Różan
Różan is a town in Mazovian Voivodeship, northeastern Poland, on the river Narew. National roads 60 and 61 intersect in the town. History In the late Middle Ages, Różan emerged as an important trade center of northeastern Mazovia. Enjoying the support of Mazovian Dukes, especially Janusz I of Warsaw, in 1378 it received town charter, and became a capital of a separate province, the Land of Różan. In 1525, Mazovia was directly incorporated to the Kingdom of Poland and became part of the Masovian Voivodeship of the Greater Poland Province. Różan became a royal town of the Polish Crown and seat of a starosta. In 1565, the town had 330 houses and a population of about 2,000. It also probably had as many as six churches, and a castle, which guarded the nearby border with Ducal Prussia, a Polish fief. Furthermore, there was a bridge over the Narew, which fortified the importance of Rozan as a trade and administrative center. The town prospered until the disastrous Swed ...
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Gmina Różan
__NOTOC__ Gmina Różan is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Maków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Różan, which lies approximately east of Maków Mazowiecki and north of Warsaw. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 4,423 (out of which the population of Różan amounts to 2,661, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 1,762). Villages Apart from the town of Różan, Gmina Różan contains the villages and settlements of Chełsty, Masovian Voivodeship, Chełsty, Chrzczonki, Dąbrówka, Gmina Różan, Dąbrówka, Dyszobaba, Dzbądz, Kaszewiec, Miłony, Mroczki-Rębiszewo, Podborze, Maków County, Podborze, Prycanowo, Szygi, Załęże Wielkie, Załęże-Eliasze, Załęże-Gartki, Załęże-Sędzięta, Załuzie and Zawady-Ponikiew. Ne