Horodło ( [xɔˈrɔdwɔ] ) is a village in Hrubieszów County , Lublin Voivodeship , in eastern Poland , on the border with Ukraine . It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Horodło . It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) north-east of Hrubieszów and 111 km (69 mi) east of the regional capital Lublin .
2-701: The village has a current population of 1,200. The Union of Horodło was signed there in 1413. It was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Bełz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province . During the late-18th-century Partitions of Poland , it was annexed by Austria . Following the Polish victory in the Austro-Polish War of 1809, it was regained by Poles and included within
4-520: The short-lived Duchy of Warsaw , and after its dissolution in 1815, it passed to the Russian Partition of Poland. A large Polish patriotic demonstration took place here in 1861. After World War I , Poland regained independence and control of Horodło. Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by Germany until 1944. During
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