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Kielce

Kielce is a city in central Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
with 202,609 inhabitants (2006). It is also the capital city of the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship

Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship

Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Polands into which Poland is presently divided. It is situated in south-central Poland, in the historical province of Lesser Poland, and takes its name from the Swietokrzyskie Mountains mountain range....
(Holy Cross Voivodeship) since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship

Kielce Voivodeship

Kielce Voivodeship is a former unit of administrative division and local government in Poland....
(1919–1939, 1945–1998). The city is located in the middle of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains

Swietokrzyskie Mountains

Swietokrzyskie Mountains , are a mountain range in central Poland, in the vicinity of the city of Kielce. In most part the chain consists of a number of separate ranges, the highest of which is Lysog?ry ....
(Holy Cross Mountains), at the banks of Silnica river, in northern part of the historical Polish province of Lesser Poland

Lesser Poland

Lesser Poland is one of the historical regions of Poland. It forms the southeastern corner of the country. It should not be confused with the modern Lesser Poland Voivodeship, which covers just a part of the historical region of Lesser Poland...
. Once an important centre of limestone

Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
mining, Kielce is now a centre of trade and commerce.

area of Kielce has been inhabited at least since 5th century BC.

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Kielce is a city in central Poland

Poland

Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship

Kielce Voivodeship

Kielce Voivodeship is a former unit of administrative division and local government in Poland....
(1919–1939, 1945–1998). The city is located in the middle of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains

Swietokrzyskie Mountains

Lesser Poland

Limestone

History

The area of Kielce has been inhabited at least since 5th century BC. Until 6th or 7th century the banks of the Silnica were inhabited by Kelts who most probably were the name-sake for the location. They were driven out by a Slavic tribe of Vistulans

Vistulans

Vistulans were a Lechitic languages tribe inhabiting, since at least the seventh century, lands known today as Lesser Poland.In the 9th century, Vistulans created a tribal state, with major centers in Krak?w, Wislica, Sandomierz, and Strad?w....
who started hunting in the nearby huge forests and had settled most of the area now known as Malopolska

Lesser Poland

Bohemia

History...
, however they soon came under the power of the Piast dynasty and became a part of Poland. According to a local legend, Mieszko, son of Boleslaus II of Poland was attacked by a band of brigands in a forest. He was saved by a vision of Saint Adalbert

Saint Adalbert

Saint Adalbert may refer to:*Adalbert of Prague , bishop of Prague, was martyred in his efforts, to convert the Baltic Prussians*Adalbert of Magdeburg , sometimes known as the Apostle of the Slavs, first Archbishop of Magdeburg...
. In the place of his vision he erected a wooden church.

In reality the area of the Holy Cross Mountains was almost unpopulated until 11th century when the first hunters established permanent settlements at the outskirts of the mountains. They needed a place to trade furs and meat for grain and other necessary products and so the market of Kielce was formed. In early 12th century the new settlement became a property of the Bishops of Kraków

Kraków

Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
who built a wooden church and a manor. In 1171 a stone church was erected by bishop Gedeon Gryf. At the times of Wincenty Kadlubek

Wincenty Kadlubek

Blessed Wincenty Kadlubek , also known as Vincent Kadlubek, Vincent Kadlubo, Vincent Kadlubko, Vincent of Krak?w, Master Vincentius, was a thirteenth century Bishop of Cracow and historian of Poland....
a parochial school in Kielce was started in 1229. By 1295 the town was awarded with the city rights. In mid-13th century the town was destroyed by Mongol invasion of Ögedei Khan

Ögedei Khan

?gedei Khan, , was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire by succeeding his father. He continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun, and was the Great Khan when the Mongol Empire reached its furthest extent west during the mongol invasion of europe....
, but it quickly recovered.

The area around Kielce was rich in minerals such as copper

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29.It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity....
ore, lead

Lead

Lead is a main-group Chemical element with symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal, also considered to be one of the heavy metal ....
ore, and iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
, as well as limestone. In 15th century Kielce became a significant centre of metallurgy. There were also several glass factories and armourer shops in the town. In 1527 bishop Piotr Tomicki founded a bell for the church and between 1637 and 1642 Manierist palace was erected near the market place by Bishop Jakub Zadzik

Jakub Zadzik

Jakub Zadzik , Great Crown Secretary from 1613 to 1627, bishop of Chelmno from 1624, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1627, Great Crown Chancellor from 1628 to 1635, bishop of Krak?w from 1635, diplomat, szlachcic, magnate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
. It is one of the very few examples of French Renaissance architecture in Poland and the only example of a magnate's manor from the times of Vasa dynasty to survive the World War II.

