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Alternate names: Nowy Żmigród [Pol], Żmigród Nowy [Pol], Zhmigrod, זשמיגראד [Yid], Schmiedeburg [Ger], Żmigród, Zhmigrod Novy. [Not Żmigród (former Trachenberg) in Lower Silesia]. 49°37' N, 21°32' E, 37 miles SE of Tarnów, 36 miles SW of Rzeszów, 9 miles SSE of Jasło. Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), XIV, pp. 792-793: "Żmigród" #1. Jewish population: 1,240. Yizkor: Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland vol. 3: Western Galicia and Silesia (Jerusalem, 1984). Gmina Nowy Żmigród is a rural administrative district in Jasło powiat, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in SE Poland with its seat is the village of Nowy Żmigród, 17 km (11 mi) S of Jasło and 59 km (37 mi) SW of the regional capital Rzeszów. The gmina 2006 total population was 9,303. [July 2009]

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