Pępowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
village in Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland
Pępowo [pɛmˈpɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żukowo, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is located in the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historical region of Pomerania.
History
Pępowo was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Pępowski family of Gozdawa coat of arms, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4977933. VIAF identifies the subject as 126833680. The Library of Congress control number is n96055609. Authority coordinates are 54.368, 18.395. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pępowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship” 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.