Stepno

Stepno
Village
Country Poland Poland
Voivodeship West Pomeranian
County Szczecinek
Gmina Biały Bór

Stepno [ˈstɛpnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biały Bór, within Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.[1]

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

Stepno is also part of the Russian place names Stepno-Baltay [2] in the Irkutsk region and Stepno-Durasovo [3] in the Samara region, as well as Russian place names Stepnoy or Stepnoye.

In the United States, Stepno begins to appear as a family name in census records[4] in the early twentieth century, used by immigrants giving their birthplace as Russia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and (as "de Stepno" or "di Stepno") Italy.

On the Internet, the domain http://stepno.com was registered 06-mar-2000 to serve as the home page for a United States based journalism, media studies and Web design professor by that name.

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ "Find the City database". 2015-06-29.
  3. ↑ "find the City database". 2015-06-29.
  4. ↑ "Surname search at FamilySearch".


Coordinates: 53°49′20″N 16°44′48″E / 53.8223°N 16.7467°E / 53.8223; 16.7467

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, March 11, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.