Puńców
Sign in to savePuńców is a village in Gmina Goleszów, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on the border with the Czech Republic. The village lies in the Silesian Foothills and in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
Key facts
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- Puńców
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- Village
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- Saint George church
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- Poland
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- right
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- Country
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- Voivodeship
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- County
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- Cieszyn
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- Gmina
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- Goleszów
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- Mayor
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- Andrzej Ernst
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- First mentioned
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- 1223
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Puńców is a village in Gmina Goleszów, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on the border with the Czech Republic. The village lies in the Silesian Foothills and in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
The name is probably of possessive origin derived from personal name Puńc (such a name was probably derived from Middle High German word , , later a nickname?).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puńców” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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