During The Deluge

The Deluge (Polish history)

In the history of Poland and History of Lithuania, the Deluge commonly refers to a series of wars in the mid-to-late 17th century which left the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins....
the town was pillaged and burnt by the Swedes

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. Only the palace and the church survived, but the town managed to recover under the rule of bishop Andrzej Zaluski

Andrzej Stanislaw Zaluski

Andrzej Stanislaw Kostka Zaluski was a priest in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.In his religious career he held the an abbot and later the posts of bishop of Plock , bishop of Luck , bishop of Chelmno and bishop of Cracow ....
. By 1761 Kielce had more than 4,000 inhabitants. In 1789 Kielce were nationalised and the burgers were granted the right to elect their own representatives in Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Poland parliament.Before the 20th century, the term "Sejm" referred to the entire three-Chambers of parliament Polish parliament, comprising the lower house , the upper house and the monarch....
. Until the end of the century the city's economy entered a period of fast growth. A brewery

Brewery

A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of beer, though beer can be made in the home, and has been for much of beer's history. A company which makes beer is called either a brewery or a brewing company....
was founded as well as several brick manufactories, a horse breeder, hospital, school and a religious college.

As a result of the 3rd Partition

Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth....
the town was annexed by Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
. During the Polish-Austrian War of 1809 it was captured by prince Józef Poniatowski and joined with the Duchy of Warsaw

Duchy of Warsaw

The Duchy of Warsaw was a Poland state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit....
, but after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815 it was joined with the Kingdom of Poland

Congress Poland

Congress Poland [], officially and formally Kingdom of Poland and informally known as Russian Poland was a constitutional personal union of the Russian Empire created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, replaced by the Central Powers in 1915 with the Kingdom of Poland ....
. For a brief period when Kraków was an independent city-state

City-state

A city-state is an independent country whose territory consists solely of a single major city and the area immediately surrounding it. Examples include the city-states of ancient Greece , the Phoenician cities of Canaan , the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia , the Mayans of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica , the central Asian cities along the Silk Roa...
(Republic of Kraków), Kielce became the capital of the Kraków Voivodeship

Kraków Voivodeship

Krak?w Voivodeship, refers to several historical Voivodeships of Poland in the surrounding regions, with the city of Krak?w as its capital....
. Thanks to the efforts by Stanislaw Staszic

Stanislaw Staszic

Stanislaw Staszic was a Poland priest, philosopher, statesman, geologist, scholar, poet and writer, a leader of the Polish Enlightenment, famous for works related to the "Great" or "Four-Year Sejm" and its Constitution of May 3, 1791....
Kielce became the centre of the newly-established Old-Polish Industrial Zone (Staropolski Okreg Przemyslowy). The town grew quickly as new mines, quarries and factories were constructed. In 1816 the first Polish technical university was founded in Kielce. However, after Staszic's death the Industrial Zone declined and in 1826 the school was moved to Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
and became the Warsaw University of Technology

Warsaw University of Technology

Warsaw University of Technology is the renowned academic school of technology in Poland, and one of the largest in Central Europe, employing 2,000 professors....
.

In 1830 many of the inhabitants of Kielce took part in the November Uprising against Russia. In 1844 a priest Piotr Sciegienny intended a local uprising to liberate Kielce from Russian rule, for which he was sent to Siberia

Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
. In 1863 Kielce took part in the January Uprising. As a reprisal for insubordination the tsarist authorities closed all Polish schools and turned Kielce into a military garrison city. Polish language

Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
was banned. Because of that many gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar schools in the United Kingdoms or sixth form colleges and U.S....
students took part in the 1905 Revolution and were joined by factory workers.

