Miastkowo
Miastkowo | |
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Village | |
Primary school (on the right) and Our Lady of the Rosary church (on the left) | |
Miastkowo | |
| Coordinates: 53°10′N 21°49′E / 53.167°N 21.817°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie |
| County | Łomża |
| Gmina | Miastkowo |
| Population | 1,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | BLM |
| National roads | |
| Voivodeship roads | |
| Website | www.miastkowo.pl |
Miastkowo [mjastˈkɔvɔ] is a village in Łomża County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Miastkowo.
History
Miastkowo was mentioned in 1413 as the seat of the Miastkowski noble family.[2] A church and parish were founded in 1451 by Dukes from the Masovian line of the Polish Piast dynasty.[2] In 1827, the village had a population of 270.[2] There are graves of Polish troops killed in the Polish–Soviet War in 1920 at the local cemetery.[3]
During World War II, the settlement was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941, and by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. The German Nazi government operated a penal forced labour camp in the village.[4] Its prisoners were mostly inhabitants of Miastkowo and nearby villages.[5] During the Holocaust, local Pole Józef Dąbkowski managed to hide and rescue nine Jews from the Germans.[6]
Notable people
- Marian Oleś (1934–2005), Polish priest and apostolic nuncio
References
- ^ "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). To search: Select "Miejscowości (SIMC)" tab, select "fragment (min. 3 znaki)" (minimum 3 characters), enter town name in the field below, click "WYSZUKAJ" (Search).
- ^ a b c Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VI (in Polish). Warsaw. 1885. p. 289.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kowalski, Andrzej (1995). "Miejsca pamięci związane z Bitwą Warszawską 1920 r.". Niepodległość i Pamięć (in Polish) (2/2 (3)). Muzeum Niepodległości w Warszawie: 141. ISSN 1427-1443.
- ^ Sędziak, Zdzisław (2000). "Eksploatacja ludności regionu łomżyńskiego przez pracę na rzecz III Rzeszy". Studia Łomżyńskie (in Polish). No. 11. pp. 206–207.
- ^ Sędziak, p. 206
- ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. p. 55.