{"id":24240,"date":"2026-01-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24240"},"modified":"2025-12-28T02:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:53:43","slug":"the-dictionary-of-polish-place-names-gociejewo-szwelice-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24240","title":{"rendered":"The Dictionary of Polish Place Names \u2013 Gociejewo (Szwelice Parish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (<em>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<p>Volume III of\u00a0<em>Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>\u00a0lists one place called Gociejewo which belongs to the Szwelice parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>\u00a0indicates that Gociejewo was in the Karniewo Gmina, Ciechan\u00f3w Voivodeship in the years 1975-1998 and was located 10 kilometers southwest of Mak\u00f3w Mazowiecki. Mentions of the village include: <em>Goscegow<\/em> in (about 1240), <em>Gosczyegewo<\/em> in 1449,  <em>Gosczegeuo<\/em> in 1454, <em>Kosczegewo<\/em> in 1477, <em>Goszczyeyew<\/em>o in 1497, <em>Gosczyeyewo<\/em> in 1510, <em>Gosczeieyewo<\/em> (!) in 1530, <em>Gosczieiewo<\/em> in 1582, <em>Gosciejewo<\/em> in 1783, <em>Go\u015bcieiewo<\/em> in 1827, <em>Go\u015bcieiewo<\/em> in 1839, <em>Go\u015bciejewo<\/em> in 1881, and <em>Go\u015bciejewo, -wa, go\u015bciejewski<\/em> in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name of Go\u015bciejewo is from the name of a settlement <em>Go\u015bciej<\/em>, with suffixes <em>-\u00f3w, -ewo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1980-PPN-Gosciejewo-3-276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1980-PPN-Gosciejewo-3-276-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24243\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.369005810612349;width:403px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1980-PPN-Gosciejewo-3-276-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1980-PPN-Gosciejewo-3-276-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1980-PPN-Gosciejewo-3-276-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1980-PPN-Gosciejewo-3-276-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1980-PPN-Gosciejewo-3-276.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Source: Rymut, Kazimierz, ed.,<em> Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> (<em>Place Names of Poland<\/em>) &#8211; Krakow 1999, Volume III, page 276.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link for a PDF copy of the\u00a0<em>Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>\u00a0entry for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PPN-Gosciejewo.pdf\">Go\u015bciejewo<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Go\u015bciejewo<\/strong> (1), village, Ciechan\u00f3w voivodeship, Karniewo gmina [in the years 1975-1998], 10 kilometers southwest of Mak\u00f3w Mazowiecki: <em>Goscegow<\/em> (about 1240) KMaz I 343; <em>Gosczyegewo<\/em> 1449 Pult 315; <em>Gosczegeuo<\/em> 1454 SHGMz(Ep. 5, 70v); <em>Kosczegewo<\/em> 1477 SHGMz(Ep. 13, 100v); <em>Goszczyeyew<\/em>o 1497 SHGMz(Ep. 15, 119a); <em>Gosczyeyewo<\/em> 1510 SHGMz(PT 1, 107); <em>Gosczeieyewo<\/em> (!) 1530 Pu\u0142t 381; <em>Gosczieiewo<\/em> 1582 \u0179Dz XVI 392; <em>Gosciejewo<\/em> 1783 MpPerMz; <em>Go\u015bcieiewo<\/em> 1827 Tabella I 139; <em>Go\u015bcieiewo<\/em> 1839 MpKwat IV 2; <em>Go\u015bciejewo<\/em> 1881 SG II 736; <em>Go\u015bciejewo, -wa, go\u015bciejewski<\/em> 1971 UN 129, 48. &#8211; From the name of a settlement <em>Go\u015bciej<\/em> SSNO II 179, with suffixes <em>-\u00f3w, -ewo<\/em>. Lithuanian: ZMaz 182.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<em>Urszula Bijak<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Copyright \u00a9 2026 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 III of\u00a0Nazwy Miejscowe Polski\u00a0lists one place called Gociejewo which belongs to the Szwelice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-24240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24240","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=24240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24245,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24240\/revisions\/24245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}