{"id":23953,"date":"2025-12-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23953"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:56:00","slug":"the-polish-village-of-magnuszewo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23953","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Magnuszew\/Magnuszewo (Szelk\u00f3w Parish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)<\/em> includes an entry for the Polish village of Magnuszew (Magnuszewo).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Magnuszewo and Surrounding Area \u2013 1910<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images, Lazarus ELTE<\/em>
(http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg<\/a>: accessed 20 December 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Sulmierski, Filip, Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski, and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, eds., S\u0142ownik
Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich<\/em> (Geographical
Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries<\/em>) – Warsaw 1884,
Volume V, Page 898.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Magnuszewo<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Magnuszewo<\/strong> Ma\u0142e<\/em>, also known as Kotowe<\/em>, and Magnuszewo Wielkie<\/em>. A village on the Orzyc River, Mak\u00f3w powiat, Smrock gmina, Szelk\u00f3w parish. There is a primary school here. In 1827, Magnuszewo Ma\u0142e had 16 houses and 172 inhabitants; Magnuszewo Wielkie had 22 houses and 189 inhabitants. See Krasne<\/em>, vol. IV, p. 623. According to the Land Credit Society, the Magnuszewo Ma\u0142e (Kotowe) estate (with the villages of Magnuszewo Ma\u0142e, D\u0105browa, and \u015awi\u0119ta Rozalia), 3 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from the Narew River, covered 981 m\u00f3rgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres]; arable land and gardens 310 m\u00f3rgs, meadows 5 m\u00f3rgs, pastures 89 m\u00f3rgs, forest 465 m\u00f3rgs, thickets 95 m\u00f3rgs, unproductive land and building plots 17 m\u00f3rgs, 13 wooden buildings. The village of Magnuszewo Ma\u0142e had 29 settlements, with 212 m\u00f3rgs of land; D\u0105browa had 3 settlements, with 29 m\u00f3rgs of land; \u015awi\u0119ta Rozalia had 3 settlements, with 34 m\u00f3rgs of land. The Magnuszewo-Laski estate (with the localities of Gnojno and Rzewin, and the villages of Magnuszewo Wielkie, Budy Krasi\u0144skie, and Laski), 4 versts from the Narew River, covered 1818 m\u00f3rgs, arable land and gardens 557 m\u00f3rgs, meadows 77 m\u00f3rgs, pastures 162 m\u00f3rgs, forest 861 m\u00f3rgs, thickets 100 m\u00f3rgs, unproductive land and building plots 61 m\u00f3rgs, 2 brick buildings, 14 wooden buildings. Villages: Magnuszewo Wielkie 25 settlements, with 126 m\u00f3rgs of land; Budy Krasi\u0144skie 4 settlements, with 145 m\u00f3rgs of land; Laski 21 settlements, with 316 m\u00f3rgs of land.     Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (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 \u2013 1910 Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6el","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23953"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24260,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953\/revisions\/24260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}