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Zaborowice
Village
Zaborowice is located in PolandZaborowiceZaborowice
Coordinates: 51°41′N 16°40′E / 51.683°N 16.667°E / 51.683; 16.667
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyRawicz
GminaBojanowo
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPRA

Zaborowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bojanowo, within Rawicz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Bojanowo, 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Rawicz, and 82 km (51 mi) south of the regional capital Poznań.

Although located in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, the village is part of the historic region of Lower Silesia.

The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the words za and bór, meaning "behind a coniferous forest".

References

  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Damrot, Konstanty (1896). Die älteren Ortsnamen Schlesiens, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Mit einem Anhange über die schlesisch-polnischen Personennamen. Beiträge zur schlesischen Geschichte und Volkskunde (in German). Verlag von Felix Kasprzyk. p. 138.
Gmina Bojanowo
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