Iwiczno

Iwiczno
Village
A street in Iwiczno
Iwiczno
Coordinates: 53°53′11″N 18°14′22″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Starogard
Gmina	Kaliska
Highest elevation	141 m (463 ft)
Lowest elevation	110 m (360 ft)
Population	254
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Iwiczno [iˈvit͡ʂnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kaliska, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Kaliska, 22 km (14 mi) south-west of Starogard Gdański, and 60 km (37 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.

Iwiczno was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[2]

Notable people

• Izydor Gulgowski [pl] (1874–1925), Polish journalist and ethnographer, Kashubian poet, officer of the Polish Army, founder of the Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w., Toruń, 1955, pp. 110-111 (in Polish)