Węsiory | |
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The church in Węsiory | |
Węsiory | |
Coordinates: 54°13′52″N 17°50′36″E / 54.23111°N 17.84333°E / 54.23111; 17.84333 | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
County | Kartuzy |
Gmina | Sulęczyno |
Population | 745 |
Website | http://wesiory.pl/ |
Węsiory is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulęczyno, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. 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.
References
- "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- 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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