Miasteczko Krajeńskie
Town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
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Miasteczko Krajeńskie [mjasˈtɛt͡ʂkɔ kraˈjɛɲskʲɛ] is a town in Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Miasteczko Krajeńskie.[1]
Miasteczko Krajeńskie | |
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Town | |
Center of the town | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Miasteczko Krajeńskie Location within Poland | |
| Coordinates: 53°5′N 17°0′E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Piła |
| Gmina | Miasteczko Krajeńskie |
| Town rights | Before 1457 |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,163 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | PP |
The town has a population of 1,163.
History
Miasteczko is a former private town, once located in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2] The adjective Krajeńskie was added to the name after the historical-ethnocultural region of Krajna, within which it is located.
Polish folk hero Michał Drzymała is buried at the local cemetery.
Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by Germany until 1945. The local Polish police chief was murdered by the Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940.[3][4]
In 1945, the German occupation ended, and town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. In the following years, the Polish anti-communist resistance was active in the town and its environs, including the Home Army.[5]
Demographics
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