Jasienica - Silesia (PL)

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Jasienica is a village and the seat of Gmina Jasienica, Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has a population of 5,242. It is located in the Silesian Foothills and in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The Polish name is of topographic origins and is derived from ash trees.

After Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire a modern municipal division was introduced in the re-established Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the political and legal district of Bielsko. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 1673 in 1880 to 2365 in 1910.

After World War I, fall of Austria-Hungary, Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of Poland. It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Poland.

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Jasienica to Sztropkow (Now Stropkov in Slovakia). Jasienica in southern Poland. Further evidence is the note "Per Dukla"; Dukla is also a town in southern Poland, and the Dukla Pass would have been the path through which this card traveled between Jasienica and Stropkov.

Reverse. - Stropkov was an important center of Hasidic studies, perhaps accounting for this card being written in cursive Hebrew.