See also: Dominikowice, Łódź Voivodeship.
| Dominikowice | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Lesser Poland |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gorlice |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Gorlice |
| Coordinates: | 49.65°N 33°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Population Total: | 2000 |
Dominikowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gorlice, within Gorlice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3km (02miles) east of Gorlice and 1020NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Kraków.[1]
The village has an approximate population of 2,000.
The village belongs to one of the oldest rural settlements in the area, having been endowed by the king on a Polish knight, Dominik Pieniążek (see: Jan Chryzostom Pieniążek, from Odrowąż family (see Odrowąż coat of arms) in 1291. The village has long comprised what is now the villages of Kobylanka, Klęczany and other negligible adjacent areas, until those two became separate nobility's (szlachtas) estates.
Unlike most of the neighbouring villages, which before the Operation Vistula (1940s) were largely inhabited by Rusyns' populations (recently called "Lemkos" to avoid inappropriate associating them with any Russian proveniences), throughout the history, Dominikowice and Kobylanka constituted almost homogenously Polish settlement.