The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes many entries for Polish villages called Las. The one numbered 13 belongs to the parish of Szelków.
Sielc 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: Chlebowski, Bronisław and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1889, Volume X, page 524.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the Słownik Geograficzny entry for Sielc. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
Sielc 1.) Nowy and Stary, a village and manor on the Narew River, Maków powiat, Sielc gmina, Szelków parish, 14 kilometers from Maków. In 1870, there was a distillery here. In 1827, there were 22 houses and 175 inhabitants. On January 30, 1868, a brilliant meteorite, visible throughout the country, fell here. The Sielc estate consisted in 1870 of the manors of Sielc and Nowina Sielc, with a total area of 2088 mórgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 mórg = 1.388 acres]: arable land and gardens 641 mórgs, meadows 178 mórgs, pastures 83 mórgs, water 151 mórgs, forest 827 mórgs, thickets 168 mórgs, uncultivated land 39 mórgs; 6 brick buildings, 13 wooden buildings. The estate included the following villages: Sielc village, 24 inhabitants, 334 morgens; Bindużka village, 17 inhabitants, 208 mórgs; Olszewnica village, 7 inhabitants, 124 mórgs; Dąbrówka village, 10 inhabitants, 60 mórgs; Sitno settlement, 1 inhabitant, 31 mórgs. Sielc gmina belongs to the 1st gmina district in Maków (post office), the gmina office is in the village of Małki. The gmina has 6302 inhabitants and 13,904 mórgs of area. The gmina includes: 11 villages of minor nobility: Bełdyki, Boruty, Chrzanowo, Chrzcony, Łasiewity, Mroczki Kawki, Mroczki Rębiszewo, Naperki, Nowiny or Sielc, Pruszki, Rostki-Strużne; 7 villages with a mixed population: Brzuze, Drozdowo, Krudunki, Małki, Rostki-Kaptury, Słojki or… Słowiki and Tłuszcz, and 12 peasant villages: Bindużka, Dąbrówka, Dzbądz, Łachy, Łaś, Mościska, Mrozy, Olszewnica, Orle, Rzewnio, Sielc and Szygi Stare.
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