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{{Other places|Borowo (disambiguation){{!}}Borowo}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Borowo
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Borowo 01.jpg
| image_caption = Historic manor in Borowo
| image_flag =
| image_shield =
| image_map =
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Greater Poland Voivodeship|Greater Poland]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kościan County|Kościan]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Czempiń|Czempiń]]
| coordinates = {{coord|52|7|N|16|47|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = right
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 580
| website =
}}
'''Borowo''' {{IPAc-pl|b|o|'|r|o|w|o}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Czempiń]], within [[Kościan County]], [[Greater Poland Voivodeship]], in west-central Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|6|km|mi|0}} south of [[Czempiń]], {{convert|10|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of [[Kościan]], and {{convert|33|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of the regional capital [[Poznań]].

==History==
Borowo was a private village of [[szlachta|Polish nobility]], administratively located in the Kościan County in the [[Poznań Voivodeship (14th century to 1793)|Poznań Voivodeship]] in the [[Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown]].<ref>''Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany'', Institute of History, [[Polish Academy of Sciences]], Warsaw, 2017, p. 1a (in Polish)</ref> In the mid-19th century it was owned by the Mizerski family.<ref>Leon Plater, ''Opisanie historyczno-statystyczne Wielkiego Księztwa Poznańskiego'', Księgarnia Zagraniczna, [[Leipzig|Lipsk]], 1846, p. 213 (in Polish)</ref>

During the [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation of Poland]] ([[World War II]]), the principal of the local primary school, Józef Wojciechowski, was murdered in a public execution of 18 [[Polish people|Poles]] carried out in the nearby town of [[Kościan]] on 23 October 1939, by the ''[[Einsatzgruppen|Einsatzgruppe VI]]'' as part of the ''[[Intelligenzaktion]]''.<ref>Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', [[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]], Warsaw, 2009, p. 198 (in Polish)</ref> Inhabitants of Borowo were also among the victims of a massacre of 45 Poles carried out on 7 November 1939, in the forest near Kościan.<ref>Wardzyńska, pp. 200-201</ref>

==References==
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{{Gmina Czempiń}}

[[Category:Villages in Kościan County]]

{{Kościan-geo-stub}}

Borowo, Kościan County - Revision history

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