Siołkowice is the name of two villages in
Poland
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, in the
Opole Voivodeship
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, close to the village of
Popielów. One is named
Stare ("Old") Siołkowice, the other being
Nowe ("New") Siołkowice. The village is known as the birthplace of
Jakub Kania, a folk poet, and
Edmund Saporski-Woś
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*Ed ...
, the pioneer of Polish settlement in
Brazil
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. For several years
Jan Dzierżon
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served in the parish in the village (Stare Siołkowice).
Siolkowice
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