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Osieck
Sign in to saveOsieck is a town in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Osieck.
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- Settlement.name
- Osieck
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- Town
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- Kościół parafialny pod wezwaniem Świętych Andrzeja i Bartłomieja.jpg
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- Saint Andrew and Saint Bartholomew church in Osieck
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- POL Osieck flag.svg
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- POL Osieck COA.svg
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- Country
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- Voivodeship
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- Masovian
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Otwock
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- Gmina
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- Osieck
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- Poland
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- bottom
- Settlement.population_total
- 920
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Osieck is a town in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Osieck.
==History== thumb|left|upright|Saint Andrew and Saint Bartholomew church in 1937 Osieck was the location of a hunting lodge of the Dukes of Mazovia of the Piast dynasty, and the place of death of Duke Konrad III Rudy in 1503. Osieck was granted town rights in 1558 by King Sigismund II Augustus. It was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. King Sigismund III Vasa and the Royal Court stayed in Osieck during the epidemics of 1625, 1629 and 1630. The town's prosperity was halted by the Swedish invasion in 1655.