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Kleszczyna is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Złotów __NOTOC__ Gmina Złotów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Złotów, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina ...
, within
Złotów County __NOTOC__ Złotów County ( pl, powiat złotowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. Its administrative seat and largest town is Złotów, which lies north of ...
, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.


History

For centuries, the area was part of the Kingdom of Poland and the
Greater Poland Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; german: Großpolen, sv, Storpolen, la, Polonia Maior), is a Polish historical regions, historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed ...
region (often called the "cradle of Poland"), which beginning in the 10th-century formed the heart of the early Polish state. Kleszczyna was a private village of
Polish nobility The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
, administratively located in the Nakło County in the
Kalisz Voivodeship Kalisz Voivodeship may also refer to: *Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793) *Kalisz Voivodeship (1816–1837) The Kalisz Voivodeship was a voivodeship of the Congress Poland, that existed from 1816 to 1837. Its capital was Kalisz. It was established o ...
in the Greater Poland Province. During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, it was annexed by Prussia. From 1871 to 1945 it was part of Germany. During World War II, the Germans arrested local Polish teacher Bronisław Kokowski and then beheaded him in Berlin (see '' Nazi crimes against the Polish nation''). In 1945, it rejoined Poland.


References

Villages in Złotów County {{Złotów-geo-stub