Jasło

Starosty in Jaslo, Gazebo in City Park, Palace, Parish Church, Church of Sts. Stanislaus, Promenade and historic buildings, Jewish Cemetery, Tadeusz Kosciuszko Monument

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Jasło

Coordinates: 49°44′52″N 21°28′17″E / 49.74778°N 21.47139°E

Country

Poland

Jasło (urban gmina)

Established

12th century

Town rights

1365

Government

• Mayor

Andrzej Czernecki

Area

• Total

36.52 km² (14.10 sq mi)

Highest elevation

380 m (1,250 ft)

Lowest elevation

225 m (738 ft)

Population (2012)

• Total

36,641

• Density

1,000/km² (2,600/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

38-200 to 38-211

Area code(s)

+48 13

Car plates

RJS

Website

http://www.jaslo.pl/

Jasło [ˈjaswɔ] (German: Jassel) is a county town in south-eastern Poland with 36,641 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2012. It is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Krosno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is located in Lesser Poland, in the heartland of the Doły (Pits), and its average altitude is 320 metres above sea level, although there are some hills located within the confines of the city. The Patron Saint of Jasło is Saint Anthony of Padua.

In the early days of Polish statehood, Jasło was part of the Castellany of Biecz, out of which Biecz County emerged in the 14th century. The area of the future town belonged to a Cisterian Abbey from Koprzywnica, and by the mid 13th century, Jasło, known then as Jasiel or Jasiol, had a fair of local importance. Together with a number of other locations in Lesser Poland, the village was granted Magdeburg rights by King Casimir III the Great, on April 23, 1366. In 1368 the king made a transaction with the Cisterian monks - in exchange for the town of Frysztak, and the villages of Glinik and Kobyle, Jasło became a royal town. It already had a parish church, founded before 1325 by King Władysław I of Poland. The parish had a school, and in the mid-14th century, Carmelite brothers came to the town.

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