Sà Âawno (Kashubian: Sà Âôwno, ) is a town on the Wieprza river in Middle Pomerania region, north-western Poland, with 12,511 inhabitants (2019). It is the administrative seat of Gmina Sà Âawno, though not part of it. The town is also the capital of Sà Âawno County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
The S6 expressway bypasses SÃ Âawno to the south. Three exits on the S6 expressway serve the town (exits 32, 31 and 30). Upon the opening of the S6 expressway in December 2025, national road 6 (which formerly ran through SÃ Âawno) was re-numbered to minor road 112.
Sà Âawno is a railway junction on the major Gdaà ÂskâÂÂSzczecin line, with access to secondary importance connections to Darà Âowo and Korzybie.
The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under Mieszko I around 967. Since the mid-12th century the Land of Sà Âupsk-Sà Âawno was under the rule of Duke Ratibor I of Pomerania and his descendants, a cadet branch of the Griffin dynasty. From 1190 to 1238 it was the capital of a small eponymous duchy. When the line became extinct about 1227, their estates were the matter of an inheritance conflict between the Griffin Duke Barnim I the Good and Swietopelk II from the Samborid dynasty, who ruled over the adjacent territories of Pomerelia (Gdaà Âsk Pomerania) in the east. Both duchies had previously separated from Poland as a result of the 12th-century fragmentation of Poland (Pomerania in the 12th century, and Pomerelia in the 13th century).
Swietopelk II prevailed, his son Mestwin II, duke in Pomerelia from 1266, however again had to deal with claims raised by the Pomeranian Griffins and also by his brother Wratislaw II. To secure his rule, Mestwin accepted the suzerainty of the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg by the 1269 Treaty of Arnswalde, but later on, in 1282, Mestwin and Polish Duke Przemysà  II signed the Treaty of KÃÂpno, which transferred the suzerainty over Gdaà Âsk Pomerania including Sà Âawno to Przemysà  II. Upon Mestwin's death in 1294, the Samborides became extinct and Sà Âawno was reintegrated with Poland. In 1308 Brandenburg invaded the region and Waldemar of Ascania finally separated Sà Âawno from Pomerelia, which he sold to the Teutonic Order by the 1309 Treaty of Soldin. He nevertheless lost the town to the Griffin duke Wartislaw IV of Pomerania in 1317, whereafter Sà Âawno remained a part of the Griffin-ruled Pomeranian duchies until 1637.
Duke Wartislaw IV enfeoffed Peter von Neuenburg of the Swienca noble family with SÃ Âawno, who granted the settlement town rights in 1317. The Gothic St Mary's Church was consecrated about 1360. Between 1368 and 1478 SÃ Âawno was under the rule of dukes of SÃ Âupsk, vassals of the Kingdom of Poland. Later on it was part of the Duchy of Pomerania, until its partition in the 17th century between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia. Devastated throughout the Thirty Years' War, the town was allotted to the Brandenburg Province of Pomerania by the 1653 Treaty of Stettin.
During World War II, the Polish resistance was active, and Polish underground press was distributed in the town. SÃ Âawno suffered heavy destruction during the war. With the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, its German population was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement and it was handed over back to Poland.
From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the SÃ Âupsk Voivodeship.
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