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8 unusual facts about Czersk, Masovian Voivodeship


Bolesław II of Masovia

In 1310 he offered some of Masovia to his son (the Duchy of Warsaw and the Duchy of Czersk).

Casimir I, Duke of Cieszyn

By 1321, Casimir I married Euphemia (b. 1310 – d. aft. 11 January 1374), daughter of Duke Trojden I of Czersk-Warsaw.

Duchy of Masovia

While Siemowit's son Duke Konrad II (1264–1294) moved his residence to Czersk he and his brother Boleslaus II entered into a long-term conflict over the Polish seniorate with their Kuyavian relatives and the Silesian Piasts, which estranged them from the Piast monarchy.

Elisabeth of Cieszyn

She was the fourth daughter and youngest child of Casimir I, Duke of Cieszyn, by his wife Euphemia, daughter of Duke Trojden I of Czersk-Warsaw.

Janusz I of Warsaw

In 1374 he inherited Zakroczym and in 1381 the lands of Czersk, Liw and Wyszogród as the result of partition of Masovia between his younger brother Siemowit IV and himself.

Masovians

Originally, their main settlements were in the area of Płock, Łomża, Wizna, Czersk, Ciechanów, Płońsk, Zakroczym and Grójec.

Mazovia

Different capitals of individual former duchies of Mazovia also include Czersk and later Warsaw.

Trojden I, Duke of Masovia

In 1310, when his father was still alive Trojden received the small region Czersk.


Czersk

Starting from 1990 – Systematic development of modern infrastructure (potable water system, sewer system and wastewater treatment plants (Czersk and Rytel), heating gas distribution, development of modern road system, modernisation of railroad);

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).

Kurkowo

Kurkowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, 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

Operational Group

# Operational Group "Czersk" (Grupa Operacyjna Czersk) under gen. Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki

Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia

Siemowit gave the small region of Warsaw to his brother Casimir, retaining the regions of Czersk, Liw and Rawa.

Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki

At the start of the Invasion of Poland in 1939, he commanded his unit as the core of the Czersk Operational Group which was to shield the Vistula river crossings against the German offensive and to protect the flanks of the Pomorze Army.


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