Stegna, Przasnysz County
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Stegna ' 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 Jednorożec
Gmina Jednorozec
Gmina Jednorożec is a rural gmina in Przasnysz County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Jednorożec, which lies approximately north-east of Przasnysz and north of Warsaw....

, within Przasnysz County
Przasnysz County
Przasnysz 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 Przasnysz, which lies ...

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

, in east-central Poland.

History

Stegna was a village by the Orzyc River initially settled in the early nineteenth century on the estate of Kazimierz Krasiński
Kazimierz Krasinski
Count Kazimierz Krasiński was a Polish noble, politician and patron of art. He was the son of Antoni Krasiński and Barbara Zielińska.The last Grand Camp Leader of the Crown of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

. It remained part of the Krasiński and Wawrzyńca estate until late in the nineteenth century.

In 1827 the settlement had 81 residents, and, by the middle of the nineteenth center, the village contained a dozen homes. By the late nineteenth century, the village counted 18 homes, 153 residents, on 260 land measures (mórg).

During the fighting of World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, Stegna lay on the front line of battle from the spring of 1915 to July 1915, and much of the village was destroyed. Postwar inhabitants rebuilt the village, and, a census taken post-war, in 1921, counted 28 homes and 156 inhabitants, including three Jews.

The village is incorporated under the municipality of Gmina Jednorożec
Gmina Jednorozec
Gmina Jednorożec is a rural gmina in Przasnysz County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Jednorożec, which lies approximately north-east of Przasnysz and north of Warsaw....

, which was established in 1867.
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