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Borowice (other)
Borowice may refer to the following places in Poland: *Borowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland) *Borowice, Masovian Voivodeship Borowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bodzanów, within Płock County __NOTOC__ Płock County ( pl, powiat płocki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-cen ... (east-central Poland) * Borowice, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Borowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Podgórzyn, within Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south of Jelenia Góra, and west of the regional capital Wrocław. History The area became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Initially it was administratively part of the Wleń castellany. The village was founded in 1644 by Swiss carpenter Martin Markensteiner, who fled from Bohemia during the Thirty Years' War. During World War II, in 1940–1942, the Germans used Belgian, French and Soviet prisoners of war and possibly also Czech and Polish civilians for forced labour to build a road connecting the village with Przełęcz Karkonoska Przełęcz Karkonoska (literally "Karkonosze Pass"; cs, Slezské sedlo, literally "Silesian Pass") is a mountain pass in the central Giant Mountains on the Polish-Czech border. At , it is the lowest point of the main ridge of the Giant Mountains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borowice, Masovian Voivodeship
Borowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bodzanów, within Płock County __NOTOC__ Płock County ( pl, powiat płocki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ..., Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. References Borowice {{Płock-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |