The Polish Village of Daniłowo (Szelków Parish)

The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes seven entries for Polish villages called Daniłowo. Two of these entries describe the village of Daniłowo in Maków Powiat, the village that belongs to Szelków parish.

Daniłowo 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 1880, Volume I, page 901.

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the Słownik Geograficzny entries for Daniłowo. Translated from the Polish, the first entry for Daniłowo (Szelków parish) reads:

4.) Daniłowo, a village in Maków powiat, Smrock gmina, Szelków parish.
Bronisław Chlebowski

Translated from the Polish, the second entry for Daniłowo (Szelków parish) reads:

     Daniłowo, a village in Maków powiat. A village belonging to the bishops of Płock. In 1578, Mateusz Piotrowicz, the village headman, paid taxes here on one łan (a unit of land area) and two homesteads.

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