Myszaków
Myszaków | |
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Village | |
_(5).JPG) Grave of Polish insurgents from 1863 | |
  Myszaków | |
| Coordinates: 52°8′22″N 17°48′2″E / 52.13944°N 17.80056°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Słupca |
| Gmina | Zagórów |
| Population | 150 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Myszaków [mɨˈʂakuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zagórów, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Zagórów, 19 km (12 mi) south of Słupca, and 67 km (42 mi) south-east of the regional capital Poznań.
One of the battles of the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire was fought near the village in 1863.[2] There is a mass grave of the Polish insurgents in the village.
Notable people[edit]
- Stanisław Kostanecki (1860–1910), one of the most renown Polish organic chemists
- Kazimierz Kostanecki (1863–1940), Polish physician, anatomist, cytologist, murdered by the Germans in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- Antoni Kostanecki (1866–1941), Polish economist, rector of the University of Warsaw
References[edit]
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ "Położenie i historia". Urząd Miejski Zagórów (in Polish). Retrieved 13 April 2020.
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