Babin - a village on the Bełżyce Plain, which became famous in the 16th century as the Babin Republic. It was a literary-political association (or literary-political-theological-social club), founded by Stanisław Pszonka and Piotr Kaszowski, which humorously commented on reality and parodied the vices of the nobility. Among its members were Mikołaj Rej (a poet and writer, considered the father of Polish literature), Jan Kochanowski (a leading Renaissance poet), and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (a political thinker and advocate of state and church reform). Functioning from the second half of the 16th century, the Babin Republic drew on carnival traditions and provided a space for social criticism.

Today, its history is recalled by a chapel from 1664, listed in the Register of Historic Monuments of the Lublin Voivodeship. Another memento of the association is Jan Matejko's painting "Babin Republic" from 1881, which is housed in the National Museum in Warsaw.