Burzec
Village in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
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Burzec [ˈbuʐɛt͡s] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wojcieszków, within Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.[1]
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  Burzec | |
| Coordinates: 51°47′N 22°16′E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Lublin |
| County | Łuków |
| Gmina | Wojcieszków |
| Population | 850 |
In the years 1975-1998 the town administratively belonged to the Siedlce Voivodeship.
In Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel The Deluge, the village is mentioned in the eleventh chapter as belonging to Jan Skrzetuski.[2]
In the interwar period, Sienkiewicz's cousin Stefan Dmochowski lived in the local manor, as well as his brother Roman, the owner of the village Sarnów.[3]
