Dobrzyca | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Piła |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Szydłowo |
Coordinates: | 53.2192°N 16.7872°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 280 |
Registration Plate: | PP |
Blank Name Sec2: | National roads |
Dobrzyca (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 14km (09miles) north-east of Szydłowo, 90NaN0 north-east of Piła, and 920NaN0 north of the regional capital Poznań. It is located in the ethnocultural region of Krajna.
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.