Sokołowo, Września County

Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

52°20′49″N 17°33′59″E / 52.34694°N 17.56639°E / 52.34694; 17.56639Country

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Sokołowo [sɔkɔˈwɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Września, within Września County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) north-west of Września and 45 km (28 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań.

The village existed before 1523.^[2] In the past it was owned by the Polish noble Poniński family, including participant of the November Uprising of 1830–1831, Edward Poniński [pl].^[2]

During the Greater Poland uprising, on May 2, 1848, Sokołowo was the site the Battle of Sokołowo [pl], in which the Polish insurgents commanded by general, poet and historian Ludwik Mierosławski won against the Prussians.^[3] Poles from the nearby town of Września erected a monument at the site several months later despite Prussian rule.^[3]

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ ^a ^b Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Vol. XI, Warsaw, 1890, pp. 37–38 (in Polish)
^ ^a ^b "Historia miasta". Wrzesnia.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 24 May 2020.