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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the Zielona Area – 1910<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE: Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary, Sheet 39-53, Ostrolecka. Online http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg<\/a>; downloaded 18 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Zielona<\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, J\u00f3zef Krzywicki, Filip Sulimierski, 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 1895, Volume XIV, pages 596-597.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Zielona<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n 11.) Zielona, a village on the Sona River, Ciechan\u00f3w Powiat, Barto\u0142dy Gmina, and Zielona Parish, 19 versts [0.66 miles per verst] from Ciechan\u00f3w. It includes a wooden parish church, an elementary school, 18 homes, 186 residents, 403 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres] of which 61 belong to the peasants. A few nobles live here. In the year 1827 there were 12 homes and 62 residents. The parish church already existed here in 1567. The current [church] originated in the year 1774. In the year 1567 a few nobles lived here, having a few lots and in which there were altogether 1 \u00c2\u00be w\u0142\u00f3ki (1 w\u0142\u00f3ka = 16.8 hectares), 4 gardens, 1 slaughterhouse, and in the parts of Zielona Stoszie \u00c2\u00bc w\u0142\u00f3ka (Pawi\u0144ski, Mazowsze, 331). The Parish of Zielona belonged to the Ciechan\u00f3w Deanery (formerly it belonged to the Przasznysz Deanery) [and served] 2100 souls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The reference to Pawi\u0144ski, Mazowsze, 331 refers to:<\/p>\n Pawi\u0144ski, Adolf. 1892. Mazowsze. Polska XVI wieku pod wzgl\u0119dem geograficzno-statystycznym, t. 5. Warszawa: sk\u0142. g\u0142. w Ksi\u0119garni Gebethnera i Wolffa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This publication is available online at the Digital Library of Wielkopolska<\/a>.<\/p>\n The place described here is only one of many places in Poland called Zielona. In this entry, the Sona River is mentioned. The S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for the Sona River<\/a> was previously translated.<\/p>\n The maps of the Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary and the entries in the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny were prepared at about the same time and make a good pair for studying places in and around the Congress Kingdom of Poland at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, a time period when the Eastern European ancestors of present-day Americans left their homelands for the United States.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The village of Zielona is significant in my family history because it was the location of the parish church that many of my Chodkowski relatives and their spouses attended. Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n