Dąbrowa Górnicza

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Dąbrowa Górnicza
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(Flag)	(Coat of arms)


Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
Municipal government	Rada Miejska Dąbrowy Górniczej
Mayor	Zbigniew Podraza
Area	188 km²
Population - city - urban - density	129 700 - 689/km²
Founded	-
City rights	-
Latitude Longitude	50°19' N 19°16' E
Area code	+48 32
Car plates	SD
Twin towns	-
Municipal Website

Dąbrowa Górnicza (pronounce: Image:Ltspkr.png [dɔ̃'brɔvagur'niʧa]) is a city in southern Poland with 140,000 inhabitants (1999) and a territory of 177 km², in a region called Zagłębie Dąbrowskie.

Since 1999 it has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975 to 1998 it was in in the Katowice Voivodeship.

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1 History
2 Education
3 Famous people born in Dąbrowa Górnicza
4 External links

[edit] History

It started to grow in 19th century, after the discovery of coal near the city. The Huta Bankowa steel works, which is still a going concern, was built in Dabrowa Gornicza in 1834. The 1970s saw the construction of the Huta Katowice steel works, which is nowadays the biggest steel producing plant in Poland. Now it is divided into many small parts working on their own. In the 1990s all coal mines there had been closed, because of lack of coal. But the oldest part of the town Reden still exists.

[edit] Education

Silesian Technical University, Faculty of Chemistry, Industrial and Environmental Chemistry course
Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu
Wyższa Szkoła Planowania Strategicznego

[edit] Famous people born in Dąbrowa Górnicza

Janusz Gajos (b. 1939), actor
Karol Adamiecki (1866–1933), economist, engineer
Sobieslaw Zasada (b. 1930), rally driver, businessman

[edit] External links

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Districts of Metropolis Katowice

Będzin • Bytom • Chorzów • Czeladź • Dąbrowa Górnicza • Gliwice • Jaworzno • Katowice • Knurów • Mysłowice • Piekary Śląskie • Ruda Śląska • Siemianowice Śląskie • Sosnowiec • Świętochłowice • Tychy • Zabrze

Image:Śląskie herb.svg	Silesian Voivodship
Cities: Bielsko-Biała \| Bytom \| Chorzów \| Częstochowa \| Dąbrowa Górnicza \| Gliwice \| Jastrzębie Zdrój \| Jaworzno \| Katowice \| Mysłowice \| Piekary Śląskie \| Ruda Śląska \| Rybnik \| Siemianowice Śląskie \| Sosnowiec \| Świętochłowice \| Tychy \| Zabrze \| Żory Powiats: Będzin \| Bielsko \| Bieruń-Lędziny \| Cieszyn \| Częstochowa \| Gliwice \| Kłobuck \| Lubliniec \| Mikołów \| Myszków \| Pszczyna \| Racibórz \| Rybnik \| Tarnowskie Góry \| Wodzisław \| Zawiercie \| Żywiec

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Silesian Voivodship