Słupno is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Płock County __NOTOC__ Płock County ( pl, powiat płocki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ...

Masovian Voivodeship The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. The ...

, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Słupno __NOTOC__ Gmina Słupno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Słupno, which lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Płock and 86& ...

. It lies approximately south-east of

Płock Płock (pronounced ) is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by GUS on 31 December 2021, there were 116,962 inhabitants in the city. Its full ceremonial name, according to th ...

and west of

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. The village has a population of 790. The history of the village dates back to the 10th century, when a

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Slavic stronghold was built at the site. The oldest known mention of the village dates back to the 12th century. In 1254,

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Żyro (local administration official) granted the village to the

Płock Cathedral Płock Cathedral ( pl, Katedra Płocka), or the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Masovia, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Płock, in central Poland. It is an example of 12th-century Romanesque architecture and is the oldest ...

, and in 1443, Płock bishop Paweł Giżycki granted the village to

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Ścibor. During the

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(

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), Archbishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski, and suffragan Bishop , two of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs of World War II, were imprisoned in the village, before they were murdered in the

Soldau concentration camp The Soldau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II was a concentration camp for Polish and Jewish prisoners. It was located in Działdowo (german: Soldau), a town in north-eastern Poland, which after the Nazi-Soviet inv ...

in 1941.Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', IPN, Warszawa, 2009, p. 233 (in Polish) In 1942 the Germans carried out a massacre of 25 Polish inhabitants of Słupno and nearby settlements. There is a monument dedicated to the victims in the village. There is a historic preserved wooden church of St. Martin in the village.

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Villages in Płock County {{Płock-geo-stub