Jaktorów


Jaktorów is a village in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Jaktorów. It lies approximately west of Grodzisk Mazowiecki and southwest of Warsaw.
The village has a population of 910.
The last recorded aurochs, a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland. Also called the urus, it was the ancestor of domestic cattle, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The skull was later stolen by the Swedish Army during the Swedish invasion of Poland and is now in Livrustkammaren in Stockholm.