Rozogi is a

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Szczytno County __NOTOC__ Szczytno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Rozogi __NOTOC__ Gmina Rozogi is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Szczytno County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Rozogi, Szczytno County, Rozogi, which lies approximately east of Szczytno and east ...

. It lies approximately east of

Szczytno Szczytno (;) is a town in northeastern Poland with 27,013 inhabitants (2007). It is the seat of Szczytno County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, within the historic region of Masuria. Olsztyn-Mazury Regional Airport, located nearby, is the m ...

and south-east of the regional capital

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. It is located in the historic region of

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History

The village was founded in 1448, although there are traces of earlier human settlement near the village, a former pagan cemetery. In 1811

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deposits were discovered there. The local Polish secret resistance was active and smuggled weapons through Rozogi to the nearby

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of Poland during the

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, and sheltered Polish insurgents fleeing the Russian Partition. In the late 19th century, the village had an exclusively Polish population of 2,171, mostly living off farming and smuggling cloth, tobacco and vodka to the nearby Russian Partition. There were three distilleries and two brickyards near the village. During

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, in 1944, the Polish

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seized a German military warehouse, obtaining equipment and ammunition.

References

Villages in Szczytno County 1448 establishments in Europe Populated places established in the 1440s {{Szczytno-geo-stub