Przasnysz

Przasnysz began as a market settlement on the Węgierka, near a hunting court of the dukes of Mazovia. Its position between the Kurpie plain and the agricultural Ciechanów upland encouraged its growth. In 1427 Duke Janusz I granted the town privileges under Chełmno law. Przasnysz flourished in the sixteenth century, particularly after Mazovia was incorporated into the Polish Crown in 1526, and became a royal town and county seat. Its later fortunes, like those of many Masovian towns, were affected by the wars of the seventeenth century.