Mokobody

Mokobody is a village in Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland, in the historical region of Podlachia. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Mokobody.

History

In 1496, it was granted Chełmno town rights with two annual fairs by Alexander Jagiellon. King Sigismund I the Old allowed to change the name to Nowe Miasto, meaning "new town", however, the old name remained in use. It was a private town of the Chreptowicz and Ossoliński noble families, administratively located in the Drohiczyn County in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province, [Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Lesser Poland Province] of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1774, King Stanisław August Poniatowski established eight annual fairs.
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, Mokobody was occupied by Germany until 1944.