnów Voivodeship (19751998). Population is 11,402 (2008). Dbrowa Tarnowska has a rail station on the minor line which joins Tarnów and Szczucin. Radwan ( radvan ) is a rural village . It lies approximately 6 kilometres ( 4 mi ) south of Szczucin , 11 km ( 7 mi ) north - east of Dbrowa Tarnowska , and 83 km ( 52 mi ) east of the regional capital Kraków . The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków (Cracow) with its Territory, more commonly known as either the Free City of Kraków or Republic of Kraków, was a city republic created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which included the city of Kraków and its surrounding areas. It was controlled by its three neighbours (Russia, Prussia, and Austria). It was a center of agitation for an independent Poland. In 1846, in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Kraków Uprising, it was annexed by the Austrian Empire. It was a remnant of the Duchy of Warsaw, which was partitioned between the three states in 1815. It was an overwhelmingly Polish-speaking city-state; of its population 85% were Catholics, 14% were Jews while other religions comprised less than 1%. The city of Kraków itself had a Jewish population reaching nearly 40%, while the rest were almost exclusively Polish-speaking Catholics. Lesser Poland (Polish: "Maopolska", Latin: "Polonia Minor") is a historical region ("dzielnica") of Poland; its capital is the city of Kraków. Dbrowa County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the town of Dbrowa Tarnowska, which lies east of the regional capital Kraków. Its only other town is Szczucin, lying north of Dbrowa Tarnowska.
candidates: austria central czech republic district duchy of warsaw dąbrowa county east europe gdańsk germany gmina szczucin kingdom of poland kraków lesser poland voivodeship lithuania lublin lviv most north of poland poznań russia south tarnów ukraine vienna warsaw west
answer: gmina szczucin