Komornica is a Polish

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 ...

which gave its name to the Komornica culture, due to the nearby

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of this

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from the Mesolithic period of Northern Europe. Komornica is in the '' gmina'' (a Polish administrative division similar to a

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) of

Gmina Wieliszew __NOTOC__ Gmina Wieliszew is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Legionowo County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Wieliszew, which lies approximately north-east of Legionowo and north of Warsaw. ...

, within

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, towards the east of central

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. The postal code of Komornica is .Liste des codes postaux de la Pologne
It lies approximately northwest of

Wieliszew Wieliszew is a village in Legionowo County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland, in the bifurcation of the Vistula and Narew Rivers. It is the seat of the gmina (''commune'' or ''municipality'' as administrative district) called Gmina ...

(the seat of the '' gmina'' of the same name), north of

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(the seat of the county), and north of

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(the capital of Poland). , the village of Komornica has a population of 168. From 1975 to 1998, the village was part of the Warsaw Voivodeship.

Komornica culture

The oldest traces of settlements (e.g.

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) in the territory of the Wieliszew commune were discovered at numerous

near the village of Komornica, dating as far back as 8000 BC. Named the Komornica culture, the traces of this Mesolithic archaeological culture have been found in parts of Poland,

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, and southern Sweden.

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