Strzemieszyce Małe – a district (

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) of

Dąbrowa Górnicza Dąbrowa Górnicza () is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland, near Katowice and Sosnowiec. It is located in eastern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, on the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers (tributaries of the Vistula Rive ...

(since 1975) in the

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, Poland. Located between Strzemieszyce Wielkie and Łosień, 10.8 km eastwards from the town center, separated from Strzemieszyce Wielkie by the

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. Before 1973 an independent

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commune (

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History

The first written record of the village name (in Latin ''Strmyeschycze minor'') comes from the early 14th century. The village belonged along with Strzemieszyce Wielkie to the

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and was administered as part of the

Sławków Sławków is a town in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland, located in the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (part of historic province of Lesser Poland), near Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM – a metropolis with a population of around 2 ...

estates until 1790. An elementary school was established in 1820. In 1890 the village numbered 148 households. Two

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mines ("Anna" and "Kawia Góra") operated here in the 19th century.

Bibliography

# Jan Przemsza-Zieliński: ''Historia Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego'', Sosnowiec 1992. # Arkadiusz Rybak: ''Z dziejów oświaty na terenie Strzemieszyc Małych 1820 – 2000'', Dąbrowa Górnicza 2002, . # tegoż: ''Z dziejów parafii i życia religijnego Strzemieszyc Małych'', w: Jan Kmiotek, Dariusz Kmiotek, Arkadiusz Rybak (red.), ''Echo dawnych Strzemieszyc'', cz. VI, Dąbrowa Górnicza 2001, , s. 44. Dąbrowa Górnicza {{Silesian-geo-stub

History

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