Malec is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Kęty, within
Oświęcim County
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Oświęcim County ( pl, powiat oświęcimski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gove ...
,
Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopolskie ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of
3,404,863 (2019).
It was created on 1 ...
, in southern Poland.
It lies approximately north-east of
Kęty, south of
Oświęcim, and west of the regional capital
Kraków.
The village has a population of 1,239.
History
The village existed already in the early 13th century. Politically it belonged then to the
Duchy of Oświęcim
The Duchy of Oświęcim ( pl, Księstwo Oświęcimskie), or the Duchy of Auschwitz (german: Herzogtum Auschwitz), was one of many Duchies of Silesia, formed in the aftermath of the fragmentation of Poland.
It was established about 1315 on the Le ...
, formed in 1315 in the process of
feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of
Piast dynasty
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Branch ...
. In 1327 the duchy became a
fee of the
Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1457
Jan IV of Oświęcim agreed to sell the duchy to the
Polish Crown, and in the accompanying document issued on 21 February the village was mentioned as ''Malyecz''.
The territory of the Duchy of Oświęcim was eventually incorporated into Poland in 1564 and formed
Silesian County
The Silesian County (Polish: ''powiat śląski'') was a county of the Kraków Voivodeship, within the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Its seats of government were located in the towns of Zator and Oświęcim. It existed from ...
of
Kraków Voivodeship Kraków Voivodeship may also refer to:
*Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795)
* Kraków Voivodeship (1816–1837)
*Kraków Voivodeship (1919–1939)
*Kraków Voivodeship (1945–1975)
*Kraków Voivodeship (1975–1998)
The Kraków Voivodeshi ...
. Upon the
First Partition of Poland in 1772 it became part of the
Austrian
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** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law
* Austrian German dialect
* Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ...
Kingdom of
Galicia
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Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
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. After
World War I and fall of
Austria-Hungary it became part of
Poland. It was annexed by
Nazi Germany at the beginning of
World War II, and afterwards it was restored to Poland.
References
Malec
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