Dobrzyca
Village
Aerial view of Dobrzyca
Aerial view of Dobrzyca
Dobrzyca is located in Poland
Dobrzyca
Dobrzyca
Coordinates: 53°13′9″N 16°47′14″E / 53.21917°N 16.78722°E / 53.21917; 16.78722
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyPiła
GminaSzydłowo
Population
280
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPP
National roads

Dobrzyca [dɔˈbʐɨt͡sa] (German: Borkendorf)[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szydłowo, within Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[2] It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) north-east of Szydłowo, 9 km (6 mi) north-east of Piła, and 92 km (57 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań. It is located in the ethnocultural region of Krajna.

History

The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century. Dobrzyca was a royal village of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship. in the Greater Poland Province.[3] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 to 1945 it was also part of Germany.

References

  1. Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße by M. Kaemmerer
  2. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  3. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1b.


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