Pilica (Polish pronunciation: [piˈlit͡sa]) is a town in Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,936 inhabitants (2019).

Since the beginning of its existence, Pilica was part of the historic Lesser Poland region.

In accordance with the testament of Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth (1138), it became part of the Seniorate Province with Kraków as it capital.

Several years after the January Uprising, Pilica lost its town privileges under the Tsar's ukase from June 1, 1869,[2] and were restored in 1994.

[3] The historian Meier Balaban notes in his book The History of the Jews of Kraków and Kazimierz 1304–1868 (in Polish): “In the 16th Century the Jewish Kehilla of Krakow was subdivided into seven regional districts: Olkusz, Chrzanow, Wisnicz, Sacz, Bobowa, Pilica, Bedzin, Oshpitzin, and Wolbrom.”[3] Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu Rotenberg, the nephew of Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter of Gur, was rabbi of the town until his death in 1903.