Balin | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 51°55′56″N 18°48′44″E / 51.93222°N 18.81222°E / 51.93222; 18.81222 | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Łódź |
County | Poddębice |
Gmina | Poddębice |
Population | |
• Total | 110 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vehicle registration | EPD |
National roads | |
Voivodeship roads |
Balin [ˈbalin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poddębice, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) west of Poddębice and 48 km (30 mi) west of the regional capital Łódź.
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.[2]
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).[3] 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.[4]