Mokotów , is a ''

dzielnica In the Poland, Polish system of local administration, a dzielnica (Polish plural ''dzielnice'') is an administrative subdivision or quarter (country subdivision), quarter of a city or town. A dzielnica may have its own elected council (''rada dzi ...

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) of

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, the

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. Mokotów is densely populated, and is a seat to many foreign embassies and companies. Only a small part of the district is lightly industrialised (''

Służewiec Przemysłowy Służewiec Przemysłowy (, ''Industrial Służewiec'') is a neighborhood in the Mokotów district in Warsaw which contains a lot of offices and a few remaining factories. In Warsaw the area has the comical nickname "Mordor". History and busines ...

''), while the majority is full of parks and green areas (

Mokotów Field Mokotów Field ( Polish: ''Pole Mokotowskie'') is a large park in Warsaw, Poland. A part of the parkland is called Józef Piłsudski Park. Located between Warsaw's Mokotów district and the city center, the park is one of the largest in Warsaw. ...

). Although the area has been populated at least since the early

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, it was not until early 1916 when Mokotów was incorporated into

. The name of the area, first appearing as the village of Mokotowo in documents from the year 1367, has unclear origins. It is hypothesised to have come from the name of a German owner of the village, who called himself Mokoto or Mokot, however no exact reference to such an individual can be found in the historical records. Most of the area was urbanised and redeveloped throughout the 1930s in the style of

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. The majority of the buildings survived

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, making it one of the few well-preserved pre-war areas of

Mokotów Prison Mokotów Prison ( pl, Więzienie mokotowskie, also known as ''Rakowiecka Prison'') is a prison in Warsaw's borough of Mokotów, Poland, located at 37 Rakowiecka Street. It was built by the Russians in the final years of the foreign Partitions of ...

is located within the borough. The residential real estate market in Mokotów, particularly in the neighbourhoods of

Stary Mokotów Stary is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Rob Stary Robert Stary is a former Australian criminal defence lawyer and current Magistrate at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court. He is well known for defending Julian Assange, as w ...

and Wyględów, ranks among the most expensive in Warsaw.

Subdivisions of Mokotów

Administrative units

The following lower-level administrative units (''

osiedle Osiedle (Polish plural: ''osiedla'', from German ''Ansiedlung'' meaning ''settlement'') is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its dzielnica, or of a town, with its own council and executive. Li ...

'') are established within Mokotow (they do not cover the whole district). *

Sadyba Sadyba is a neighborhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. It has an administrative status of ''osiedle'' within the city. Sadyba can be divided into Old Sadyba, mainly upper class housing, and New-Sadyba with modern retail stores and commun ...

Służewiec Południowy Służewiec (Polish pronunciation: ) is a neighbourhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. From the 1990s, the former industrial part of Służewiec and the functionally related western part of Ksawerów began to be intensively developed w ...

( Southern Sluzewiec) *

Służewiec Fort Służewiec (Polish pronunciation: ) is a neighbourhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. From the 1990s, the former industrial part of Służewiec and the functionally related western part of Ksawerów began to be intensively developed w ...

Subdivisions

City Information System

Administratively defined in 1996, this district is divided into following areas: *

* Sielce *

Czerniaków Czerniaków is a neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and the river itself. Called ''Czerniakowo'' since the Middle Ages, it was then merely a small village loca ...

Siekierki Siekierki is a neighborhood in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. It's a sparsely inhabited and poorly developed area located beside the Vistula The Vistula (; pl, Wisła, ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest river i ...

* Augustówka *

* Stegny * Wierzbno * Ksawerów *

Służew Służew, historically until 16th century known as Służewo, is a residential neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Mokotów. Landmarks and transport Służew ...

* Służewiec * Wyględów

Historical

While the following subdivisions have no formal, administrative status, they are recognised in everyday life. *Górny Mokotów (

Upper Mokotow Upper may refer to: * Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot * Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both * ''Upper'', the original film title for the 2013 found f ...

) **

** Wierzbno ** Ksawerów ** Wyględów **

Królikarnia Królikarnia (in English, "The Rabbit House") is a historic classicist palace in Warsaw, Poland; and a neighborhood in the Mokotów district of Warsaw. Since 1965 the palace has housed a museum dedicated to Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski. Hi ...

** Służewiec **

*Dolny Mokotów ( Lower Mokotow) ** Sielce **

** Augustówka ** Stegny **

Gallery

File:3 Sułkowickiego Street - Czerwona willa 02.jpg, Red Villa on Sułkowskiego Street File:Warszawa-Królikarnia.jpg, Królikarnia Palace File:Palace ensemble Sielce DSC 2389.JPG, Sielce Mansion on Cybulskiego Street File:Stacja metra Wierzbno 2015.JPG,

Warsaw Metro The Warsaw Metro ( pl, Metro Warszawskie) is a rapid transit underground system serving the Polish capital Warsaw. It currently consists of two lines, the north-south Line M1 which links central Warsaw with its densely populated northern and sout ...

, Station Wierzbno File:Warszawa-Pałac Szustra pn.jpg, Sztuster Palace File:Szturmowa 1-2-3 Warszawa.jpg, Faculty of Management (University of Warsaw) on Szturmowa Street File:Sgh c madalinskiego.jpg, Warsaw School of Economics building on Madalińskiego Street File:Poranne mgły na działkach na Augustówce w Warszawie.JPG, Allotment plots on Augustówka and part of Czerniakowskie Lake

External links

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