Biecz
Biecz is a village at the eastern edge of Małopolskie Province, 125 km east of Kraków. Like Kraków, its heyday was in medieval times, but it declined as the powerbase moved to Warsaw then Poland fell under foreign occupation.
Places of Interest
Highlights include World War I Cemetery nr 109 in Biecz and World War I Cemetery nr 106 in Biecz.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Korczyna and Strzeszyn.
Korczyna
Village
Korczyna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biecz, within Gorlice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Strzeszyn
Village
Strzeszyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biecz, within Gorlice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Binarowa
Village
Binarowa is a village in southern Poland which was established by Casimir III the Great in 1348. The village is the site of St. Michael's Archangel Catholic Church, built in the 15th century.
Biecz
- Type: Town with 4,450 residents
- Description: city of Poland
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Gorlice County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.7305° or 49° 43′ 50″ north
Longitude
21.2494° or 21° 14′ 58″ east
Population
4,450
Elevation
254 metres (833 feet)
Open location code
8GX3P6JX+6Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Biecz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيتش”
- Armenian: “Բեչ”
- Asturian: “Biecz”
- Belarusian: “Беч”
- Belarusian: “Бэч”
- Bulgarian: “Беч”
- Catalan: “Biecz”
- Cebuano: “Biecz”
- Chechen: “Беч”
- Chinese: “別奇”
- Chinese: “别奇”
- Czech: “Biecz”
- Dutch: “Beitsch”
- Dutch: “Biecz”
- Esperanto: “Biecz”
- Estonian: “Biecz”
- Finnish: “Biecz”
- French: “Biecz”
- German: “Beitsch”
- German: “Biecz”
- Greek: “Μπιετς”
- Hebrew: “בייץ‘”
- Hebrew: “בייץ’”
- Hebrew: “בייץ”
- Hungarian: “Biecz”
- Irish: “Biecz”
- Italian: “Biecz”
- Javanese: “Biecz”
- Latin: “Biecz”
- Latvian: “Beča”
- Latvian: “Biecz”
- Lithuanian: “Biecas”
- Malay: “Biecz”
- Moksha: “Беч”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beitsch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Biecz”
- Norwegian: “Biecz”
- Pennsylvania German: “Biecz”
- Persian: “بیسز”
- Polish: “Biecz”
- Portuguese: “Biec”
- Portuguese: “Biecz”
- Romanian: “Biecz”
- Russian: “Беч”
- Serbian: “Biecz”
- Serbian: “Bječ”
- Serbian: “Биеч”
- Serbian: “Бијеч”
- Serbian: “Бјеч”
- Silesian: “Biecz”
- Silesian: “Bječ”
- Silesian: “Bjecz”
- Slovak: “Biecz”
- Slovenian: “Biecz”
- Spanish: “Biecz”
- Swedish: “Biecz”
- Tatar: “Беч”
- Turkish: “Biecz”
- Ukrainian: “Беч”
- Ukrainian: “Бєч”
- Vietnamese: “Biecz”
- Volapük: “Biecz”
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