{"id":24104,"date":"2026-01-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24104"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:25:53","slug":"the-dictionary-of-polish-place-names-rostki-kaptury-szelkow-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24104","title":{"rendered":"The Dictionary of Polish Place Names \u2013 Rostki-Kaptury (Szelk\u00f3w Parish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>) explains the origin of place names in Poland and details how the place name changed over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume XI of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> lists one place called Rostki-Kaptury. This entry is for a village currently in the Masovian Voivodeship and which belongs to the Szelk\u00f3w parish. Today, the village of Rostki-Kaptury is known simply as Kaptury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> indicates that Rostki-Kaptury was in the Szelk\u00f3w Gmina, Ostro\u0142\u0119ka Voivodeship in the years 1975-1998, and is 11 kilometers southeast of Ostr\u00f3w Mazowiecka. Mentions of the village include “Dux donated to Thoma, Derslao and Mroczeslao, heirs of Rosthky, 10 manses on the Orzic river near Mak\u00f3w, around the Rzwyen forest” in (1414\u201325) 1456, from Kaptury<\/em> in (1565), Rosthki Kapturi<\/em> in 1582, Rostki Kaptury<\/em> in 1783\u201384, Rostki kap\u0142uzy<\/em> (!) in 1827, Rostki Kaptury<\/em> in 1888, Rostki-Kaptury, -tek-tur, kapturowski<\/em> in 1971, Rostki-Kaptury, -tek-tur<\/em> in 1982, and after the name change Kaptury, -tur, kapturski<\/em> in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name Rostki<\/em> is a repetition of the name Rostki (a village 8.5 kilometers northwest of Nasielsk). The element Kaptur<\/em>y comes from the name of a settlement Kaptur<\/em>, in the plural form.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Rymut, Kazimierz, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, and Urszula Bijak, eds., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> (Place Names of Poland<\/em>) – Krakow 2005, Volume XI, page 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the link for a PDF copy of the\u00a0Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>\u00a0entry for\u00a0Rostki-Kaptury<\/a>. Translated rom the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Rostki-Kaptury<\/strong>, today Kaptury<\/em>, a village in the Ostro\u0142\u0119ka district, Szelk\u00f3w commune, 11 km southeast of Ostr\u00f3w Mazowiecka: Dux donated to Thoma, Derslao and Mroczeslao, heirs of Rosthky, 10 manses on the Orzic river near Mak\u00f3w, around the Rzwyen forest (1414\u201325) 1456 SHGMz(MK 3, 100); from Kaptury<\/em> (1565) Lumaz II 134; Rosthki Kapturi<\/em> 1582 \u0179Dz XVI 392; Rostki Kaptury<\/em> 1783\u201384 RejKor 516; Rostki kap\u0142uzy<\/em> (!) 1827 Tabella II 142; Rostki Kaptury<\/em> 1888 SG IX 796; Rostki-Kaptury, -tek-tur, kapturowski<\/em> 1971 UN 129, 47; Rostki-Kaptury, -tek-tur<\/em> 1982 WUN III 141; after the change Kaptury, -tur, kapturski<\/em> 1996 MPol no. 21, item 245. \u2014 The name Rostki<\/em> is a repetition of the name Rostki <\/em>(1). The element Kaptury<\/em> comes from the personal name Kaptur<\/em> RymSEN I 376, in the plural form Urszula Bijak<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski) explains the origin of place names in Poland and details how the place name changed over time. Volume XI of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski lists one place called Rostki-Kaptury. This entry is for a … 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-24104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104","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=24104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24123,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions\/24123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}