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Kamionka,_Mikołów Latitude and Longitude:

50°11′20.24″N 18°55′16.4″E / 50.1889556°N 18.921222°E / 50.1889556; 18.921222
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Kamionka
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Fire station
Coordinates: 50°11′20.24″N 18°55′16.4″E / 50.1889556°N 18.921222°E / 50.1889556; 18.921222
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Silesian
County/City Mikołów
Time zone UTC+1 ( CET)
 • Summer ( DST) UTC+2 ( CEST)
Area code(+48) 032

Kamionka is a dzielnica ( district) in the north-east of Mikołów, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. [1] It was an independent village but was administratively merged into Mikołów in 1935. [2]

It is located alongside national road 81.

History

The village was established in the 18th century. [3] It was first mentioned in 1760 but the buildings existed about 30 year earlier. It initially belonged to Śmiłowice, in 1812 it became an independent municipality. [2]

After World War I in the Upper Silesia plebiscite 184 out of 195 voters in Kamionka voted in favour of joining Poland, against 11 opting for staying in Germany. [4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Jednostki pomocnicze" (in Polish). Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  2. ^ a b "Zarys historii sołectw mikołowskich i dzielnicy Kamionka" (in Polish). Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  3. ^ Adrian A. Jojko, 2006, p. 9
  4. ^ "Results of the Upper Silesia plebiscite in Pless/Pszczyna County" (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2015-05-03.

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