Kaszuba Leśna

Kaszuba Leśna [kaˈʂuba ˈlɛɕna] is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Brusy, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north-west of Brusy, 28 km (17 mi) north of Chojnice, and 82 km (51 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

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Coordinates: 53°56′28″N 17°36′26″E / 53.94111°N 17.60722°E / 53.94111; 17.60722

Leśna

Leśna [ˈlɛɕna] (German: Marklissa) is a town in Lubań County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Leśna. As at 2006, the town has a population of 4,752.

Geography

The town is situated north of the Jizera Mountains on the left banks of the Kwisa River, the eastern edge of the historic Upper Lusatia region. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south of Lubań, and 125 kilometres (78 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław. In the south, a border crossing leads to Jindřichovice pod Smrkem in Bohemia.

Lake Leśnia, a reservoir of the Kwisa River, is located east of the town.

History

Leśna Castle, erected on the border with the Polish Duchy of Silesia about 1.5 kilometres (0.9 miles) southeast of the town, was first mentioned in a 1247 deed. King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, then ruler of the Upper Lusatian lands, ceded it to the Meissen bishop Conrad I of Wallhausen. The fortress probably lost its strategic importance with the construction of Czocha Castle further east in the early 14th century.

Lesna

Lesna may refer to the following places:

Leaena

Leaina (Greek: Λέαινα, "lioness") was a hetaera and the mistress of Aristogeiton the Tyrannicide.

When Anaxandridas II was king of Sparta in the 6th century BC, Harmodius and Aristogeiton were inspired to overthrow the tyranny of Hippias and Hipparchus at Athens.

Hipparchus was murdered, but Hippias escaped, and seized the surviving conspirators. Among those captured was the hetaera Leaina, lover of Aristogeiton, or Harmodius, or both. Leaina was tortured to get information about the conspiracy.

According to Pausanias, the Athenians later set up a statue of a bronze lioness on the Acropolis in her memory: "When Hipparchus died, Hippias tortured Leaena to death, because he knew she was the mistress of Aristogeiton, and therefore could not possibly, he held, be in ignorance of the plot. As a recompense, when the tyranny of the Peisistratidae was at an end, the Athenians put up a bronze lioness in memory of the woman, which they say Callias dedicated and Calamis made."

Leaina was commemorated on account of her stubborn resolve under the torture of the tyrant. Athenaeus (who believed Leaina's lover was Harmodius) says: "There was also a courtesan named Leaena, whose name is very celebrated, and she was the mistress of Harmodius, who slew the tyrant. And she, being tortured by command of Hippias the tyrant, died under the torture without having said a word."