After the outbreak of World War I, Kielce were the first Polish city to be liberated from Russian rule by the Polish Legions

Polish Legions

Polish Legions may refer to, in chronological order:* Polish Legion in Turkey, formed around 1770s, as part of the Confederation of Bar* Polish Legions in Italy, created by Henryk Dabrowski during the Napoleonic Wars...
under Józef Pilsudski

Józef Pilsudski

]]In 1892 Pilsudski returned from exile. In 1893 he joined the Polish Socialist Party and helped organize its Lithuanian branch. Initially he sided with the Socialists' more radical wing, but despite the socialist movement's ostensible internationalism he remained a Polish nationalist....
. After the war when Poland regained its independence after 123 years of Partitions, Kielce became the capital of Kielce Voivodeship. The plans of strengthening of Polish heavy and war industries resulted in Kielce becoming one of the main nodes of the Central Industrial Area (Centralny Okreg Przemyslowy). The town housed several big factories, among them munitions factory "Granat" and food processing plant Spolem.

During the Polish Defensive War

Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland in 1939 precipitated World War II. It was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak invasion of Poland contingent....
of 1939 main part of the defenders of Westerplatte

Westerplatte

Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdansk, Poland, located on Baltic Sea coast at the river mouth of the Dead Vistula , in the Gdansk harbour channel....
as well as armoured brigade of General Stanislaw Maczek

Stanislaw Maczek

General Stanislaw Maczek was the most accomplished Polish tank commander of World War II. A veteran of World War I, the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Bolshevik Wars, he was the commander of Poland's only major armoured formation during the September 1939 campaign, again commanded a Polish armoured formation in France in 1940, and was comma...
were either from Kielce or from its close suburbs. During the occupation that lasted for most of the World War II the town was an important centre of resistance. There were several resistance groups active in the town (among them the Armia Krajowa

Armia Krajowa

The Armia Krajowa , abbreviated "AK", was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II Nazi Germany-History of Poland . It was formed in February 1942 from the Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej and over the next two years absorbed most other Polish underground forces....
(AK) and the Gwardia Ludowa

Gwardia Ludowa

Gwardia Ludowa was a communist armed organisation in Poland, organised by the Soviet created Polish Workers Party. It was the largest military organization which refused to join the structures of the Polish Underground State....
(GL)).

Notable acts of resistance:

Theft of 2 tons of TNT from the "Spolem" factory, which were then used by the partisans to make hand grenades.
The daring escape from jail in Kielce of a dozen or so AK members, organised in November 1942 by Stanislaw Depczynski.
A grenade attack by a unit of the GL on the Smolenski coffee shop, killing 6 Germans including a major in the SS (February 1943).
Assassination of the noted Gestapo officer Franz Wittek on 15 June 1944, by a unit under 2Lt. Kazimierz Smolak on the corner of Solna and Paderewskiego streets. One of the attackers died during the attack and a further four lost their lives not long afterwards. This was not the first assassination attempt against Wittek. Already in 1942 Henryk Pawelec fired at him in the market square, but his pistol misfired. In February 1943 a unit under the command of Stanislaw Fafar shot at Wittek by the Seminarium building, but Wittek, although wounded by 14 bullets, survived.
Successful assassinations of local collaborators, including the shooting of Jan Bocian in broad daylight in a shop in Bodzentynska street.
An attack on the factory of C. Wawrzyniak in March 1943, terrorizing and disarming the volksdeutscher workers and destroying the machinery.
An attack on the "Hasag" factory in May 1943 and the takeover of the Kielce Herbskie railway station.

Moreover, the hills and forests of Holy Cross Mountains became a scene of heavy partisan

Partisan (military)

A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation. The term can apply to the field element of resistance movements that opposed Nazi Germany rule in several countries during World War II, or those who after the war fought the Soviet Union in the Eastern blo...
activity. A small town of Pinczów

Pinczów

Pincz?w [] is a town in Poland, in Swietokrzyskie Voivodship, about 40 km south of Kielce. It is the capital of Pincz?w County. Population is 11,943 ....
located some 30 kilometres from Kielce became the capital of the so-called Pinczów Republic, a piece of Polish land controlled by the partisans. The Swietokrzyskie Mountains Home Army District fought against the Germans long before the Operation Tempest

Operation Tempest

Operation Tempest was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II by the Polish Home Army .The chief goal of Operation Storm was to seize control of cities and areas where German forces were preparing their defenses against the Soviet Red Army, so that Polish underground civil authorities could take power before the arriva...
started inflicting heavy casualties on the occupying forces and later taking part in the final liberation of their towns and cities in January 1945. During the war many of inhabitants of Kielce lost their lives. Today, Kielce is a rapidly developing city, of growing regional importance.

