Gmina

Quick meaning: Gmina is a noun meaning commune; municipality; township; the smallest administrative territorial division and the first level of regional government in Poland.

Meaning

commune; municipality; township; the smallest administrative territorial division and the first level of regional government in Poland.

Example Sentences

Details of the growth rates of individual gminy are in Skorowidz gmin Rzeczypospolitej Polski, Statystyka Polski GSU, Series B, pt. 1, no. 8 (Warsaw, 1933), p. 61.

These institutions of self-government in the Polish countryside, initially designed to empower the peasantry at the expense of the manors, were gradually transformed into instruments of the ruling bureaucracy. Centralization and merger of gminy provided one means to this end. Of the 3,083 gminy in existence in 1864, only 1,287 remained forty years later. The contraction of gminy made it easier for centrally appointed county officials to interfere in local affairs.

Word Forms

• gminas
• gminy

Related Words

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