Lasaki

Lasaki
Village
Lasaki
Coordinates: 50°11′22″N 18°14′53″E / 50.18944°N 18.24806°E / 50.18944; 18.24806
Country Poland Poland
Voivodeship Silesian
County Racibórz
Gmina Rudnik
Population 220

Lasaki [laˈsaki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudnik, within Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Rudnik, 12 km (7 mi) north of Racibórz, and 54 km (34 mi) west of the regional capital Katowice. Hamlet had a German name Lassoky [1], in the years 1936 - 1945 Weidenmoor [1] .

Name of the village probably comes from the word Lasok, which meant the workers of the forest. For the first time mentioned in the fifteenth century as a hamlet Sławikowa Sławikowski called Upper Las. ( Anna Bindacz: Gmina Rudnik - the land of castles and green. Racibórz: Wydawnictwo i Agencja Wydawnicza WAW Grzegorz Wawoczny, 2005, s. 20. ISBN 83-89802-09-0 . Racibórz: Publishing and the Publishing Agency WAW Wawoczny Gregory, 2005, p. 20 )

The village has a population of 220.

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.


Coordinates: 50°11′22″N 18°14′53″E / 50.18944°N 18.24806°E / 50.18944; 18.24806

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