Przasnysz
Przasnysz () is a town in north-central Poland, located in the Masovian Voivodship, about north of Warsaw and about south of Olsztyn. It is the capital of Przasnysz County. It has 18,093 inhabitants (2004). It was one of the most important towns in Mazovia during the Middle Ages. Przasnysz was granted town privileges in 1427.
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Przasnysz () is a town in north-central Poland, located in the Masovian Voivodship, about north of Warsaw and about south of Olsztyn. It is the capital of Przasnysz County. It has 18,093 inhabitants (2004). It was one of the most important towns in Mazovia during the Middle Ages. Przasnysz was granted town privileges in 1427.
== History == thumb|left|Gothic architecture|Gothic and Passionist Monastery The oldest traces of settlement in the area of Przasnysz come from the turn of the Bronze and Iron Age (around 700 BC). In the 13th century in Przasnysz, on the , there was a market settlement. There was also a hunting court of the Mazovian princes, described by Henryk Sienkiewicz in The Knights of the Cross. The name of the city according to folk sources comes from the miller Przaśnik, who hosted the stray hunting Duke Konrad I of Masovia and was then knighted with the surrounding lands.