Mszczonów
Also known as Mszczonow
Mszczonów is a town in Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 6,231 inhabitants as of the 2006 census. It is situated just outside the Warsaw metropolitan area, approximately from Warsaw city centre.
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- Locality
- Mszczonów
- Region
- województwo mazowieckie
- Country
- Polska
- Population
- 6,267
- Timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
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Mszczonów is a town in Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 6,231 inhabitants as of the 2006 census. It is situated just outside the Warsaw metropolitan area, approximately from Warsaw city centre.
==History== thumb|left|upright|Saint John the Baptist church The oldest known mention of Mszczonów comes from a document of Duke Konrad I of Masovia from 1245, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. Mszczonów was granted town rights in 1377 or earlier. It was a county seat and royal town of Poland, administratively located in the Rawa Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. One of two main routes connecting Warsaw and Dresden ran through the town in the 18th century and Kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route.
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