Lasaki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Coordinates: | 50.1894°N 18.2481°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name1: | Silesian |
Subdivision Name2: | Racibórz |
Subdivision Name3: | Rudnik |
Total Type: | |
Population Total: | 220 |
Lasaki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudnik, within Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9km (06miles) north-east of Rudnik, 120NaN0 north of Racibórz, and 540NaN0 west of the regional capital Katowice.
The name of the village probably originates from the word Lasok, which referred to the workers of the forest. For the first time mentioned in the fifteenth century as a hamlet Sławikowa Sławikowski called Upper Las.[2]