Knaj is a

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Drogomyśl Drogomyśl is a village in Gmina Strumień, Cieszyn County, in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland. The name of the village is of possessive origin, derived from personal name ''Drogomysł'' ( pl). History The village lies in the histo ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Strumień Gmina Strumień is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Its seat is the town of Strumień. The gmina covers an area of , and as o ...

, within

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, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south of

Strumień Strumień , , ) is a town and the seat of Gmina Strumień, in Cieszyn County, in the Silesian Voivodeship (Administrative divisions of Poland, province) of southern Poland, on the Vistula River. It is located in the north-eastern part of the histo ...

, north-east of

Cieszyn Cieszyn ( , ; ; ) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town has 33,500 inhabitants ( and lies opposite Český Těšín in the Czech Repu ...

, and south-west of the regional capital

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. The settlement originated as a

folwark ''Folwark'' is a Polish word derived from the German ''Vorwerk''. A Folwark or Vorwerk is an agricultural estate or a separate branch operation of such an estate, historically a serfdom-based farm and agricultural enterprise (a type of latif ...

(German: vorwerk), mentioned in 1722 as ''zum vorwerg Knay''. It lies on the Knajka stream and on the southern outskirts of ''Kniejski Las'' (lit. ''Knaj's Forest''). All this names are derived from a word ''knieja'' denoting a ''wild, dense forest''. In 1735 Knaj was adjoined to a Catholic parish in Pruchna. Later it became a part of the modern municipality of Drogomyśl.

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{{Cieszyn-geo-stub Villages in Cieszyn County Cieszyn Silesia