Silesian County
Silesian County within Kraków Voivodeship
The Silesian County (Polish: powiat śląski) was a county of the Kraków Voivodeship, within the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Its seats of government were located in the towns of Zator and Oświęcim. It existed from 1564 to 1795.
History
Silesian County was created at the
Polish Crown.[1] The kings retained both ducal titles, and names of both duchies remained in common use. It existed for over 200 years, and was dissolved after the third partition of Poland
(1795).
The total area of Silesian County was 2690 sq. kilometers, and initially consisted of four royal towns (
reformed), they were present in 34 parishes and their number was estimated at 10 – 15 thousand.[4]
The largest Jewish community lived since the late 16th century in Oświęcim, when they established the first Qahal, built a Synagogue and opened a Jewish school.[5] In years 1747–1749 the deanery of Oświęcim counted 2462 Jews.[6]
Footnotes
- ISBN 978-83-89188-77-9.
- ^ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 71-75
- ^ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 82
- ^ Krzysztof Koźbiał (1999). Wadowice na tle osad starostwa zatorskiego: zarys dziejów do 1772 roku (PDF). Wadoviana: przegląd historyczno-kulturalny. Vol. 3. p. 17.
- ^ Rafał Malik (1994). Oświęcim. Charakterystyka układu lokacyjnego miasta oraz jego rozwój przestrzenny w okresie średniowiecza (PDF) (in Polish). Kraków.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Marian Surdacki (1983). Stosunki wyznaniowe w diecezji krakowskiej w połowie XVIII wieku na podstawie wizytacj i tabel biskupa A.S. Załuskiego. Roczniki Nauk Społecznych (in Polish). Vol. XI. pp. 115, 128, 132.
References
- Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz. 2, Komentarz, indeksy (in Polish). Henryk Rutkowski (ed.), Krzysztof Chłapkowski. Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 2008.
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