Ponice is a
village
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on the
Poniczanka River, in
Nowy Targ County
Nowy Targ County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refor ...
, by the northwestern slopes of the Gorcy mountains in Poland. It lies approximately south-east of
Rabka-Zdrój
Rabka-Zdrój (, Goral: ''Robka'', colloquially: ''Rabka'') is a spa town in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is located between Kraków and Zakopane in a valley on the northern slopes of the Gorce Mountains, where the rivers Poniczanka and ...
, north of
Nowy Targ
Nowy Targ (Officially: ''Royal Free city of Nowy Targ'', Yiddish: ''Naymark'', Gorals, Goral dialect: ''Nowy Torg'' ) is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is located in the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin at the foot of the Go ...
, and south of the regional capital
Kraków
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.
To the west it borders on Rdzawka and
Rabka Rabka may refer to the following places:
* Rabka, Tibet, a village in China
* Rabka-Zdrój, a town in Poland
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, to the east on Slonne, and to the south on Obidowa. The southeastern part is covered with woods, and along the northeastern border stretches the mountain range
Turbacz (940 meters). It is in these woods, from the slope of Obidowa (1,027 metres), that the stream Poniczanka originates. The village's buildings lie in the valley of this stream; the higher part of the village is called Krupowe Działo.
In 1870 there were 125 houses and 894 inhabitants; in 1880 there were 136 houses and 843 inhabitants, of whom 842 were
Roman Catholics
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and one was
Jewish
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. As of 1870, the area of the major estate
. e., property registered under the ownership of noblesnumbered 3 morgs of farmland, 8 of pastures, and 888 of forests; the minor estate
roperty owned by peasantshad 1,185
Austria
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n morgs of farmland, 49 of meadows and gardens, 161 of pastures, and 144 of forests.
t is served bythe Roman Catholic parish church in
Rabka Rabka may refer to the following places:
* Rabka, Tibet, a village in China
* Rabka-Zdrój, a town in Poland
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, and there is a private chapel in the village; the county court and tax office is in Nowy Targ, and the post and telegraph office is in Rabka (. away). The owner of the registered estate is Julian Zubrzycki. [Br G, Vol. 8, page 767.
References
* ''Slownik geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego'' (15-volume gazetteer, late 19th century).
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Villages in Nowy Targ County