{"id":768,"date":"2006-11-15T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/the-polish-village-of-losice\/"},"modified":"2006-11-15T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T05:48:48","slug":"the-polish-village-of-losice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/768","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of \u0141osice"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the readers of this blog wrote to me and asked if there was an entry in the S\u0142ownik Geograficny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego<\/em> (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland<\/em>) for the Polish village of \u0141osice .\u00a0 There are, in fact, two entries for \u0141osice, one in the Konstantyn\u00f3w Powiat and the other in the Kobry\u0144 Powiat.<\/p>\n

\"Slownik<\/a><\/p>\n

The S\u0142ownik Entry for \u0141osice<\/em><\/p>\n

Click on the link for a PDF<\/a> copy of the S\u0142ownik entry for \u0141osice .\u00a0 Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n

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\u0141osice,<\/strong> an urban settlement on the Tuczna River in the Konstantyn\u00f3w Powiat [District], gmina [municipality] and parish of \u0141osice .\u00a0 It lies in the riverside lowlands, 28 versts [1 verst = 1.0668 kilometers] not far from Siedlce .\u00a0 It possesses a wooden parish church, a Uniate Orthodox church, a synagogue, an elementary school, a local court for the 4th district, and a post office .\u00a0 In 1827 there were 190 homes and 1543 residents here, in 1862 there were 199 homes (6 made of stone) and 1755 residents (838 Jews); currently there are 208 homes, 2610 residents, and 3332 m\u00f3rgs [1 m\u00f3rg in the Russian Partition = 1.388 acres] of urban land .\u00a0 \u0141osice belongs to the oldest ruling urban settlement in Podlasa .\u00a0 In the year 1505, Aleksander Jagie\u0142\u0142o moved the local townspeople from Russian Law to German Law .\u00a0 At that time a town hall with a butcher’s shop, scales, a shearing room were erected, and a fair was set up .\u00a0 Despite this, the district governor of the place did not stop oppressing the townfolk, and his collectors collected fees according to Lithuanian laws .\u00a0 Not until the resolution of the Sejm [the Polish parliament] in the year 1573 was the exploitation ended .\u00a0 W\u0142adys\u0142aw the fourth, with the charter in the year 1647, allowed the townspeople to distill vodka and to distribute it freely .\u00a0 Destroyed at the time of the Swedish War, in the year 1677 \u0141osice was granted confirmation and expansion of the charter for the establishment and sales of alcoholic beverages, but the arrival of the Jews, the prot\u00e9g\u00e9s of the district governors, prohibited the competition of the townspeople and led them into extreme poverty .\u00a0 The royal ban, confirmed several times, did not rectify the abuse; the Christian population had to shift to agricultural labor .\u00a0 In the year 1511, the Catholic Church of Saint Zygmunt was founded and paid for by Zygmunt the first .\u00a0 The stone chapel of Saint Stanis\u0142aw stood near it .\u00a0 A Russian Orthodox Church was established in an even earlier time .\u00a0 The \u0141osice parish of the Konstantyn\u00f3w deaconry had 3252 souls .\u00a0 The Gmina of \u0141osice belongs to the district court of the 3rd district, there were 2675 residents in that place.
\nBronis\u0142aw Chlebowski<\/em><\/p>\n

\u0141osice,<\/strong> a village in the Kobry\u0144 Powiat [District], near the road from Chomsk to Drohiczyn and Antopol.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 Sulimierski Filip, Bronisaw Chlebowski, and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, eds., S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1884, Volume V, page 732.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the readers of this blog wrote to me and asked if there was an entry in the S\u0142ownik Geograficny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland) for the Polish village of \u0141osice .\u00a0 There are, in … 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-gazetteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-co","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}