page_title: Piaski
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Piaski / History
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Piaski - kościół parafialny p.w. Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego autor: Yarek shalom 20:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)yarek shalom
context_page_description: Piaski, formerly Piaski Luterskie, is a town in Poland at the Giełczew river. The town's population is about 2,660. Administratively it belongs to Świdnik County of the Lublin Voivodeship. It lies 16 km southeast of Świdnik.
context_section_description: The first mention of the village located near the site of the current town and called Pogorzały Staw comes from the 1401 document.  The first specific mention of Piaski occurs in the Latin chronicle of Jan Długosz from 1470 which calls the town "Pyassek alias Gyelczew" (alias here meaning formerly), where Giełczew is the name of another local village. Based on this evidence, it is thought that the town of Piaski came into existence some time in the first half of the 15th century on the lands formerly belonging to those two villages.  In the 16th and 17th centuries a significant part of the town's population was Protestant, hence it became known as Piaski Luterskie (Lutheran).
  Eventually, the town's Jewish community grew to eventually constitute two thirds of the total inhabitants. In 1795 during the Third Partition of Poland, the town became part of Habsburg Austria. In 1809 it briefly passed to the Polish Duchy of Warsaw, before becoming part of Congress Poland under Russian rule from 1815 onward. In 1869 Piaski lost its municipal rights as punishment for the January Uprising. After World War I, since 1918 it has belonged to reconstituted sovereign Poland. In 1921, Piaski had 2,674 Jews among its 3,974 inhabitants.
caption: Exaltation of the Holy Cross church
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