Dolní Marklovice

Dolní Marklovice (help·info) (Polish: Marklowice Dolne (info)) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Petrovice u Karviné in 1952. Petrůvka River flows through the village. Marklowice was a village in Cieszyn Silesia, first mentioned in a written document in 1305, which split in the 17th century into the two parts, Marklowice Dolne and Marklowice Górne. They were joined together again at the end of the 19th century. After division of that area between Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1920, it was divided between these two countries. They were briefly reunited 1938-39 after Poland's annexation of Zaolzie, although in two separate powiats...