Węsiory (
Kashubian: ''Wãsórë''; german: Wensiorry. 1942-45: Wensern) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Sulęczyno, within
Kartuzy County,
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province ( Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk.
Th ...
, in northern Poland.
The village lies approximately east of
Sulęczyno
Sulęczyno ( csb, Sëlëczëno, german: Sullenschin) is a village in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Sulęczyno. It lies approximately west of Kartuz ...
, south-west of
Kartuzy, and west of the regional capital
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
. It has a population of 754.
For details of the history of the region, see ''
History of Pomerania
The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and ...
''.
Near the village is a concentration of
stone circle
A stone circle is a ring of standing stones. Most are found in Northwestern Europe – especially in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany – and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with most being built from 3000 BC. The ...
s and burial places of the
Wielbark Culture.
[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.]
References
Gallery - Iron Age stone circles and burial places
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Villages in Kartuzy County
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