Biecz district

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  • Biecz County in Krakow Voivodeship (16th century)
    • Biecz district on a modern map with a topographical background              Border of the district (around 1600)
  • places
  • Protestant communities

    • The district of Biecz ( Polish Powiat biecki ) was a district of the Krakow Voivodeship in the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic . It had an area of ​​2300 km².

    history

    In the 13th century the castle in Biecz became the seat of a castellany . Biecz was granted town charter as early as 1257 and then developed into one of the largest towns in the Duchy of Krakow . The second largest town in the district was Gorlice (over 1000 inhabitants), there were also 9 smaller towns: Bobowa , Ciężkowice , Dębowiec , Dukla , Grybów , Jasło , Jaśliska , Osiek , Żmigród . In the 16th century there were 270 villages, 8 of them with over 400 ( Bieniarowa , Błaszkowa , Jodłowa Niemiecka , Moszczenica Niemiecka , Ossownica , Przedmieście, Siemichów and Szerzyny ) and 30 with over 200 inhabitants.

    The majority of the population was Roman Catholic, although at the turn of the 17th century there were 13 Protestant parishes, mostly Reformed , some changed to Arian parishes of the Polish Brothers . In the later 15th century, the Lower Beskids in the southern part of the district were settled as part of the Wallachian colonization . At the end of the 16th century there were 20 Orthodox parishes. The largest Jewish community lived in Bobowa and Jasło from the 16th century.

    After the First Partition of Poland , the district was dissolved in Galicia .

    literature

    • Henryk Rutkowski (editor), Krzysztof Chłapkowski: Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz. 2, Komentarz, indeksy . Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2008 (Polish, online ).

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, pp. 72, 75
    2. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, pp. 78, 82
    3. ↑ Ciężkowice , Bobowa , Grybów , Gorlice , Jasło , Siedliska , Wilczyska , Wojnarowa , Szalowa , Tarnowiec , Nienaszów , Makowiska , Kobylany
    4. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 57
    5. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 59
    6. ↑ Województwo krakowskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 75