Jaktorów
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Jaktorów j 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 Grodzisk Mazowiecki County
Grodzisk Mazowiecki County
Grodzisk Mazowiecki County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Grodzisk...

, Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship
-Administrative division:Masovian Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties : 5 city counties and 37 "land counties"...

, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina
Gmina
The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Jaktorów
Gmina Jaktorów
Gmina Jaktorów is a rural gmina in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Jaktorów, which lies approximately west of Grodzisk Mazowiecki and south-west of Warsaw....

. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 26,881 inhabitants in 2006. It is 30 km. southwest of Warsaw.Between 1975 and 1998 it was situated in the Warszawa Voivodeship but since 1999 it has been situated in the Masovian Voivodeship. It is the capital of Grodzisk Mazowiecki...

 and 37 km (23 mi) south-west of Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

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The village has a population of 910.

The last recorded live aurochs
Aurochs
The aurochs , the ancestor of domestic cattle, were a type of large wild cattle which inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa, but is now extinct; it survived in Europe until 1627....

 (or urus (Bos primigenius), polish tur - the ancestor of domestic cattle
Cattle
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, was a type of huge wild cattle which inhabited Europe
Europe
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, Asia
Asia
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 and North Africa
North Africa
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), a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. The skull was later taken by the Swedish Army
Swedish Army
The Swedish Army is one of the oldest standing armies in the world and a branch of the Swedish Armed Forces; it is in charge of land operations. General Sverker Göranson is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Army.- Organization :...

 during the Swedish invasion of Poland (1655–1660) and is now the property of Livrustkammaren
Livrustkammaren
The is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artefacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty. Seen from an international perspective, the Royal Armoury's collections are of world-class...

 in Stockholm
Stockholm
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