[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Tschichanowitz

[Rachael Patterson]

Yes to Frank Stewner's reply. Grodno was a part of Russian Poland, also
known as The Pale of Settlement or Cherta Osedlosti. This can be viewed on
one of my maps abt 1908, within my book Homeland Lost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QOvGHC7HU

All the Best! Greetings from Calgary, AB, Canada

GJ Rachael Patterson


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> ???????, 27 ??????? 2015, 6:09 +01:00 ?? "Frank Stewner" <
> dr.stewner at t-online.de>:
> >Hi,
> >
> >that "witz" means in German joke and indicates to me that Germans have
> >altered the proper name.
> >
> >And my first best guess was "Ciechanow". I looked up the SGGEE Poland
> >Gazetteer and found:
> >
> >Ciechanowiec, Wysokie Mazowieckie, Podlaskie, Poland          524254
> 223000
> >PL 18-230.
> >
> >It is the capital of a "gmina" and has 4902 inhabitants tells me
> >www.mapa.szukacz.pl
> >
> >?
> >
> >Grodno lays some 160 km NE of it in Belarus. In former times it was part
> of
> >the "Russian Poland". Grodno is the capital of the Grodno region and has
> >356557 inhabitants, says Wikipedia.en.
> >
> >?
> >
> >Greetings from Hamburg
> >
> >Frank (Stewner)
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >