Boguszowice is a district of

Cieszyn Cieszyn ( , ; ; ) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town has 33,500 inhabitants ( and lies opposite Český Těšín in the Czech Repu ...

Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland ...

, Poland. It was a separate municipality, but became administratively a part of

in 1973. On 31 January 1290 the duke

Mieszko Mieszko is a Slavic given name of uncertain origin. Onomastics There are three major theories concerning the origin and meaning of the name of Duke Mieszko I of Poland. The most popular theory, proposed by Jan Długosz, explains that Mieszko is a ...

gave his knight ''Bogusz'' 10 Franconian

łan Lan ( Polish: ''łan'' ; German: ''Lahn''; Latin: ''laneus'') is an old unit of field measurement used in Poland. Since the 13th century, its value has varied from one location to another. A ''greater łan'' (also Franconian, King's, Old Poli ...

s of land to form a new village. This document was the very first when Mieszko used the title of ''Duke of Cieszyn'', thus when the new

Duchy of Teschen The Duchy of Teschen (), also Duchy of Cieszyn () or Duchy of Těšín (), was one of the Duchies of Silesia centered on Cieszyn () in Upper Silesia. It was split off the Silesian Duchy of Opole and Racibórz in 1281 during the feudal divisio ...

began to exist. The new village of ''Bogusovici'' was however not mentioned in ''Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis'' around 1305, but as a fully developed village it was mentioned in 1388, when it was sold by two knights ''Jaśko'' and ''Janusz'' from Ogrodzona to ''Bielik'' from Kornice and his mother, ''Juta''.I. Panic, 2010, p. 299-300 As so it is clear that it was a patrimonial knights' village, and the price of it was similar to other fully developed villages of that time. Since 1425 the village was given by Cieszyn citizen ''Jan Scholz'' to the hospital located in ''Frysztackie suburb'' of Cieszyn. Under the international bridge between Poland and the Czech Republic a

bunker A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks. Bunkers are almost always underground, in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground. T ...

from the 1930s is located.

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* Neighbourhoods in Silesian Voivodeship Cieszyn {{Cieszyn-geo-stub