Siedlce

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Siedlce (['ɕȋedlʦε] (help·info)) is a town in eastern Poland with 77,092 inhabitants (as of 2005). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the town was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975-1998).

The town was most probably founded some time before 15th century and was first mentioned under the name of Siedlecz in a document of 1448. In 1503 Daniel Siedlecki erected a new village of the same name nearby and a church in the middle. In 1547 the town, created out of a merger of the two villages, was granted with Magdeburg Law by king Sigismund the Old. Until 1807, when it was confiscated by the Russian authorities, it remained a private property of several notable magnate families, among them Czartoryski and Ogiński. During the World War II more than 50% of all buildings in the city, including a historical town hall, were destroyed.

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1 Education
2 Politics
- 2.1 Ostrołęka-Siedlce constituency
- 2.2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Education

[edit] Politics

[edit] Ostrołęka-Siedlce constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Ostrołęka-Siedlce constituency

Chrzanowski Zbigniew, PO
Deptuła Zbigniew, PSL
Dziewulski Zbigniew, Samoobrona
Filipek Krzysztof, Samoobrona
Janowski Gabriel, LPR
Kalinowski Jarosław, PSL
Krutczenko Zbigniew, SLD-UP
Kurpiewski Stanisław, SLD-UP
Józef Oleksy, SLD-UP
Piłka Marian, PiS
Prządka Stanisława, SLD-UP
Sawicki Marek, PSL

[edit] See also

Siedlce Department (Polish: Departament Siedlecki): a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806-1815.

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