The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes an entry for the Polish village of Magnuszew (Magnuszewo).
Magnuszewo and Surrounding Area – 1910
Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images, Lazarus ELTE
(http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/39-53.jpg: accessed 20 December 2025)
Source: Sulmierski, Filip, Bronisław Chlebowski, and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik
Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical
Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1884,
Volume V, Page 898.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the Słownik Geograficzny entry for Magnuszewo. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
Magnuszewo Małe, also known as Kotowe, and Magnuszewo Wielkie. A village on the Orzyc River, Maków powiat, Smrock gmina, Szelków parish. There is a primary school here. In 1827, Magnuszewo Małe had 16 houses and 172 inhabitants; Magnuszewo Wielkie had 22 houses and 189 inhabitants. See Krasne, vol. IV, p. 623. According to the Land Credit Society, the Magnuszewo Małe (Kotowe) estate (with the villages of Magnuszewo Małe, Dąbrowa, and Święta Rozalia), 3 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from the Narew River, covered 981 mórgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 mórg = 1.388 acres]; arable land and gardens 310 mórgs, meadows 5 mórgs, pastures 89 mórgs, forest 465 mórgs, thickets 95 mórgs, unproductive land and building plots 17 mórgs, 13 wooden buildings. The village of Magnuszewo Małe had 29 settlements, with 212 mórgs of land; Dąbrowa had 3 settlements, with 29 mórgs of land; Święta Rozalia had 3 settlements, with 34 mórgs of land. The Magnuszewo-Laski estate (with the localities of Gnojno and Rzewin, and the villages of Magnuszewo Wielkie, Budy Krasińskie, and Laski), 4 versts from the Narew River, covered 1818 mórgs, arable land and gardens 557 mórgs, meadows 77 mórgs, pastures 162 mórgs, forest 861 mórgs, thickets 100 mórgs, unproductive land and building plots 61 mórgs, 2 brick buildings, 14 wooden buildings. Villages: Magnuszewo Wielkie 25 settlements, with 126 mórgs of land; Budy Krasińskie 4 settlements, with 145 mórgs of land; Laski 21 settlements, with 316 mórgs of land. Bronisław Chlebowski
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