Budzistowo b is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Kołobrzeg, within Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship, , is a voivodeship in northwestern Poland. It borders on Pomeranian Voivodeship to the east, Greater Poland Voivodeship to the southeast, Lubusz Voivodeship to the south, the German federal-state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north...

, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south-east of Kołobrzeg and 106 km (66 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szczecin

Szczecin

Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....

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From the 9th century to 1255, modern Budzistowo was the site of Salsa Cholbergensis, a Slavic Pomeranian burgh with a suburbium. This settlement was built as the new center of the local subtribe after the southward emporium at Bardy-Swielubie

Bardy-Swielubie

Bardy-Świelubie or Bartin-Zwillipp near modern Kolobrzeg was a Viking Age Slavic-Scandinavian settlement on the southern Baltic coast...

 (Bartin-Zwillip) was abandoned. St. John's church dates from this era, founded in the course of the conversion of Pomerania

Conversion of Pomerania

Medieval Pomerania was converted from Slavic paganism to Christianity by Otto von Bamberg in 1124 and 1128 , and in 1168 by Absalon .Earlier attempts, undertaken since the 10th century, failed or were short-lived...

. The settlement was turned into a village when Kolberg (Kolobrzeg) was founded upstream the Persante river and now in turn served as the center of the area. Henceforth, the former Salsa Cholbergensis was known as Altstadt or Alt-Kolberg, meaning "Old Town" or "Old Kolberg". In 1945, it was officially renamed Budzistowo.

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany

Germany

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. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania

History of Pomerania

The history of Pomerania dates back more than 10,000 years. Settlement in the area started by the end of the Vistula Glacial Stage, about 13,000 years ago. Archeological traces have been found of various cultures during the Stone and Bronze Age, of Veneti and Germanic peoples during the Iron Age...

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The village has a population of 779 (as of 2009).