Gmina Tarnogród
Gmina Tarnogród is an urban-rural gmina in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Tarnogród, which lies approximately south of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital Lublin.
The gmina covers an area of, and as of 2006 its total population is 6,860.
History
Tarnogród was founded in 1567. The town and gmina owes its founding and its name to the Starosta of Krzeszów, Stanisław Tarnowski, who established it in 1567 in a place called by the local people “Cierniogród”, within the Krzeszów district in the Przemyśl Land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship.From 1588, Tarnogród became part of the estates of Jan Zamoyski and later developed into an important center of the Zamoyski Family Entail. In Polish history, Tarnogród is remembered as the site where the Tarnogród Confederation was formed in 1715 — a political and military alliance opposing the presence of Saxon troops in Poland and the policies of King Augustus II.
After the First Partition of Poland, Tarnogród came under Austrian rule and remained so until 1809, when — after being incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw — it became the capital of a newly created county in the Lublin Department, which included, among others, the towns of Biłgoraj, Frampol, Goraj, Zamość, and Krzeszów.
Tarnogród lost its county-town status in 1842, and in 1867 it was deprived of its municipal rights. From that year onward, it was part of Biłgoraj County and remained a large settlement — in 1906 it had about 7,000 inhabitants, and before World War II, around 5,000.
The years of World War II were tragic for the inhabitants of the town and municipality. More than half of the town's buildings were destroyed. In November 1942, the Nazis murdered about 2,000 local Jews, and the remaining ones were deported to extermination camps.
On June 30, 1943, the Nazis deported the Polish inhabitants of Tarnogród to transit camps, and later to forced labor in the Third Reich.
The war greatly worsened the town's condition, especially by drastically reducing its population. The number of residents fell even further after 1944, when the local Ukrainians were relocated to the USSR. As a result, in 1946, Tarnogród had only about 2,200 inhabitants.
Until 1954, the area of the present-day municipality was divided into two separate administrative units: Gmina Tarnogród and Gmina Wola Różaniecka.
On January 1, 1987, Tarnogród regained its municipal rights.
Villages
Apart from the town of Tarnogród, Gmina Tarnogród contains the villages and settlements of Bolesławin, Cichy, Jamieńszczyzna, Kolonia Różaniecka, Luchów Dolny, Luchów Górny, Pierogowiec, Popówka, Różaniec, Różaniec-Szkoła, Wola Różaniecka and Zagrody.| Rank | Name | Population | Men | Women |
| 1 | Tarnogród | 2,999 | 1,442 | 1,557 |
| 2 | Różaniec | 1,235 | 600 | 635 |
| 3 | Wola Różaniecka | 668 | 352 | 316 |
| 4 | Luchów Dolny | 547 | 278 | 269 |
| 5 | Luchów Górny | 542 | 292 | 250 |