Mokrsko is a

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Wieluń County __NOTOC__ Wieluń County ( pl, powiat wieluński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reform ...

, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Mokrsko __NOTOC__ Gmina Mokrsko is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Mokrsko, which lies approximately south-west of Wieluń and south-west of the regional cap ...

. It lies approximately south-west of Wieluń and south-west of the regional capital

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History

The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler

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in the 10th century. Mokrsko was the ancestral seat of the Kożuchowski noble family of

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, who lived there since the 14th century. Before 1500, the family founded the local Catholic parish and church. The village was administratively located in the Ostrzeszów County in the

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in the Greater Poland Province. In 1827, Mokrsko had a population of 797. During the

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(

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), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were either enslaved as

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in the region or deported to the

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in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland. Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to

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colonists as part of the ''

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'' policy.

Administrative division

Several adjacent settlements are considered part of Mokrsko:

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, Kośnik, Majorat, Mokrsko Rządowe, Poduchowne, Wiatraki, Wola Mokrska, Zimna Woda.

References

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