Czyżkowo

Czyżkowo
Village
Czyżkowo
Coordinates: 53°27′32″N 17°19′46″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Złotów
Gmina	Lipka
Population	210
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PZL

Czyżkowo [t͡ʂɨʂˈkɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipka, within Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Lipka, 23 km (14 mi) north-east of Złotów, and 121 km (75 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań. It is located in ethnocultural region of Krajna in northern Greater Poland.

History

The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century. Czyżkowo, also known in the past as Szyszkowo, was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[2] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 to 1945 it was part of Germany.

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1b.