Przasnysz

Przasnysz
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Przasnysz
Coordinates:
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Przasnysz County
Gmina	Przasnysz (urban gmina)
Established	13th century
Town rights	1427
Government
• Mayor	Waldemar Marek Trochimiuk
Area
• Total	25.16 km2 (9.71 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	17,069
• Density	680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	06-300
Area code(s)	+48 29
Car plates	WPZ
Website	http://www.przasnysz.um.gov.pl

Przasnysz [ˈpʂasnɨʂ] is a town in Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodship, about 110 km north of Warsaw and about 115 km south of Olsztyn, it's the capital of Przasnysz County. It has 18,093 inhabitants (2004). One of the most important towns in Mazovia during the Middle Ages. Przasnysz was granted town privileges in 1427.

Famous people from Przasnysz

• Adam Bień (born 14 December 1899 - died 4 March 1998) - Polish resistance leader, imprisoned by the Soviets
• Alfred Borkowski (born 1930) - doctor and writer
• Stanisław Chełchowski (born 1866 - zm. 1907) naturalist and ethnographist
• Czesław Czaplicki (b 1922 - died 2006) - resistance leader
• Daniel Drejerski (born 1978 artist/designer
• Stanisław Figielski (born 1875 - died 1958) - administrator apostolski i wikariusz generalny diecezji płockiej
• Moisei Freidenberg (1858—1920) — Russian inventor and journalist
• Stefan Gołębiowski (born 1900 - died 1991) - translated Horace's poetry into Polish
• Leon Gościcki (born 1870 - died 1948) Catholic priest, member of the Rada Stanu
• Aleksander Kakowski (born 1862 - died 1938) Archbishop of Warsaw
• Paweł Kostka (born 1549 - died 1607) - military leader
• Stanisław Kostka (born 1550 - died 1568) - patron of children in the Catholic Church
• Teresa Mieczysława Kowalska (born 1902 - died 1941) - nun
• Bernard Kryszkiewicz (born 1915 - died 1945) - a Passionist priest
• Józef Stanisław Ostoja-Kotkowski (born 1922 - died 1994) - artist
• Abraham Lichtstein - Av Beis Din (head of the rabbinical court) of Przasnysz
• Haskel Prager (né Łucki) (b. c. 1876 – d. c. 1940) - liberal Jewish community leader
• Kazimierz Rokitnicki (born 1701 - died 1779) - bishop of Płock
• Włodzimierz Rykowski (born 1915 - died 1988)
• Józef Sawa-Caliński (died 1771) - one of the leaders of Bar Confederation
• Olgierd Vetesco (born 1913 - died 1983) - artist
• Tadeusz Witkowski (born 1946) - historian of literature and one of leaders of the Polish community in the USA
• Zenon Żebrowski (b. ~1898 - died 1982) Franciscan priest, architect of Niepokalanów

External links

• ePrzasnysz.pl - Your Virtual City, local news from Przasnysz and district
• Jewish Community in Przasnysz on Virtual Shtetl
• Przasnysz city government webpage
• Przasnysz commune government webpage
• Przasnysz on the map, via www.pilot.pl
• webpage about the book "Misjonarze i Barbarzyńcy. Opowieści o codziennym życiu przasnyskiego ogólniaka w latach 1923-2005"