Krosno

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Krosno
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(Flag)	(Coat of arms)

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Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
Area	45 km²
Population - city - urban - density	50,000 /km²
Municipal Website

Not to be confused with Krosno Odrzańskie.

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Krosno (in full The Royal Free City of Krosno, Polish: Królewskie Wolne Miasto Krosno) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 48,060 inhabitants as of 2004.

Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously capital of Krosno Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Krosno County.

Krosno is located in an oil bearing region. Surface seepage of oil was locally used (unrefined) in lamps as early as the sixteenth century. In the 19th century Ignacy Łukasiewicz a local pharmacist began exploiting the deposits from hand-dug wells, years before the drilling at Titusville, Pennsylvania which is usually said to be the beginning of modern petroleum development.