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Gmina Przeciszów

rural gmina of Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2459873 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gmina Przeciszów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Przeciszów, which lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of Oświęcim and 40 km (25 mi) west of the regional capital Kraków.

The gmina covers an area of 35.4 square kilometres (13.7 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 6,679.

Villages

The gmina contains the villages of Piotrowice, Podlesie and Przeciszów.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Przeciszów is bordered by the gminas of Babice, Oświęcim, Polanka Wielka, Wieprz and Zator.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gmina Przeciszów” as rural gmina of Poland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gmina, Przeciszów and rural can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rural gmina of Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2459873. Authority coordinates are 50.017, 19.383. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gmina Przeciszów” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.