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Sękowa ('' Polish'': ) is a historic village in southern Poland first incorporated by an edict issued on February 22, 1363, by King Kazimierz Wielki. The village is the site of St. Philip's and St. James' church, built in the beginning of the 16th century, one of the six Wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland, inscribed on the
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since 2003. Sękowa is the seat of rural
Gmina Sękowa __NOTOC__ Gmina Sękowa is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Gorlice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its seat is the village of Sękowa, which lies approximately south-east of Gorlice and s ...
, administrative district in
Gorlice County __NOTOC__ Gorlice County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government refo ...
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Lesser Poland Voivodeship Lesser Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,404,863 (2019). Its capital and largest city is Kraków. The province's name recalls the traditional name of a h ...
, on the Polish Slovak border. It lies approximately south-east of Gorlice and south-east of the regional capital
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Urząd Gminy Sękowa
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Strona o Gminie
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Stowarzyszenie Gminne w Sękowej
Villages in Gorlice County World Heritage Sites in Poland {{Gorlice-geo-stub