Jews

On the eve of the Second World War there were 24,000 Jewish inhabitants in Kielce, which were around one-third of the population at the time. Immediately after the German occupation in September 1939 action have been taken against the Jews - fines, confiscation of property, forced labour, etc' were forced on the Jewish population. In April 1941 the Jewish ghetto

Ghetto

A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure."...
was established and the Jews were forced to move into it. Many of the Jews were forced labour at a German ammunition plant. In August 1942 the extermination of the Jewish ghetto has started and in 5 days all the Jews in the ghetto but 2,000 Jews who were sent to another forced labour camp were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka II was a Germany extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II. Around 850,000 people - more than 99.5 percent of them Jews, but also other victims were killed there between July 1942 and October 1943; the camp was closed after a revolt during which a few Germans were killed and a small number of prisoners escaped....
.

After the war some of the Jews came back to Kielce but on July 4, 1946 after an allegations of blood libel over 35 Jews were murdered by the local Polish population, see Kielce pogrom

Kielce pogrom

The Kielce pogrom refers to the events that occurred on July 4, 1946, in the Poland town of Kielce. The outbreak of Antisemitism violence, sparked by allegations of blood libel, resulted in 37 Polish Jews being murdered out of about 200 Holocaust survivors who had returned home after World War II....
.

Tourists attractions

* Palace of Cracow Bishops (1637–1641): summer residence of Bishops of Cracow, built in early baroque style by Giovanni Battista Trevano

Giovanni Battista Trevano

Giovanni Battista Trevano was an Italian architect from Lombardy who worked in Poland as royal architect for King Sigismund III Vasa, of the Swedish dynasty of Vasa, who was ruling Poland at the time....
and Tomasz Poncino; houses a museum with an important gallery of Polish paintings

Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
Cathedral (12th century, rebuilt 1632–1635 and again in 19th century)
Holy Trinity Church (1640–1644)
Tomasz Zielinski romantic manor (1846–1858)
Old Town market (18th century)
Sienkiewicza Street
Sienkiewicza Street, Kielce

Sienkiewicza Street in Kielce is the main commercial and historic "artery" of the city of Kielce, Poland. It was built in the middle of the 19th century....
Stefan Zeromski
Stefan Zeromski

Stefan Zeromski was a Poland novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, J?zef Katerla and Stefan Iksmorez....
museum
Synagogue (renaissance)
5 geological nature reserve
Nature reserve

A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora , fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for Conservation ethic and to provide special opportunities for study or research....
s in town area
Kadzielnia Gorge (a former quarry where many of the East German
German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic was a self-declared socialist state created in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the East Berlin of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany....
westerns were shot) - including parts of the
Holy Cross Mountains

Education

Politechnika Swietokrzyska (Kielce University of Technology
Kielce University of Technology

The Kielce University of Technology is a relatively young institution, although the traditions of higher education in Kielce go back to the beginning of the 19th century....
)
Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana Kochanowskiego (Jan Kochanowski University
Jan Kochanowski University

Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce formerly the Swietokrzyska Academy is a public university in Kielce, Poland, dating its tradition to an educational institution estabilished in 1945....
)
Swietokrzyska Szkola Wyzsza
Wszechnica Swietokrzyska
Wyzsza Szkola Administracji Publicznej
Wyzsza Szkola Ekonomii i Prawa im. prof. Edwarda Lipinskiego
Wyzsza Szkola Handlowa im. Boleslawa Markowskiego
Wyzsza Szkola Umiejetnosci
Wyzsza Szkola Technik Komputerowych i Telekomunikacji
Wyzsza Szkola Zarzadzania Gospodarka Regionalna i Turystyka
Wyzsza Szkola Telekomunikacji i Informatyki
Towarzystwo Wiedzy Powszechnej OR Kielce
Juliusz Slowacki High School
Stefan Zeromski High School
Jan Sniadecki High School
Hanka Sawicka High School
sw. Jadwiga Królowa High School

