Brzozów

Coat of arms

Brzozów

Coordinates: 49°42′N 22°01′E / 49.700°N 22.017°E

Poland

Government

• Mayor

Józef Rzepka

Area

• Total

11.45 km² (4.42 sq mi)

Population (2006)

• Total

7,705

• Density

670/km² (1,700/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

36-200

Car plates

RBR, KSD, KUD, KUB

Website

http://www.brzozow.pl

Brzozów [ˈbʐɔzuf] (Ukrainian: Березів, Bereziv; Yiddish: ברעזשוב‎ Brezhov; lat. Brozovia, or Prozzow) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 7,677 inhabitants (02.06.2009). It is situated in Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999) and is the seat of both Brzozów County and the smaller administrative district of Gmina Brzozów. It lies 38 kilometres (24 mi) south of the city of Rzeszów.

Brzozów was founded in 1359, Brzozów took on the name of an earlier, adjacent settlement of the 14th century, which gradually over time came to be known as Stara Wieś (Old Village). A large Jesuit Basilica and Monastery, built in 1760, is found in Stara Wieś. Queen Mary donated Brzozów and four other villages to the Bishops of Przemyśl in 1384. From the middle 14th to the early 19th centuries, the Bishops of Przemyśl resided principally at Brzozów.

Tatar attacks took place in 1525, 1623–25, 1629 and with heavy losses in 1674. Afterwards, Brzozów declined commercially until the 19th century.

From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province (Crownland).

Before World War II there was a Jewish community of about 1300 in Brzozów. All were sent to death camps or murdered by the Nazis during the war. Since then, there has been no Jewish presence in the town.

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