Kosów Lacki
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Kosów Lacki ' is a town in Sokołów County, Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship
-Administrative division:Masovian Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties : 5 city counties and 37 "land counties"...

, 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...

, with 2,152 inhabitants (2004).

History

  • 1202 - First mention of a village Kossów found in documents belonging to prince Konrad Mazowiecki.
  • 1723 - A permit was granted to organize a market twice a week and a fair four times in a year. Kosów was established as a town.
  • 18th century - There were two schools in Kossów, in which 40 percent of the students were girls.
  • 1869 - Civic rights were canceled, because Kosów participated in The January Uprising
    January Uprising
    The January Uprising was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire...

    .
  • 1964 - A picture by El Greco
    El Greco
    El Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος .El Greco was born on Crete, which was at...

    titled "Saint Francise ecstasy" was found in the presbytery in Kosów Lacki.
  • 01.01.2000 - Restoration of civic rights.

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