Pniewo | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Masovian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Pułtusk |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Zatory |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 52.65°N 37°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | WPU |
Pniewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zatory, within Pułtusk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8km (05miles) north-east of Zatory, 140NaN0 south-east of Pułtusk, and 520NaN0 north of Warsaw.
Pniewo was a private church village within the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on September 9, 1939, Wehrmacht troops murdered a dozen or so Poles from the nearby town of Wyszków near the village (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2]