Węsiory

Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
54°13′52″N 17°50′36″E / 54.23111°N 17.84333°E / 54.23111; 17.84333Country PolandVoivodeshipPomeranianCountyKartuzyGminaSulęczynoPopulation
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Węsiory [vɛ̃ˈɕɔrɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulęczyno, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] The village lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of Sulęczyno, 26 km (16 mi) south-west of Kartuzy, and 54 km (34 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

Near the village is a concentration of stone circles and burial places of the Wielbark Culture.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ Adam Cieśliński, "Chapter 7: The society of Wielbark culture, AD 1–300", in: Przemysław Urbańczyk, ed., The Past Societies: Polish Lands From the First Evidence of Human Presence to the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 4: 500 BC–500 AD, ed. Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz, trans. Anna Kinecka, Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016, pp. 217–55, pp. 224, 234, 238.

Gallery - Iron Age stone circles and burial places

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