Piekoszów is a town in

Kielce County __NOTOC__ Kielce 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 passe ...

Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship ( ), also known as Holy Cross Voivodeship, is a voivodeship (province) in southeastern Poland, in the historical region of Lesser Poland. The province's capital and largest city is Kielce. The voivodeship takes its ...

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

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Piekoszów __NOTOC__ Gmina Piekoszów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Its seat is the city of Piekoszów, which lies approximately west of the regional capital Kielce. The ...

. It lies approximately west of the regional capital

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History

Piekoszów was the former seat of the

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. In 1366, Piotr Odrowąż founded a parish church in Piekoszów. It was administratively located in the

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in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. According to the 1921 census, the population was 94.4%

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and 5.6%

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. Following the German-Soviet

invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Second Polish Republic, Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak R ...

, which started

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in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany.

References

Cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Kielce County {{Kielce-geo-stub