Place in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
Stoczek Łukowski [ˈstɔt͡ʂɛk wuˈkɔfskʲi] Łuków County , in Lublin Voivodeship , in eastern Poland with 2,556 inhabitants (as of January 2018[update] Świder River .
Stoczek Łukowski belongs to the historic province of Mazovia , in which it was part of the Land of Czersk . In the 15th century, it was property of Bishops of Poznań , and was named "Wola Poznańska". In the 16th century documents, it was also called "Sebastianowo", probably after Bishop of Poznań Sebastian Branicki . Current name came into use in the 17th century.
History
Battle of Stoczek (1831), on a 1890 painting by Jan Rosen Stoczek Łukowski was first mentioned in the 13th century. On 4 April 1546, it was granted town charter by King Sigismund I the Old .
Following the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, the town was annexed by Austria . After the Polish victory in the Austro-Polish War of 1809, it was included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw . Following the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it became part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland . The Battle of Stoczek took place there on 14 February 1831 during the November Uprising . On 18 January 1849, Aleksander Świętochowski was born in Stoczek. Another famous person born here is Bishop Adolf Piotr Szelążek . Stoczek was one of main centers of the January Uprising , for which in 1867 it was stripped of town charter, and remained a village until 1916.
Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1944.
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