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Marklowice
Marklowice is a village in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Marklowice. It lies approximately east of Wodzisław Śląski and south-west of the regional capital Katowice.
In 2005 the village had a population of 5,180. The football club Polonia Marklowice, founded in 1922, plays in the village.
The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as item in Merclini villa debent esse XXXIII) mansi.