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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Jankowice Wielkie<br />
| settlement_type = Village<br />
| image_skyline = SM Jankowice Wielkie kościół Wniebowzięcia NMP (5) ID 610108.jpg<br />
| image_caption = Church of the Assumption<br />
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]<br />
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Opole Voivodeship|Opole]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[Brzeg County|Brzeg]]<br />
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]<br />
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Olszanka, Opole Voivodeship|Olszanka]]<br />
| pushpin_map = Poland<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|50|46|N|17|26|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}<br />
| elevation_m = <br />
| population_total = 750<br />
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]<br />
| utc_offset = +1<br />
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]<br />
| utc_offset_DST = +2<br />
| registration_plate = OB<br />
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]<br />
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW458-PL.svg|32px]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Jankowice Wielkie''' {{IPAc-pl|j|a|n|k|o|'|w|i|c|e|-|'|w|j|e|l|k|J|e}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Olszanka, Opole Voivodeship|Gmina Olszanka]], within [[Brzeg County]], [[Opole Voivodeship]], in south-western Poland.{{TERYT}}<br />
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The settlement os located in the historic [[Lower Silesia]] region, approximately {{convert|4|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of [[Olszanka, Opole Voivodeship|Olszanka]], {{convert|12|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of [[Brzeg]], and {{convert|37|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of the regional capital [[Opole]].<br />
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The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the given name Janek or Janko, a diminutive of Jan ([[John (given name)|John]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Damrot|first=Konstanty|year=1896|title=Die älteren Ortsnamen Schlesiens, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Mit einem Anhange über die schlesisch-polnischen Personennamen. Beiträge zur schlesischen Geschichte und Volkskunde|language=de|publisher=Verlag von Felix Kasprzyk|page=64}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Adamy|first=Heinrich|year=1888|title=Die schlesischen Ortsnamen, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Ein Bild aus der Vorzeit|language=de|publisher=Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung|page=14}}</ref><br />
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In the final stages of [[World War II]], in January 1945, a German-organized [[The March (1945)|death march]] of [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] prisoners of war from the [[Stalag Luft 7]] [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|POW camp]] passed through the village.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stanek|first=Piotr|year=2015|title=Stalag Luft 7 Bankau i jego ewakuacja na Zachód w styczniu 1945 r.|journal=Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny|location=Opole|language=pl|volume=38|page=65|issn=0137-5199}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Villages in Brzeg County]]<br />
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