Culture

Cinemas

"Moskwa"
"Kinoplex"

Theatres

Stefan Zeromski Theatre
Kieleckie Centrum Kultury - KCK
"Kubus" - The puppet and actor Theatre

Sports

Korona Kielce
Korona Kielce

Korona Kielce, Wikibooks:Polish/Polish pronunciation , is a Polish football club, currently playing in the Polish First League....
- men's football
Football in Poland

Association football, is the most popular Sports in Poland in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally....
team, promoted to 2nd league in season 2004/2005. Qualified to the 1st league (Orange Ekstraklasa
Orange Ekstraklasa

The Ekstraklasa Polish: The Extraclass is the top division of Poland association football premier league.The Ekstraklasa was formed as Liga Pilki Noznej on 1 March 1927 in Warsaw, but Polish Championships as non-league competition and The Polish Football Federation PZPN had been organized on 20 December 1919 in Warsaw, a year a...
) in 2005/2006, when they completed their new, modern stadium. Currently relegated to 1st Polish League (former Second League).
Vive Kielce (Iskra Kielce) men's Handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Mens's Handball League, few times Champions and medalist of Poland (winner in 1993 1994 1996 1998 1999 2003, second places in 1995 2004, third places in 1980 1997 2001 2005 ) .
KKL Kielce (athletics) -
- Capoeira Club in Kielce
Muay Thai Kielce
Zak Kielce (judo club)
Kielecki Klub Karate Kyokushin
Rushh Kielce (boxing club)
Gwardia Kielce (boxing club)
KS FART Kielce (volleyball club)
Orleta Kielce (football club, IV league)
Polonia Bialogon Kielce (football club)
Czarnovia Kielce (football club)
AZS Politechnika Kielce (football club)
AZS WSU Kielce (football club)
Scyzory Kielce (American football)
Tecza Kielce
Contact Kielce billiards club from Kielce, Champion of Poland and medalist of Polish League

Politics

Kielce constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm

Sejm

Przemyslaw Gosiewski
Przemyslaw Gosiewski

Przemyslaw Edgar Gosiewski is a Polish politician and a member of Law and Justice party. He was elected to Sejm in 2001 and reelected on September 25, 2005, receiving 31,253 votes in 33 Kielce district as a candidate on the Law and Justice list....
, PiS (votes: 31253)
Konstanty Miodowicz
Konstanty Miodowicz

Konstanty Miodowicz is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 14505 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
, PO (14505)
Wlodzimierz Stepien
Wlodzimierz Stepien

Wlodzimierz Stepien is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 12655 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Democratic Left Alliance list....
, SLD (12655)
Malgorzata Olejnik
Malgorzata Olejnik

Malgorzata Olejnik is a Poland politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 12398 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list....
, Samoobrona (12398)
Józef Cepil
Józef Cepil

J?zef Cepil is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 10526 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list....
, Samoobrona (10526)
Krzysztof Grzegorek
Krzysztof Grzegorek

Krzysztof Grzegorek is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 8730 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
, PO (8730)
Radoslaw Parda
Radoslaw Parda

Radoslaw Parda is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7856 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Liga Polskich Rodzin list....
, LPR (7856)
Leszek Sulek
Leszek Sulek

Leszek Sulek is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7590 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list....
, Samoobrona (7590)
Miroslaw Pawlak
Miroslaw Pawlak

Miroslaw Pawlak is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 6684 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe list....
, PSL (6684)
Halina Olendzka
Halina Olendzka

Halina Olendzka is a Poland politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5386 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc list....
, PiS (5386)
Henryk Milcarz
Henryk Milcarz

Henryk Milcarz is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5251 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Democratic Left Alliance list....
, SLD (5251)
Andrzej Palys
Andrzej Palys

Andrzej Palys is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5055 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe list....
, PSL (5055)
Krzysztof Lipiec
Krzysztof Lipiec

Krzysztof Lipiec is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 4697 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Law and Justice list....
, PiS (4697)
Jaroslaw Rusiecki
Jaroslaw Rusiecki

Jaroslaw Rusiecki is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 4009 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc list....
, PiS (4009)
Zbigniew Pacelt
Zbigniew Pacelt

