The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes multiple entries for Polish villages called Dzierżanowo. One of these is currently located in Maków Powiat and belongs to the Szwelice Parish.
Dzierżanowo 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 1881, Volume II, page 277.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the Słownik Geograficzny entry for Dzierżanowo. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
3.) Dzierżanowo, a village and folwark [a large manorial farm], situated on the Pełta River, in Maków powiat, Karniewo gmina, Szwelice parish. In 1827, there were 24 houses and 224 inhabitants. See also Czarnostowo.
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