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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Bełk<br />
| settlement_type = Village<br />
| total_type = &nbsp;<br />
| image_skyline = Kościół św. Marii Magdaleny w Bełku2.JPG<br />
| image_caption = Saint Mary Magdalene Church<br />
| image_flag = <br />
| image_shield = Belk CoA.svg<br />
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]<br />
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Silesian Voivodeship|Silesian]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[Rybnik County|Rybnik]]<br />
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]<br />
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Czerwionka-Leszczyny|Czerwionka-Leszczyny]]<br />
| established_date = 1289<br />
| established_title = First mentioned<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|50|7|51|N|18|42|36|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}<br />
| pushpin_map = Poland<br />
| pushpin_label_position = right<br />
| elevation_m = <br />
| population_total = 3358<br />
| website = <br />
}}<br />
'''Bełk''' {{IPAc-pl|b|e|U|k}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Czerwionka-Leszczyny]], within [[Rybnik County]], [[Silesian Voivodeship]], in southern Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|7|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of [[Czerwionka-Leszczyny]], {{convert|13|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north-east of [[Rybnik]], and {{convert|25|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of the regional capital [[Katowice]].<br />
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The village has an area of {{convert|15.43|km2|abbr=on}}<ref name="bip">{{cite web|url=http://bip.czerwionka-leszczyny.pl/solectwo_belk/index.html|title=Sołectwo Bełk|author=BIP Gminy i Miasta Czerwionka-Leszczyny|access-date=2015-05-10|language=pl}}</ref> and a population of 3,358.<br />
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== History ==<br />
The village was first mentioned 1289, when it belonged to a knight ''Andrzej'' (''Andrew'') nicknamed ''Belick''.<ref name="maron"/> It was later also mentioned in a Latin document of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław|Diocese of Wrocław]] called ''[[Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis]]'' from around 1305 as ''Item apud '''Belconem''' ernut 30 mansi soluentes fertones expela libertate, de quibus prepositura Opoliensis de agris dudum cultis habet tres reliqui uero ad mensam domini episcopi pertinebunt''.<ref>{{cite book |first=Wilhelm |last=Schulte |author-link=Wilhelm Schulte |title=Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae T.14 Liber Fundationis Episcopatus Vratislaviensis|place=Breslau |year=1889 |url= http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=19747&from=publication | language = de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.dokumentyslaska.pl/cds%2014/liber.html|title=Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis |access-date=13 July 2014|language=la}}</ref><br />
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The village became a seat of a Catholic parish in [[Żory]] [[deanery]] in [[Archdiocese of Wrocław|Diocese of Wrocław]], first mentioned in 1447 as ''Belk'', in a complete register of [[Peter's Pence]] payment, composed by Nicholaum Wolff, an [[archdeacon]] of [[Opole]].<ref name="maron">{{cite journal| last = Maroń| first = Franciszek| title = Rozwój sieci parafialnej w diecezji katowickiej aż do końca XV wieku| trans-title = The development of a net of parish in Diocese of Katowice until the end of the 15th century| url = http://www.wtl.us.edu.pl/e107_plugins/wtl_ssht/index.php?numer=2&str=101-167| journal = Śląskie Studia Historyczno-Teologiczne| pages = 118–119| year = 1969| language = pl| access-date = 2015-05-13| archive-date = 2019-02-28| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190228141044/http://www.wtl.us.edu.pl/e107_plugins/wtl_ssht/index.php?numer=2&str=101-167| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title= Registrum denarii sancti Petri in archidiaconatu Opoliensi sub anno domini MCCCCXLVII per dominum Nicolaum Wolff decretorum doctorem, archidiaconum Opoliensem, ex commissione reverendi in Christo patris ac domini Conradi episcopi Wratislaviensis, sedis apostolice collectoris, collecti|journal= Zeitschrift des Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens|publisher= H. Markgraf|publication-place=Breslau|volume= 27|year = 1893|url = http://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=15085&from=publication| access-date=21 July 2014|language=de}}</ref><br />
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