Bestwina
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Habsburg palace (1826)
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 Bestwina
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| Coordinates: 49°53′47″N 19°3′34″E / 49.89639°N 19.05944°E | |
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | Bielsko County |
| Gmina | Bestwina |
| First mentioned | 1273 |
| Population | 4,618 (2,012) |
Bestwina [bɛstˈfʲina] is a village in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bestwina. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Bielsko-Biała and 40 km (25 mi) south of the regional capital Katowice.
The village has in 2012 a population of 4,618.
The village was first mentioned in 1273. It became a seat of a Catholic parish as it was mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment among Catholic parishes of Oświęcim deaconry of the Diocese of Kraków as Bestwina.
Politically it belonged initially to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and the Castellany of Oświęcim, which was in 1315 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland into the Duchy of Oświęcim, ruled by a local branch of Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1457 Jan IV of Oświęcim agreed to sell the duchy to the Polish Crown, and in the accompanying document issued on 21 February the village was mentioned as Bestwina.
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