Zbigniew Pacelt is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3982 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
, PO (3982)
Maria Zuba
Maria Zuba

Maria Zuba is a Poland politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3397 votes in 33 Kielce district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc list....
, PiS (3397)

Famous people

Czeslaw Biezanko
Czeslaw Biezanko

Czeslaw Marian Biezanko was a Poland entomologist and recognized authority on South American butterfly.He was professor of the Agronomic College in Pelotas and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Agricultural Academy....
, Polish entomologist
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski was a Polish essayist and thinker. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - A World Apart ....
, writer
Stefan Zeromski
Stefan Zeromski

Stefan Zeromski was a Poland novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, J?zef Katerla and Stefan Iksmorez....
, writer
Przemyslaw Gosiewski
Przemyslaw Gosiewski

Przemyslaw Edgar Gosiewski is a Polish politician and a member of Law and Justice party. He was elected to Sejm in 2001 and reelected on September 25, 2005, receiving 31,253 votes in 33 Kielce district as a candidate on the Law and Justice list....
, politician
Adolf Dygasinski
Adolf Dygasinski

Adolf Dygasinski was a Poland novelist, publicist and educator. In Polish literature, he was a leading representative of Naturalism ....
, writer
Jan Czarnocki, geologist
Edmund Niziurski
Edmund Niziurski

Edmund Niziurski - - is a popular Polish writer, author of hundreds of humorous novels and stories for children, adolescents and adults, written with a specific kind of irony....
, writer
Rafal Olbinski
Rafal Olbinski

Rafal Olbinski is a Poland graphic artist, stage designer and surrealist painter.Olbinski's illustrations regularly appear in major publications such as Newsweek, Time, Business Week, Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Omni, The New York Times, New Yorker and Der Spiegel....
,Polish graphic artist, stage designer and surrealist painter
Stanislaw Staszic
Stanislaw Staszic

Stanislaw Staszic was a Poland priest, philosopher, statesman, geologist, scholar, poet and writer, a leader of the Polish Enlightenment, famous for works related to the "Great" or "Four-Year Sejm" and its Constitution of May 3, 1791....
, Polish priest, philosopher, statesman, poet and writer, a leader of the Polish Enlightenment
Krzysztof Klicki
Krzysztof Klicki

Krzysztof Klicki is the president of Kolporter. He was the owner of Korona Kielce football club.Mr Klicki is on the list of the 100 richest Poles....
, president of Kolporter Holding
Kolporter Holding

Kolporter Holding is a company that was built by Krzysztof Klicki, a Polish self-made man. His first company Kolporter started after transformation in Poland....
, owner of Korona Kielce
Korona Kielce

Korona Kielce, Wikibooks:Polish/Polish pronunciation , is a Polish football club, currently playing in the Polish First League....
Michal Solowow
Michal Solowow

Michal Solowow ? Polish businessman and racing driver. The European vice-champion , vice-champion of Poland , the European vice-champion , two-time Vice-champion of Poland ....
, businessman, shareholder of: Cersanit S.A., Echo Investment, Barlinek, Zycie Warszawy
Zycie Warszawy

Zycie Warszawy is a local Poland newspaper published in Warsaw. It was founded in October 1944 as an initiative of Polish Workers' Party. Currently it is published by Dom Prasowy Sp. z o.o. and owned by Michal Solowow....
, one of the richest Polish people
Leszek Drogosz
Leszek Drogosz

Leszek Drogosz is a retired Polish boxer and actor.He thrice won the gold medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Light welterweight division at Warsaw 1953 and West Berlin 1955, and in the Welterweight division at Lucerne 1959....
, boxer, 3 times European Champion, Olympic medalist
Wincenty z Kielc

Actors, vocalists, persons related with media

Krzysztof "K.A.S.A" Kasowski vocalist
Piotr Marzec better known as Liroy
Liroy

Piotr Marzec , better known as Liroy , is a rapping living in Kielce.Pioneer & Godfather of Hip hop music & hip-hop culture in Poland.Unlike most other Polish hip hop performers, he achieved commercial success....
(Leeroy), rapper
Andrzej Piaseczny vocalist
Leszek Kumanski writer, journalist, stage manager
Wieslaw Golas actor
Dagmara Dominczyk
Dagmara Dominczyk

Dagmara Dominczyk is a Poland-United States actress....
Marika Dominczyk
Marika Dominczyk

Marika Dominczyk is a Poland-United States actress....

