Poświętne is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Wołomin County __FORCETOC__ Wołomin County () is a territorial and administrative division in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The administrative ...

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called Gmina Poświętne. It lies approximately east of

Wołomin Wołomin is a town in the Warsaw metropolitan area in the Masovian Voivodship, seat of Wołomin County. Wołomin is situated approximately east of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, near the railway to Białystok. It has approximately 43,000 inhabit ...

and north-east of

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

. It became a gmina in place of

Cygów Cygów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poświętne, Masovian Voivodeship, Gmina Poświętne, within Wołomin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Wołomin and north-east of Wars ...

gmina and parish with its council, at the very end of the XIXth c., after the manor of Cygów was demolished and the estate auctioned off during Russian rule.Théodore de Korwin Szymanowski, ''l'Avenir économique, social etpolitique en Europe'', Paris 1888, Ed. H. Marot. http://www.msz.gov.pl/pl/ministerstwo/publikacje/biblioteka_jednosci_europejskiej/przyszlosc_europy_w_zakresie_gospodarczym__spolecznym_i_politycznym__l_avenir_economique__social___politique_en_europe. (This is a re-issue in 2015 of Teodor Szymanowski's 1885 blueprint, written as a valedictory in Cygów, for the economic and political future in Europe, in Polish and French. The Postface by Prof. Żurowski vel Grajewski contains biographical detail).

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Villages in Wołomin County {{Wołomin-geo-stub