Stepno
Stepno | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | West Pomeranian |
| County | Szczecinek |
| Gmina | Biały Bór |
Stepno [ˈstɛpnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biały Bór, within Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.[1]
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
Stepno is also part of the Russian place names Stepno-Baltay [2] in the Irkutsk region and Stepno-Durasovo [3] in the Samara region, as well as Russian place names Stepnoy or Stepnoye.
In the United States, Stepno begins to appear as a family name in census records[4] in the early twentieth century, used by immigrants giving their birthplace as Russia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and (as "de Stepno" or "di Stepno") Italy.
On the Internet, the domain http://stepno.com was registered 06-mar-2000 to serve as the home page for a United States based journalism, media studies and Web design professor by that name.
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ "Find the City database". 2015-06-29.
- ^ "find the City database". 2015-06-29.
- ^ "Surname search at FamilySearch".
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