Kosów Lacki

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Kosów Lacki

| image_skyline = Kosów Lacki - Kościół p.w. Narodzenia NMP.jpg

| image_caption = Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary

| image_shield = POL gmina Kosów Lacki COA.svg

| pushpin_map = Poland

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Masovian

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Sokołów

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Kosów Lacki

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Jan Słomiak

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 13th century

| established_title3 = Town rights

| established_date3 = 1723–1869, 2000

| area_total_km2 = 11.57

| population_as_of = 2006

| population_total = 2135

| population_density_km2 = auto

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| coordinates = {{coord|52|36|N|22|9|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 08-330

| area_code = +48 25

| blank_name = Car plates

| blank_info = WSK

| website = http://www.kosowlacki.pl

}}

Kosów Lacki {{IPAc-pl|'|k|o|s|u|f|-|'|l|a|c|k|J|i}} is a town in Sokołów County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland,{{TERYT}} with 2,152 inhabitants (2004).

Within the municipal territory are the two Treblinka camps.

History

1202 - First mention of a village Kossów found in documents belonging to prince Konrad Mazowiecki.
1723 - A permit was granted to organize a market twice a week and a fair four times in a year. Kosów was established as a town.
18th century - There were two schools in Kossów, in which 40 percent of the students were girls.
1869 - Civic rights were canceled, because Kosów participated in The January Uprising.
1964 - A painting by El Greco titled "{{Interlanguage link|Ecstasy of St. Francis of Assisi|es|3=San Francisco en éxtasis}}" was found in the presbytery in Kosów Lacki.
01.01.2000 - Restoration of civic rights.

[http://www.kosowlacki.pl/ Official town and commune webpage]
[http://www.muzeum.siedlce.pl/index_pl.php?lang=en&str=1 The diocesan museum in Siedlce (when is a El Greco picture ) webpage]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
[http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/kosow-lacki/ Jewish Community in Kosów Lacki] on Virtual Shtetl