Przasnysz

Przasnysz
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Przasnysz
Coordinates: 53°1′N 20°53′E
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. City laws - 1427.

Famous people from Przasnysz

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

External links

• ePrzasnysz.pl - Your Virtual City, local news from Przasnysz and district
• 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"