Obora [ɔˈbɔra] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniezno, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north-west of Gniezno and 46 km (29 mi) north-east of the regional capital Poznań.
Obora
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Village
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  Obora
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| Coordinates: 52°34′N 17°32′E / 52.567°N 17.533°E / 52.567; 17.533 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Gniezno |
| Gmina | Gniezno |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | PGN |
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As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. Obora was a private church village, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
On September 11, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, German troops carried out a massacre of 22 Poles from the region, incl. from Obora itself, in the village (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3] During the subsequent German occupation, in 1939, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then placed in a transit camp in nearby Gniezno, and afterwards deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4]
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