Ogrodzieniec
Encyclopedia
Ogrodzieniec o is town Zawiercie County
, Silesian Voivodeship
, Poland
, with 4,499 inhabitants (2004).
It is noted for the extensive ruins of a medieval castle, damaged during the Swedish invasion of Poland
in the years 1655–1660.
Zawiercie County
Zawiercie County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Silesian Voivodeship, southern 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 Zawiercie, which lies ...
, 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...
, 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 4,499 inhabitants (2004).
It is noted for the extensive ruins of a medieval castle, damaged during the Swedish invasion of Poland
The Deluge (Polish history)
The term Deluge denotes a series of mid-17th century campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, thus comprising the Polish–Lithuanian theaters of the Russo-Polish and...
in the years 1655–1660.
External links
- Ogrodzieniec.Org - unofficial site