Dziecinów is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Grabów nad Pilicą, within
Kozienice County,
Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
It lies approximately east of
Grabów nad Pilicą, north-west of
Kozienice
Kozienice (; yi, קאזשניץ ''Kozhnits''; german: Koschnitz) is a town in eastern Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995). Located four miles from the Vistula, it is the capital of Kozienice County.
Even though Kozienice is part of Lesser Pol ...
, and south of
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
. From 1975 to 1998 the village was in
Radom Voivodeship
Radom Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Masovian Voivodeship. Its capital city was Radom.
Major cities and towns (population in 1995)
* Radom (232,300)
...
.
The village includes the districts of Adamów and Grzybowszczyzna.
Battle of Kuznow
Remnants of the 22nd Infantry Division, 1st Corps of the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
, were engaged by pursuing
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ger ...
troops, led by Captain Jan Mieszkowski, and destroyed on 14 October 1914, as they attempted to retreat from the
Battle of Tannenberg.
References
Villages in Kozienice County
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