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unusual facts about Brochów, Masovian Voivodeship



Brochów, Masovian Voivodeship

It was in the church at Brochów that Mikołaj Chopin and Justyna Krzyżanowska, parents of future composer Frédéric Chopin, were married on 2 June 1806.

During the Invasion of Poland in World War II, on 15 September 1939, Brochów was the site of a successful cavalry charge against German infantry by the 17th Wielkopolska Uhlan Regiment.

Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski

He was born Kazimierz Łukoski in 1890, in the village of Sokół near Garwolin, in the Siedlce Governorate of the Russian Empire (in the Masovian Voivodeship of present-day Poland).

Maria Wasiak

In 1998 Maria Wasiak became the final deputy-voivode of the Radom Voivodeship, before that region's amalgamation with others to form the Masovian Voivodeship as part of the Polish territorial divisions reforms in 1999.

Masovian Province

Masovian Voivodeship, a present-day division of Poland, as well as other units existing after 1526


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