Bielany is a village in the administrative district of Gmina KÃÂty, within OÃ ÂwiÃÂcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
The village was first mentioned on 21 January 1457 as Byelany in the document of Jan IV of OÃ ÂwiÃÂcim, in which the duke agreed to sell the Duchy of OÃ ÂwiÃÂcim to the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
The territory of the Duchy of Oà ÂwiÃÂcim was eventually incorporated into Poland in 1564 and formed Silesian County of Kraków Voivodeship. Upon the First Partition of Poland in 1772 it became part of the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia. After World War I and fall of Austria-Hungary it became part of Poland. It was annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II, and afterwards it was restored to Poland.