Mosina
city in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Mosina [mɔˈɕina] is a town in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland, 21 km (13 mi) south of Poznań, with 12,107 inhabitants (2004). The Mosiński Canal runs east and west through the town, and joins the Warta River just to the east.
Etymology
The name is of Polish origin and comes from the Old Polish word moszyna, meaning a place covered with moss, and originally referred to a river.
History
Early history
The oldest known mention of Mosina comes from 1247, while in 1302 it was mentioned as a town. It was granted town rights by Kalisz voivode Mikołaj Przedpełkowic in c. 1302. The actual location did not occur until 1429, when King Władysław II Jagiełło granted Mosina Magdeburg rights, confirmed by subsequent Polish rulers. For centuries, Mosina was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. In the winter of 1659 and 1660, half of Stefan Czarniecki's banner was stationed in the town on its way from an expedition to liberate Denmark from Swedish occupation. The diarist Jan Chryzostom Pasek stopped here with them to convalesce after a bout of severe typhus. In 1761, the local Riflemen's Brotherhood was founded.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mosina” as city in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as city in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50968. VIAF identifies the subject as 130341144. The Library of Congress control number is n94092621. Authority coordinates are 52.244, 16.851. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1247, 1302 and 1429.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
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Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Mosina”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Mosina primary sources, Mosina archive and Mosina research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Mosina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.