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33 unusual facts about Masovian Voivodeship


Anielew

Anielew, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in the Gmina Mińsk Mazowiecki, Mińsk County, Poland

Battle of Białołęka

Subsequent inconclusive victories at Dobre on February 17 and Wawer on February 19 and 20 bolstered Polish spirits, but were inconclusive.

Bolesław II of Masovia

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

Bryski

Bryski, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rościszewo, Poland

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.

Edward Kopówka

He is the Senior Curator of the Treblinka extermination camp museum in Treblinka with certification from the Ministry of Culture.

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.

Feliksa Kozłowska

Feliksa Kozłowska (also known as Felicja Kozłowska and Sister Maria Franciszka) (May 27, 1862, Wieliczna - August 23, 1921, Płock) was a Polish religious mystic and visionary who founded what eventually became the Old Catholic Mariavite Church, and, by implication, a dissident group which split from it in 1935, the Catholic Mariavite Church.

Gabriel Janowski

Gabriel Janowski (born on 22 April 1947 in Konstantów) – Polish politician, activist of opposition in People's Republic of Poland, senator of the first term of office of Senate of the Republic of Poland, MP of first, third and fourth term of office of Sejm, from 1991 do 1993 the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal

When this blissful calm ended, he took part in the offensive in Alsace, but in July his regiment was transferred to Tomaszew in central Poland, close to Warsaw, nearer to the new Soviet frontier, where in spite of his junior rank he took command of a battalion.

Henry I, Margrave of Austria

After taking the marches of Lusatia and Sorbian Meissen, and the cities of Budziszyn and Meissen in 1002, Bolesław I Chrobry refused to pay tribute to the Empire from the conquered territories.

Ivan Turkenich

On August 13, 1944 Ivan Turkenich was mortally wounded in a battle near Głogów, Poland.

Jan Zawidzki

Jan Wiktor Tomasz Zawidzki (December 20, 1866 in Włóki, Masovian Voivodeship – September 14, 1928 in Warsaw) was a Polish physical chemist and historian of chemistry.

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.

Jawczyce

Jawczyce, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ożarów Mazowiecki, Warsaw West County, Poland

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).

Lublin Ghetto

After liquidating the Lublin Ghetto, German authorities employed a forced labor work force of inmates of Majdanek to demolish and dismantle the area of the former ghetto, including in the nearby village of Wieniawa and the Podzamcze district, and in a symbolical event blew up the Maharam's Synagogue (built in the 17th century in honor of Meir Lublin).

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.

Maria Wirtemberska

Charmed with the picturesque village of Pilica she bought it and remodelled its landscape garden.

Masovian Province

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

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.

Olszanka, Łosice County

It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Olszanka.

Polish Round Table Agreement

Andrzej Gwiazda, who was one of the leaders of the so-called First Solidarity (August 1980 – December 1981), claims that the Round Table Agreement and the negotiations that took place before it at a Communist government's Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Poland) conference center (late 1988 and early 1989) in the village of Magdalenka had been arranged by Moscow.

Popielów

Popielów, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in Węgrów County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Ryki

First urban center of this part of Lesser Poland was located in Sieciechów, whose parish church controlled areas both east and west of the Vistula.

Sieciech

The town of Sieciechów (Castrum Sethei), judging by Gallus, was named after Sieciech (Setheus).

Stefan Bembiński

From 1936 he worked in public schools in Wsola and Kobylnik, at first as an instructor and later as a director of the Kobylnik school.

Świerkowo

Świerkowo, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świercze

Trojden I, Duke of Masovia

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

Trzepowo

Trzepowo, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in Gmina Pokrzywnica district, Pułtusk County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Zwoleń

On August 19–20, 1942 approximately 5,000 Jews were shipped in from Gniewoszów ghetto nearby.