Węsiory Explained

Węsiory
Settlement Type:	Village
Total Type:
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:	Pomeranian
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Kartuzy
Subdivision Type3:	Gmina
Subdivision Name3:	Sulęczyno
Coordinates:	54.2311°N 17.8433°W
Pushpin Map:	Poland
Pushpin Label Position:	right
Population Total:	745
Website:	http://wesiory.pl/

Węsiory is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulęczyno, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] The village lies approximately 5km (03miles) east of Sulęczyno, 260NaN0 south-west of Kartuzy, and 540NaN0 west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

Near the village is a concentration of stone circles and burial places of the Wielbark Culture.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
2. Adam Cieśliński, "Chapter 7: The society of Wielbark culture, AD 1–300", in: Przemysław Urbańczyk, ed., The Past Societies: Polish Lands From the First Evidence of Human Presence to the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 4: 500 BC–500 AD, ed. Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz, trans. Anna Kinecka, Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016, pp. 217–55, pp. 224, 234, 238.