Lipnica Mała (Hungarian: Felsőlipnica) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jabłonka, within Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia.
Geography The village lies 6 kilometers north-west of Jabłonka in the drainage basin of the Black Sea (through Orava, Váh and Danube rivers), in the historical region of Orava (Polish: Orawa).
History In his geographical dictionary published in 1851, Elek Fényes, writes the following about the village: “Felső-Lipnicza, a Tót village in Árva County: 1,514 Catholic inhabitants, who weave a great deal of coarse homespun cloth. Extensive sheep farming. Its sessio is 83. It belongs to the Árva estate.”
In 1880, the village had a predominantly Polish population of 1,614. It became part of Poland following World War I.
Until the Treaty of Trianon, it belonged to the Trsztena district of Árva County of Hungary.
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