Polakowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żórawina, within Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
Name The town was first recorded in a Latin document as Pologwitz in 1251. It has also been referred to as Polackowicz (1349), Bolkwicz (1360), Polockwitz (1408), Polokowicz (1456), Pologowitz (1630), Polockwitz/Polckowitz (1669), and Pologwitz (1736). In 1613, Nicholas Henel referred to the town with the Latin name Polocovvitz.
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