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Giecz

Giecz is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
in the administrative district of Gmina Dominowo

Gmina Dominowo

Gmina Dominowo is a rural gmina in Sroda Wielkopolska County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Dominowo, which lies approximately north-east of Sroda Wielkopolska and south-east of the regional capital Poznan....
, within Sroda Wielkopolska County

Sroda Wielkopolska County

Sroda Wielkopolska County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998....
, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznan Voivodeship, Kalisz Voivodeship, Konin Voivodeship, Pila Voivodeship and Leszno Voivodeship Voivodeships, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act....
, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Dominowo

Dominowo

Dominowo is a village in Sroda Wielkopolska County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Dominowo....
, north-east of Sroda Wielkopolska

Sroda Wielkopolska

Sroda Wielkopolska [] is a town in central Poland, about 30 km southeast of Poznan, with 21,631 inhabitants .It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship , previously in Poznan Voivodship ....
, and east of the regional capital Poznan

Poznan

Poznan is a city in west-central Poland with over 567,882 inhabitants . Located on the Warta River, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical centre and a vibrant centre of trade, industry, and education....
. The village has a population of 140.

Giecz was once one of the main centres of Polish statehood in the early Middle Ages

Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
, alongside Poznan

Poznan

Gniezno

Gniezno is a town in central-western Poland, some 50 km east of Poznan, inhabited by about 73,000 people. Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship , previously in Poznan Voivodeship....
. In the early 9th century a small keep was built on a mound on a peninsula on the Giecz lake; fortified with a stockade and earthworks, it was one of the key strongholds of the early Piast dynasty

Piast dynasty

Piast dynasty was the first Polish historical Royal dynasty that ruled Poland from its beginnings starting with the semi-legendary Piast the Wheelwright....
.

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Giecz is a village

Village

Gmina Dominowo

Sroda Wielkopolska County

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Dominowo

Dominowo is a village in Sroda Wielkopolska County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Dominowo....
, north-east of Sroda Wielkopolska

Sroda Wielkopolska

Poznan

Middle Ages

Poznan

Gniezno

Piast dynasty

Piast dynasty was the first Polish historical Royal dynasty that ruled Poland from its beginnings starting with the semi-legendary Piast the Wheelwright....
. In 1038 during a war with Bohemia

Bohemia

History...
, the place was seized by Bretislaus I

Bretislaus I of Bohemia

Bretislaus I , known as The Bohemian Achilles, of the house of the Premyslids, was the duke of Bohemia from 1035 till death.Bretislaus was a son of duke Oldrich of Bohemia and his would-be wife Bo?ena....
, who sacked the nearby settlement and sold its inhabitants into slavery. The place quickly recovered and by the 13th century was a centre of administration, trade and commerce in the Greater Poland

Greater Poland

Greater Poland or Great Poland, Polish Wielkopolska is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief city is Poznan. Administratively, most of the region now forms Greater Poland Voivodeship , although some parts lie in Lubusz Voivodeship, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and L?dz Voivodeship Voivodeships of Poland....
region. At about that time the settlement received a town charter and became the seat of a castellan

Castellan

A castellan was the governor or Property caretaker of a castle or keep. The word stems from the Latin Castellanus, derived from castellum 'castle'....
y. However, in 1331 it was burnt to the ground, never to recover.

After 1945 archaeologists discovered the remnants of a mediaeval pallatium

Palace

A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop....
, a pre-Romanesque rotunda

Rotunda (architecture)

A rotunda is any building with a circular ground plan, often covered by a dome. It can also refer to a round room within a building . The Pantheon, Rome in Rome is a famous rotunda....
, stone walls, a 13th-century palace and several sites of primitive iron-ore working.