Wyszowate w is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Trzcianne

Gmina Trzcianne

Gmina Trzcianne is a rural gmina in Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Trzcianne, which lies approximately south-west of Mońki and north-west of the regional capital Białystok....

, within Mońki County

Monki County

Mońki County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Mońki, which lies ...

, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship , is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusssian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and...

, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Trzcianne

Trzcianne

Trzcianne is a village in Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Trzcianne. It lies approximately south-west of Mońki and north-west of the regional capital Białystok. It is close to Biebrza National Park...

, 12 km (7 mi) south of Mońki

Monki

Mońki is a town in northeastern Poland and, as of 1999, is situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. From 1975 to 1998 it was part of the Białystok Voivodeship . It is the capital of Mońki County....

, and 36 km (22 mi) north-west of the regional capital Białystok.

History

Family nest of younger branch of the noble (szlachta

Szlachta

The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...

) family of Wiszowaty (using "Roch/Pirzchała" coat-of-arms ). The most famous member of the family was Andrzej Wiszowaty

Andrzej Wiszowaty

Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. was a Socinian theologian who worked with Joachim Stegmann on the Racovian Catechism of 1605, and taught at the Racovian Academy of the Polish Brethren....

 - 17th century philosopher and Socinian theologian.
The oldest information about the village was recorded in 1445 and lists three founders of the village: Stanisław, Mroczek and Jan Wiszowaty . The family Wiszowaty still lives there. The village was destroyed several times in the past. Last time during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 in August 1944 the village was almost totally burned down by Soviet Fighter aircraft

Fighter aircraft

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