Marklowice is a village in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Marklowice __NOTOC__ Gmina Marklowice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Marklowice, which lies approximately east of Wodzisław Śląski and south-west of ...

. It lies approximately east of Wodzisław Śląski and south-west of the regional capital Katowice. Between 1975 and 1994 Marklowice was part of the town Wodzisław Śląski. In 2005 the village had a population of 5,180. The football club Polonia Marklowice, founded in 1922, plays in the village. The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław, Diocese of Wrocław called ''Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis'' from around 1305 as ''item in Merclini villa debent esse XXXIII) mansi''.

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