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Zawiercie

(Encyclopedia)Zawiercie zävyĕrˈchĕ [key], city (1992 est. pop. 56,000), Śląskie prov., S Poland, on the Warta River. Its industries produce metals, glass, machinery, chemicals, and apparel. Lignite and iron o...

Tarnowskie Góry

(Encyclopedia)Tarnowskie Góry tärnôfˈskyĕ go͞oˈrĭ [key], town (1993 est. pop. 77,700), Śląskie prov., S Poland. It is an industrial center where metal goods, mining and railway equipment, and cement are p...

Poznań

(Encyclopedia)Poznań pōˈzən [key], city (1994 est. pop. 589,300), capital of Weilkopolskie prov., W central Poland, port on the Warta River. It is an important industrial and railway center and is the site of a...

Casimir IV

(Encyclopedia)Casimir IV, 1427–92, king of Poland (1447–92). He became (1440) ruler of Lithuania and in 1447 succeeded his brother Ladislaus III as king of Poland. He united the two nations more closely by plac...

Bydgoszcz

(Encyclopedia)Bydgoszcz bĭdˈgôshch [key], Ger. Bromberg, city (1994 est. pop. 384,000), capital (with Toruń) of Kujawsko-Pomorskie prov., N central Poland, on the Brda River, a tributary of the Vistula. One of ...

Inowrocław

(Encyclopedia)Inowrocław ēnôvrôtsˈläf [key], Ger. Hohensalza, city (1993 est. pop. 78,800), Kujawsko-Pomorskie prov., N central Poland. It is an important railway and industrial center where chemicals and bri...

Sosnowiec

(Encyclopedia)Sosnowiec sôsnôˈvyĕts [key], Ger. Sosnowitz, city (1993 est. pop. 258,500), Śląskie prov., S Poland. A center of the Katowice mining and industrial region, it has coal mines, ironworks, and stee...

Chorzów

(Encyclopedia)Chorzów hôˈzho͞of [key], city, Śląskie prov., S Poland. A rail junction and a center of...

Piła

(Encyclopedia)Piła pēˈlä [key], Ger. Schneidemühl, town (1994 est. pop. 74,000), Wielkopolskie prov., NW Poland, on the Gwdą River. Once the capital of Grenzmark Posen–West Prussia, it is now chiefly a trad...

Wałbrzych

(Encyclopedia)Wałbrzych välˈbzhĭkh [key], Ger. Waldenburg, city (1992 est. pop. 141,300), Dolnośląskie prov., SW Poland. Coal mining, chemical production, metallurgy, and textile milling are the chief economi...