Kazanów, Masovian Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Kazanów.

Kazanów
Village
Coat of arms
Kazanów
Coordinates: 51°16′19″N 21°27′23″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Zwoleń
Gmina	Kazanów
Founded	1566[1]
Population
• Total	460
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Kazanów [kaˈzanuf] is a village in Zwoleń County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kazanów.^[2] It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) south-west of Zwoleń and 110 km (68 mi) south of Warsaw.

History

Memorial to the victims of German-perpetrated massacre from 1942

Kazanów was founded in 1566 by the decree of King Sigismund II Augustus on the premises of the adjacent village of Miechów, the heir of which was Marcin Kazanowski.^[1] It was a private town of the Kazanowski, Strzałkowski and Wąsowicz noble families,^[1] administratively located in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of Poland.

During the German occupation (World War II), on 18 March 1942, the occupiers carried out a massacre of 16 Poles and 16 Jews.

References

1. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom III (in Polish). Warszawa. 1882. p. 920.
2. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.

External links

• Jewish Community in Kazanów on Virtual Shtetl