Balin, Łódź Voivodeship

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Balin

| settlement_type = Village

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Łódź

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Poddębice

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Poddębice

| pushpin_map = Poland

| coordinates = {{coord|51|55|56|N|18|48|44|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| elevation_m =

| population_total = 110

| registration_plate = EPD

| blank_name_sec2 = National roads

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| blank1_name_sec2 = Voivodeship roads

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}}

Balin {{IPAc-pl|'|b|a|l|i|n}} is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poddębice, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=pl}} It lies approximately {{convert|12|km|mi|0}} west of Poddębice and {{convert|48|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of the regional capital Łódź.

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.{{cite book|author= |title=Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany|year=1998|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk|page=3}}

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).{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=IPN|page=94}} 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.{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2017|title=Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=IPN|page=332|isbn=978-83-8098-174-4}}

References

Category:Villages in Poddębice County

Category:Sites of World War II massacres of Poles

Category:Sites of Nazi war crimes during the Invasion of Poland