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Wojkowice
Place in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Wojkowice

Wojkowice is a town in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland, located in the Dąbrowa Basin, near Katowice.

Wojkowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river, and historically belongs to Lesser Poland. Its name comes from ancient Polish given name Wojek, which might have been a diminutive of Wojslaw. Several other locations in Poland have been named in a similar fashion – Wojslawice, Wojkowo, Wojkow, Wojkowa.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Adrian Tync (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.