Jazgarzew

Jazgarzew
Village
Saint Roch church in Jazgarzew
Jazgarzew
Coordinates: 52°2′10″N 20°59′23″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Piaseczno
Gmina	Piaseczno
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	WPI
Primary airport	Warsaw Chopin Airport
Voivodeship road

Jazgarzew [jazˈɡaʐɛf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piaseczno, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Piaseczno and 21 km (13 mi) south of Warsaw.

Etymology

The name of the village is of Polish origin, and comes from the word jazgarz, which means "ruffe".[2]

History

There is an archaelogical site from the ancient Roman times in the village.[2]

The territory became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. The village was mentioned in medieval documents in 1297.[2] In 1326, Trojden I, Duke of Masovia from the Piast dynasty granted it to knight Domisław.[3] Jazgarzew was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

In 1827 Jazgarzew had a population of 239.[3]

Notable people

• Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (1896–1989), Polish Army officer whose intelligence work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch landings

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Zając, Dorota; Hofman, Stanisław (2017). Nazwy miejscowe powiatu piaseczyńskiego. Informator krajoznawczy o ziemi piaseczyńskiej (in Polish). Piaseczno. pp. 16–17.
3. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom III (in Polish). Warszawa. 1882. p. 537.