| Marklowice | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Poland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Silesian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Wodzisław |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Marklowice |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1305 |
| Coordinates: | 50.0183°N 18.5247°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Population Total: | 5180 |
| Website: | http://www.marklowice.pl/ |
Marklowice is a village in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Marklowice.[1] It lies approximately 6km (04miles) east of Wodzisław Śląski and 430NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Katowice. Between 1975 and 1994 Marklowice was part of the town Wodzisław Śląski.
In 2005 the village had a population of 5,180. The football club Polonia Marklowice, founded in 1922, plays in the village.
The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as item in Merclini villa debent esse XXXIII) mansi.[2]