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{{See also|Rozogi, Mrągowo County}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Rozogi
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = Parafia Świętej Marii Magdaleny w Rozogach.jpg
| image_caption = Church of Saint Mary Magdalene
| subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship|Warmian-Masurian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Szczytno County|Szczytno]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Rozogi|Rozogi]]
| established_title = Founded
| established_date = 1448
| coordinates = {{coord|53|29|1|N|21|21|28|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 1418
| registration_plate = NSZ
| blank_name_sec2 = Primary airport
| blank_info_sec2 = [[Olsztyn-Mazury Airport]]
| blank1_name_sec2 = [[National roads in Poland|National roads]]
| blank1_info_sec2 = [[File:DK53-PL.svg|32px|link=National road 53 (Poland)]] [[File:DK59-PL.svg|32px]]
| website = http://www.rozogi.pl
}}
'''Rozogi''' {{IPAc-pl|r|o|'|z|o|g|i}} is a [[village]] in [[Szczytno County]], [[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship]], in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the [[gmina]] (administrative district) called [[Gmina Rozogi]].<ref name="TERYT">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=pl}}</ref> It lies approximately {{convert|27|km|mi|0}} east of [[Szczytno]] and {{convert|66|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-east of the regional capital [[Olsztyn]]. It is located in the historic region of [[Masuria]].
==History==
The village was founded in 1448, although there are traces of earlier human settlement near the village, a former pagan cemetery.<ref name=sgk/> In 1811 [[amber]] deposits were discovered there.<ref name=sgk/> The local [[Resistance movements in partitioned Poland (1795–1918)|Polish secret resistance]] was active and smuggled weapons through Rozogi to the nearby [[Russian Partition]] of Poland during the [[January Uprising]], and sheltered Polish insurgents fleeing the Russian Partition.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Groniewska|first=Barbara|year=1960|title=Rola Prus Wschodnich w powstaniu styczniowym|magazine=Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie|language=pl|issue=1|pages=15–16, 22, 31–32, 39}}</ref> In the late 19th century, the village had an exclusively [[Polish people|Polish]] population of 2,171, mostly living off farming and smuggling cloth, tobacco and vodka to the nearby Russian Partition.<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IX|year=1888|language=pl|location=Warsaw|page=842}}</ref> There were three distilleries and two brickyards near the village.<ref name=sgk/> During [[World War II]], in 1944, the Polish [[Home Army]] seized a German military warehouse, obtaining equipment and ammunition.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Brenda|first=Waldemar|year=2007|title=Pogranicze Prus Wschodnich i Polski w działaniach polskiej konspiracji w latach II wojny światowej|journal=Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie|issue=4|language=pl|page=517}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Gmina Rozogi}}
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[[Category:Villages in Szczytno County]]
[[Category:1448 establishments in Europe]]
[[Category:Populated places established in the 1440s]]
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