Klenica k is a village

Village

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 in the administrative district of Gmina Bojadła, within Zielona Góra County

Zielona Góra County

Zielona Góra County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Zielona Góra, although the city...

, Lubusz Voivodeship

Lubusz Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Lubusz Voivodeship is divided into 14 counties : 2 city counties and 12 land counties. These are further divided into 83 gminas....

, in western Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-west of Bojadła and 20 km (12 mi) east of Zielona Góra

Zielona Góra

Zielona Góra is a city in Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, with 117,557 inhabitants within the city limits and 294,000 inhabitants within the metropolitan area, including three neighbouring counties ....

.

Beginning of settlement in this place goes back to the eighth century when there was a settlement here, the castle and Podgrodzie peoples group called Tornow-Klenica. The first written mention of Klenicy is on file and Poznan bishopric dates from 1424. In the years 1975-1998 belonged to the administrative village population of Zielona Gora.

In 1787 Peter von Biron

Peter von Biron

Peter von Biron was the last Duke of Courland from 1769 to 1795.Peter was born in Jelgava as the son of Ernst Johann von Biron, future Duke of Courland, and his wife Benigna von Trotha. When 16 years old, he was forced to follow his family into the Siberian exile. In 1769, Peter was given the...

, last Duke of Courland

Duchy of Courland and Semigallia

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, acquired the former Jesuit

Society of Jesus

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 estate together with the neighbouring Otyń

Otyn

Otyń is a village in Nowosolski County, Poland. As of 2004 it has about 1200 inhabitants.The Gothic palace and church of Otyń were a property of the Society of Jesus from 1661 until its suppression in 1776, Duke Peter von Biron of Courland and Semigallia bought it in 1787 and called the place...

 and bequested it to his daughter Dorothea in 1800. Klenica later passed to the noble families of Radziwiłł and Czartoryski.

The village has a population of 1,400.