Balin, Łódź Voivodeship
Village in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
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Balin [ˈbalin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poddębice, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1]
Balin | |
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Village | |
  Balin Location within Poland | |
| Coordinates: 51°55′56″N 18°48′44″E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Łódź |
| County | Poddębice |
| Gmina | Poddębice |
| Population | |
• Total | 110 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | EPD |
| National roads |  |
| Voivodeship roads |  |
History
Balin was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Szadek County in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, on 8 September 1939, German troops carried out a massacre of 21 Polish farmers in Balin (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3] During the subsequent German occupation, in 1942, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then enslaved as forced labour in the area.[4]
