Lasaki
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Lasaki l 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 Rudnik
Gmina Rudnik, Silesian Voivodeship
Gmina Rudnik is a rural gmina in Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Rudnik, which lies approximately north-west of Racibórz and west of the regional capital Katowice....

, within Racibórz County
Racibórz County
Racibórz County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech border. 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...

, Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia...

, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Rudnik
Rudnik, Racibórz County
Rudnik is a village in Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Rudnik. It lies approximately north-west of Racibórz and west of the regional capital Katowice....

, 12 km (7 mi) north of Racibórz
Racibórz
Racibórz is a town in southern Poland with 60,218 inhabitants situated in the Silesian Voivodeship , previously in Katowice Voivodeship...

, and 54 km (34 mi) west of the regional capital Katowice
Katowice
Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

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Hamlet had a German name Lassoky [1] , in the years 1936 - 1945 Weidenmoor [1] .

Name of the village probably comes from the word Lasok, which meant the workers of the forest. For the first time mentioned in the fifteenth century as a hamlet Sławikowa Sławikowski called Upper Las. (
Anna Bindacz: Gmina Rudnik - the land of castles and green. Racibórz: Wydawnictwo i Agencja Wydawnicza WAW Grzegorz Wawoczny, 2005, s. 20. ISBN 83-89802-09-0 . Racibórz: Publishing and the Publishing Agency WAW Wawoczny Gregory, 2005, p. 20 )

The village has a population of 220.
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