Oleśnica is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Olesno, within
Dąbrowa County
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Dąbrowa County ( pl, powiat dąbrowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government refo ...
,
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 south of
Olesno
Olesno is a town in Opole Voivodship, Poland about north-east of the city of Opole. It is the capital of Olesno County and seat of the Gmina Olesno.
History
The area near the ancient Amber Road had been settled since the Neolithic era. Olesno ...
, west of
Dąbrowa Tarnowska, and east of the regional capital
Kraków.
In Kozubów (then within the borders of
Austria-Hungary), today's part of Oleśnica, the outstanding Polish beekeeper Professor
Leonard Weber
Leonard Weber (22 October 1889 — 16 September 1975) was an outstanding Polish beekeeper with diverse interests: he studied architecture in Italy, was fond of astronomy, was a polyglot, passionate about artificial languages (Esperanto
Es ...
(1889–1975) was born.
References
Villages in Dąbrowa County
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