Orło | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Masovian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Ostrów Mazowiecka |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Małkinia Górna |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 52.75°N 80°W |
Registration Plate: | WOR |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship road |
Orło is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Małkinia Górna, within Ostrów Mazowiecka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8km (05miles) north-west of Małkinia Górna, 80NaN0 south-east of Ostrów Mazowiecka, and 900NaN0 north-east of Warsaw.
Orło was a private church village of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.
In 1823, the village had a population of 33.[2]
During the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, on September 9, 1939, German troops carried out a massacre of 10 Poles (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3]