Strzaà Âkowo is a village in Sà Âupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Strzaà Âkowo.
Strzaà Âkowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Pyzdry County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. It was owned by the Strzaà Âkowski, WÃÂsierski and Korytowski families. In the late 19th century, it had a population of 462.
During World War I, it was the location of a German prisoner-of-war camp for tens of thousands of Allied POWs of various nationalities.
During the World War II German occupation, in November 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles from Strzaà Âkowo. Expelled Poles were deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in German-occupied southern Poland, while their farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.
The officially protected traditional food originating from Strzaà Âkowo is local butter (Masà Âo ze Strzaà Âkowa), as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.
The local football team is Polanin Strzaà Âkowo. It competes in the lower leagues.