Jaktorów

Village

Monument to the last aurochs

Coat of arms

Jaktorów

Coordinates: 52°5′N 20°31′E / 52.083°N 20.517°E

Population

910

Jaktorów [jakˈtɔruf] is a village in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Jaktorów.^[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Grodzisk Mazowiecki and 37 km (23 mi) south-west of Warsaw.

The village has a population of 910.

The last recorded live aurochs (or urus (Bos primigenius), in Polish tur - the ancestor of domestic cattle, was a type of huge wild cattle which inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa), a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland. The skull was later stolen by the Swedish Army during the Swedish invasion of Poland (1655–1660) and is now the property of Livrustkammaren in Stockholm.

References

↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT(National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.

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Gmina Jaktorów

Seat	Jaktorów

Other villages	Bieganów Budy Michałowskie Budy Zosine Budy-Grzybek Chylice Chylice-Kolonia Chylice-Osada Grabnik Grądy Henryszew Jaktorów-Kolonia Jaktorów-Osada Kołaczek Mariampol Maruna Międzyborów Sade Budy Stare Budy

Coordinates: 52°5′N 20°31′E / 52.083°N 20.517°E / 52.083; 20.517

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