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This publication presents the results of the research project “At the meeting point of cultures and nations. Towns in the District of Zhovkva (Żółkiew) in the Josephinian Land Survey”. The research has been supported by the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of History (“Research cooperation”). The source basis for the research are mass and complementary historical sources from the 80s of the 18th century: the Josephinian Land Survey, created in the years 1785–1788 and the so-called urbarial descriptions, drawn up in 1789 for tax purposes. Volume 57 presents source materials for the towns of the Zhovkva (Żółkiew) “cyrkul”: Lubaczów and Stojaniv (Stojanów. The introduction discusses the legal status, geographical location and property structure of the above mentioned towns as well as characterises the main elements of their physical, public, political and social space. The publication has been supplemented with copies of some of the source documents (among others, descriptions of town borders) and tabular list of town inhabitants made on the basis of the Josphinian Land Survey and the so-called urbarial descriptions.