Gościno
city of Poland
Gościno (Polish: [ɡɔɕˈt͡ɕinɔ]; Kashubian: Gòscëno; German: Groß Jestin) is a small town in Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Gościno. It lies in Pomerania, approximately 14 km (9 mi) south-east of Kołobrzeg and 100 km (62 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.
The town has a population of 2,332.
History
The territory became part of the emerging Duchy of Poland under its first ruler Mieszko I around 967. The earliest documentation of the village of Gościno appears in the year 1238 as a property of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. The town's name derives from the Old Polish male name Gościmir. A main tourist site in Gościno, the Church of St. Andrew Bobola, houses a cup-shaped baptismal font hewn from one Gotland limestone boulder, from the 12th and 13th centuries.
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