Świerklany Górne () is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Świerklany
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Gmina Świerklany is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Jankowice Rybnickie, which lies approximately south of Rybnik and south-west of the r ...
, within
Rybnik County,
Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Location
It lies approximately south-east of
Jankowice Rybnickie
Jankowice Rybnickie is a village in Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Świerklany. It lies approximately south of Rybnik and south-west of the regional cap ...
, south of
Rybnik, and south-west of the regional capital
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
.
History
The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of
Diocese of Wrocław called ''
Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( pl, Księga uposażeń biskupstwa wrocławskiego, ''Book of endowments of the Bishopric of Wrocław'') is a Latin manuscript catalog of documents compiled in the later 13th or in the early 14th centu ...
'' from around 1305 as ''item in Swrklant debent esse XXIII) mansi''.
References
Villages in Rybnik County
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