Bogoria is a town in

Staszów County __NOTOC__ Staszów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pass ...

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

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Bogoria __NOTOC__ Gmina Bogoria is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. From 1975–1998 it was part of the former Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship. The gmina seat is the city of Bogo ...

. It lies approximately north-east of

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and south-east of the regional capital

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. Bogoria belongs to historic

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. It is notable for its 18th-century

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church of Holy Trinity, which was built by the

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Michał Konarski, in 1748–1778, replacing a wooden church from 1620.

History

The name of the village comes from the Bogoria family, which resided in the nearby village of Skotniki. In 1578, Bogoria was a small settlement, and a local nobleman named Krzysztof Bogoria Podlecki decided to found here a town. In 1616, King

Zygmunt III Waza Sigismund III Vasa (, ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Relig ...

granted it

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, and Bogoria quickly developed, with its own town hall, artisans and eight

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s every year. The town belonged to

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in the Lesser Poland Province, and like other locations, it was completely destroyed by Swedish soldiers in the

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(1655–1660). In 1662, it had only 300 inhabitants, and by 1676, the population shrank to 100. In the 18th century, the situation improved, with merchants and cloth makers opening their shops here. In 1770, however, Bogoria burned, together with the town hall. By 1827, when after the

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, the town belonged to the Russian-controlled

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, it had a population of 425, with 73 houses. Bogoria lost its town charter after the

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(1869), together with a number of other towns of northern Lesser Poland. During

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, Bogoria was one of centers of the

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. In December 1942, the

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resistance organization attacked a German train, robbing it of 30 tons of sugar, and killed a local German spy.

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was distributed in Bogoria. The Germans destroyed 80% of the village.

Demography

According to the 2002 Poland census, there were 1,038 people residing in Bogoria village, of whom 47.6% were male and 52.4% were female. In the village, the population was spread out, with 26.6% under the age of 18, 37.6% from 18 to 44, 17.2% from 45 to 64, and 18.6% who were 65 years of age or older.

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Figure 1. Population pyramid of village in 2002 — by age group and sex

References

{{Gmina Bogoria Cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Staszów County