Sportsmen

Pawel Brozek
Pawel Brozek

Pawel Brozek is a Polish football er who currently plays for Wisla Krak?w and Poland national football team. He plays as a striker....
footballer (Polonia Bialogon, GKS Katowice
GKS Katowice

GKS Katowice, Wikibooks:Polish/Polish pronunciation , is a Polish football club based in Katowice, Poland. The club now plays in the Polish First League....
, Wisla Kraków
Wisla Kraków

Wisla Krak?w is a Polish football club based in Krak?w, Poland. From 1906-1945 and from 1990-1997 it was known as Sports Society Wisla , after World War II the club became known as Wisla Krak?w....
)
Leszek Drogosz
Leszek Drogosz

Leszek Drogosz is a retired Polish boxer and actor.He thrice won the gold medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Light welterweight division at Warsaw 1953 and West Berlin 1955, and in the Welterweight division at Lucerne 1959....
boxer
Zbigniew Piatek cyclist
Piotr Stokowiec (Orleta Kielce, Polonia Warszawa
Polonia Warszawa

Polonia Warszawa,...
,Wigry Suwalki
Wigry Suwalki

Wigry Suwalki is a Polish football club playing currently in Polish Poland III Liga....
)
Michal Solowow
Michal Solowow

Michal Solowow ? Polish businessman and racing driver. The European vice-champion , vice-champion of Poland , the European vice-champion , two-time Vice-champion of Poland ....
rally driver

Twin Towns - Sister Cities

Kielce is twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
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Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
in Hungary

Hungary

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Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Buh, in central Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Vinnytsia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Vinnytskyi Raion within the oblast....
in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
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Gotha

Gotha (town)

Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the Gotha ....
in Germany

Germany

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Flint

Flint, Michigan

Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River , 66 miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a population of 124,943, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan....
in Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, United States

United States

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Sandviken

Sandviken may refer to:* Sandviken Municipality, a Swedish municipality* Sandviken, Sweden, a town in Sandviken municipality* Sandviken, Blekinge, a beach in Sweden...
in Sweden

Sweden

Gävle

G?vle ['j?:vl?] is a city in east central Sweden with 68,700 inhabitants . It is the seat of G?vle Municipality with a population of 92,416 and of G?vleborg County....
in Sweden

Sweden

Orange

Orange, Vaucluse

Orange is a town and Communes of France in the Departments of France of Vaucluse, in the south of France. It has a population of 27,989 people , with a primarily agricultural economy....
in France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
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Nitra

Nitra is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the Nitra River valley. With a population of 85,000, it is the fourth largest city in Slovakia....
in Slovakia

Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
.

Dniprodzerzhinsk in Ukraine

Ukraine

Gorizia

Gorizia is a town in northeastern Italy, at the foot of the Alps and bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, and is a local center of tourism, industry, and commerce....
in Italy

Italy

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Herning

Herning is a municipality in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,336 square kilometre and a total population of 84,208 ....
in Denmark

Denmark

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Gallery

Manierist
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
palace complex

Image:MNKI.jpg|Bishops' Palace, 1637–1641 Image:Ogród Wloski 03 ssj 20060715.jpg|Garden façade of the Palace Image:Ogród Wloski 01 ssj 20060715.jpg|Terraced Italian garden, 17th century Image:Katedra Kielce 01 ssj 20060513.jpg|Cathedral, rebuilt 1632–1635

Other architectural monuments

Image:Kosciól Swietego Wojciecha w Kielcach 02 ssj 20061112.jpg|St. Adalbert Church dating back to 10th century Image:Kosciól Swietej Trójcy w Kielcach 01 ssj 20060513.jpg|Holy Trinity Church, built 1640–1644 Image:Kielce-karczowka.jpg|Karczówka Monastery, built 1624–1631 Image:Kielce kosciól garnizonowy.jpg|Garrison Church, built 1902–1904

Kielce

History

Jews

Tourists attractions

Education

Culture

Cinemas

Theatres

Sports

Politics

Kielce constituency

Famous people

Actors, vocalists, persons related with media

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Twin Towns - Sister Cities

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