Gdów

Gmina Gdów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Gdów, which lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) south-east of Wieliczka and 26 km (16 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków. The gmina covers an area of 108 square kilometres (41.7 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 16,340.

Zręczyce [zrɛnˈt͡ʂɨt͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south-east of Wieliczka and 27 km (17 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

Stryszowa [strɨˈʂɔva] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) south-east of Wieliczka and 28 km (17 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

Fałkowice [fau̯kɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

Niegowić [ɲɛˈɡɔvit͡ɕ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) south-east of Wieliczka and 25 km (16 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.Niegowić was the place of the first appointment of Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, as its parish church's, Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, priest. He served there from July 1948 to August 1949, before the then-Cardinal and Krakow Archbishop Adam Sapieha (who had ordained Wojtyła a priest in 1946 on an accelerated schedule, sending him to work on a doctorate in theology in Rome before beginning parish work), assigned him to work at St. Florian's Church in Kraków (where he began his work with university students as a chaplain to students of the Jagiellonian University and the Catholic University of Lublin). While he was at the parish, the then-pastor Sapieha celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his presbyteral ordination. It was Father Wojtyła who suggested that as a present, the parish arrange to build a new church, which was eventually done, the first built at his suggestion.

Podolany [pɔdɔˈlanɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) south-east of Wieliczka and 29 km (18 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

Zalesiany [zalɛˈɕanɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

Mierzeń [ˈmjɛʐɛɲ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raciechowice, within Myślenice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) east of Raciechowice, 20 km (12 mi) east of Myślenice, and 29 km (18 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

Marszowice [marʂɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south-east of Wieliczka and 27 km (17 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

Kwapinka [kfaˈpinka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raciechowice, within Myślenice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Raciechowice, 19 km (12 mi) east of Myślenice, and 28 km (17 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

Jawczyce [jafˈt͡ʂɨt͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biskupice, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Trąbki (the gmina seat), 10 km (6 mi) south-east of Wieliczka, and 22 km (14 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków. Mounds at Jawczyce were described by Bishop Nankerus in 1322. Kurgan mounds dated to the Neolithic or Bronze Age included a burial of an elderly person, probably male. Some weapons and pottery fragments were also found in the tomb.

Bilczyce [bilˈt͡ʂɨt͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Wieliczka and 22 km (14 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.