{"id":24246,"date":"2026-01-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24246"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:56:03","slug":"the-polish-village-of-czarnostowo-czarnostow-szwelice-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24246","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Czarnostowo\/Czarnost\u00f3w (Szwelice 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 one entry for the Polish village of Czarnostowo, currently three villages in Mak\u00f3w Powiat called Czarnost\u00f3w and Czarnost\u00f3w Polesie, and Kolonia Czarnost\u00f3w Polesie.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Czarnostowo 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 1880, Volume I, page 760.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

     Czarnostowo<\/strong>, a village and manor on the Sona River, Mak\u00f3w powiat, Karniewo gmina, Szwelice parish. In 1827, there were 28 houses and 209 inhabitants. The Czarnostowo estate consists of the Czarnostowo manor and the villages of Czarnostowo, Dzier\u017canowo, and Szwelice; 77 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from \u0141om\u017ca, 8 versts from Mak\u00f3w, 13 versts from Pu\u0142tusk, and 9 versts from the Narew River. The area is 3,282 m\u00f3rgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres], specifically: arable land and gardens 853 m\u00f3rgs, meadows 182 m\u00f3rgs, forest 2,209 m\u00f3rgs, wasteland and building plots 38 m\u00f3rgs. Four-field crop rotation. 4 brick buildings, 20 wooden buildings. A steam mill processing approximately 12,000 bushels of grain annually; a sawmill, threshing machine and chaff cutter, powered by steam; a windmill, as well as deposits of marl and limestone. The village of Czarnostowo has 44 settlements and 341 m\u00f3rgs of land; the village of Dzier\u017canowo has 12 settlements and 252 morgs of land; the village of Szwelice has 36 settlements and 779 m\u00f3rgs of land. Aleksander Palmirski<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 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 one entry for the Polish village of Czarnostowo, currently three villages in Mak\u00f3w Powiat called Czarnost\u00f3w and Czarnost\u00f3w Polesie, and Kolonia … 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-24246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6j4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246","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=24246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24328,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions\/24328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}