What is Żagań?
[[Image:POL Żagań flag.svg|250px|right|thumb|[[Flag]] of Żagań]] [[Image:Herb Żagania.png|90px|right|thumb|[[Coat of arms]] of Żagań]] '''Żagań''' is a town in the west part of [[Poland]]. 26,665 people lived there in [[2004]]. It is the main town of part of Poland called [[Żagań County]]. It is now part of the in the [[Lubusz Voivodeship|Lubusz Voivodship]] (a Voivoidship is part of the way Poland is organised into areas), before it was in [[Zielona Gora Voivodship]] (1975-1998). There is a [[castle]] called Sagan in the middle of an area that is also called Sagan. The castle belonged to [[Albrecht von Wallenstein|Wallenstein]], a soldier and [[politician]] of the [[Thirty Years' War]]. Later, the castle belonged to the [[Bohemia]]n family of Lobkowitz. In 1786, the Sagan area was bought by [[Courland|Peter Biron, duke of Courland]]. In 1843, it went to his daughter Dorothea, the wife of Edmond de Talleyrand. An act of the [[king]] of [[Prussia]] on January 6, 1845 made her [[Duchess]] of Sagan. [[Napoleon III]] did the same in [[France]], for her son Louis. The double title, both Prussian and French, meant that the [[duc de Sagan]] was a neutral party in the [[World War II|Second World War]]. His house (the [[Château de Valençay]]) was a safe place to keep [[picture]]s and other things from the [[Louvre]] when [[Germany|German]] [[soldier]]s were in France. In the [[Second World War]], the well-known [[war]] [[prison]] [[Stalag Luft|Stalag Luft III]] was there. ==Other websites== *[http://www.um.zagan.pl/ The web page of the town.] *[http://mapa.szukacz.pl/?x=244269&y=422393&m=%afaga%f1&w=lubuskie&p=%bfaga%f1ski&g=%afaga%f1&z=3 A map.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314092151/http://mapa.szukacz.pl/?x=244269&y=422393&m=%afaga%f1&w=lubuskie&p=%bfaga%f1ski&g=%afaga%f1&z=3 |date=2022-03-14 }} *[http://www.dekorgraf.pl/oferta_wydawnicza.php?site=widokowki&site2=miasto_zagan Some pictures.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522183444/http://www.dekorgraf.pl/oferta_wyda