Tomice (Powiat Wadowicki)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Wadowicki | ||
| Gmina : | Tomice | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 54 ' N , 19 ° 29' E | ||
| Residents : | 2641 (2015) | ||
| Postal code : | 34-100 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 33 | ||
| License plate : | KWA | ||
Tomice is a village and seat of the rural community of the same name in the powiat Wadowicki of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with a little over 8000 inhabitants.
geography
The place is located in the Silesian Foothills ( Pogórze Śląskie ).
Neighboring towns are the city of Wadowice in the south, Chocznia in the southwest, Frydrychowice in the west, Radocza in the north, Witanowice in the east.
history
It was first mentioned in a document in 1438 as Thomic . The name is probably derived from the first name T (h) oma .
Politically, the village originally belonged to the Duchy of Auschwitz , the feudal rule of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Since 1445 it belonged to the Duchy of Zator , which was sold to Poland in 1494.
During the first partition of Poland in 1772, Tomice became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).
In 1918, after the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Tomice came to Poland. This was only interrupted by the occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht in World War II . It then belonged to the district of Bielitz in the administrative district of Katowice in the province of Silesia (since 1941 province of Upper Silesia ).
From 1975 to 1998 Tomice was part of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship .
local community
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Tomice includes six villages with a school administration office .
traffic
The state road DK 28 , which connects Zator through Nowy Sącz with Przemyśl , runs through Tomice .
Individual evidence
- ^ Sołectwo Tomice. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)