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  Silesian Voivodship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Silesian voivodship lies in the south of Poland and is bordered by the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Strong links of the present Silesian voivodship (comprising area known as the Upper Silesia) with the Opole and Lower Silesian Voivodships is justified and motivated by historical identity of the Duchy of Silesia (Ksiestwo Śląskie) divided in the 13th century into the Upper and Lower Silesia.
Katowice airport is used for domestic and international flights and the Silesian agglomeration railway network has the largest concentration in the country.
www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Silesian_Voivodship   (852 words)

  
 katowice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Katowice is the capital of the administrative and local government region called Silesian Voivodship since 1999, and previously capital of Katowice Voivodship.
Katowice is the main city of the Upper Silesian Industrial Area, much like the Ruhr area in Germany.
Wyższa Szkoła Umiejętności Społecznych; in Poznań, branch in Katowice
www.yourencyclopedia.net /katowice.html   (411 words)

  
 Casino Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Katowice is the main city of the Upper Silesian Industrial Area.
During 1953–1956 Katowice was named Stalinogród, which was an homage to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, given by the totalitarian, communist authorities of Poland.
Katowice's Rynek is the old center and marketplace of the city.
casinoencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Katowice   (604 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Kraków Voivodship
Kraków Voivodship (1) 1975-1998 (Polish: województwo krakowskie) also Kraków Metropolitan Voivodship (województwo miejskie krakowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Lesser Poland Voivodship.
Kraków Voivodship (2) 1945-1975 (Polish: województwo krakowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1945-1975, superseded by Kraków (1), Tarnow Voivodship, Nowy Sacz Voivodship and partly Bielsko-Biala Voivodship, Katowice Voivodship and Kielce Voivodship.
Kraków Voivodship (4) 14th c.-1795 (Latin: Palatinatus Cracoviensis, Polish: Województwo Krakowskie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Krak%F3w_Voivodship   (314 words)

  
 Station Information - Krakow Voivodship
Krakow Voivodship (1) (Polish: województwo krakowskie) also Krakow Metropolitan Voivodship (województwo miejskie krakowskie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Lesser Poland Voivodship.
Krakow Voivodship (2) (Polish: województwo krakowskie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1945-1975, superseded by Krakow (1), Tarnow Voivodship, Nowy Sacz Voivodship and partly Bielsko-Biala Voivodship, Katowice Voivodship and Kielce Voivodship.
Krakow Voivodship (4) (Latin: Palatinatus Cracoviensis, Polish: województwo krakowskie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/k/kr/krakow_voivodship.html   (141 words)

  
 Opole Voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Opole voivodship has the highest percentage of the German minority of all voivodships of the country.
The Opole voivodship is a green region with three large lakes: Turawskie, Nyskie and Otmuchowskie (the latter two are connected).
Opole Voivodship (2) (Polish: województwo opolskie) - was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Opole Voivodship (1).
polska.asinah.net /en/wikipedia/o/op/opole_voivodship.html   (1218 words)

  
 chorzow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Chorzów is a separate city county since 1898, with the exception of 1975-1998 when the counties were abolished in Poland.
Since 1999 Chorzów is part of Silesian Voivodship, previously of Katowice Voivodship.
Chorzów was a separate city county Katowice Voivodship, with the exception of 1975-1998 when the counties were abolished in Poland.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /chorzow.html   (1562 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This action was taken by the Voivod of Katowice pursuant to the May 1991 Law on the Municipalities which provides, inter alia, for the transfer of ownership of state-owned enterprises to the municipalities they serve.
The Katowice voivodship is still the founding organ of PEC, but the assets are expected to be transferred during 1994 from the Voivodship to the five - 13 - municipalities served by PEC.
The Katowice Voivodship ranks as the worst area in Poland in many health indicators, and human health has suffered from this environmental and degradation.
www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1994/10/01/000009265_3961006085818/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt   (16789 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The territory of the present Province of Katowice is in Upper Silesia, The most important industries include fuel and power engineering, coal-mining, metallurgy (non-ferrous, iron and steel), electrical and machine building, food processing, chemicals, minerals, light industry, wood and paper.
Katowice province is one of the largest banking centres in the country, hosting the headquarters of 4 banks and 28 branch offices of other banks.
In Katowice voivodship there are 8 branches of the Polish Academy of Science, and 28 scientific institutes and departments.
cibs.tamu.edu /gmrg/Gazette5.doc   (2104 words)

  
 Opole Voivodship
The Opole Voivodship (in Polish województwo opolskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in the south of Poland, around the city of Opole in the region of Silesia (Slask).
In this Voivodship there is a large German Minority.
The Opole voivodship is the smallest region in the administrative make-up of the country, both in terms of area and population.
www.ukpedia.com /o/opole-voivodship.html   (652 words)

  
 Catalogue of Investment Opportunities in Polish Cities and Communes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The voivodship is intersected by the region’s historical routes connecting Cracow with Wrocław and Ostrava.
The Katowice Conurbation, having the greatest concentration of infrastructure, is the largest transport junction in Poland.
Silesian (Śląskie) Voivodship owes its unique economic position to the fact that it is the most industrialized and urbanized region in Poland.
www.polishcities.pl /english/dane/slaskie.htm   (221 words)

  
 RePEc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Ruhr area in Germany and Katowice Voivodship in Poland are the two hot spots in Europe of heavy metal pollution.
These requirements are used as criteria for an assessment of historical policies in the Ruhr area and current approaches in the Katowice Voivodship.
Based on the identification of the successes as well as the failures of efforts in the Ruhr area and the strengths and deficits of current approaches in Katowice guidelines are proposed for improving environment - economy integration for land maintenance.
www.inomics.com /cgi/repec?handle=RePEc:wop:iasawp:IR98006   (594 words)

  
 Opole Voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
id:Provinsi Opolskiepl:Wojew%F3dztwo_opolskiede:Woiwodschaft Oppeln Opole voivodship since 1999 1) Opole Voivodship (since 1999) or Opole Silesia (Polish: województwo opolskie, Śląsk Opolski) is an administrative and local government region created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Opole (2) and parts of Czestochowa voivodships as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
The major part of the voivodships area is situated on the Silesian Lowland (''Nizina Slaska'').
Opole voivodship 1975-1999 Opole Voivodship (2) (Polish: województwo opolskie) - was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Opole Voivodship (1).
opole-voivodship.search.ipupdater.com   (656 words)

  
 opole_voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Opole Voivodship is one of the least known ones in Poland, it is located quite far off from Warsaw on the Czech border, in the south west of the county.
Opole Voivodship Silesian Voivodship The Opole and Silesian Voivodships are sometimes called Upper Silesia.
Opole Voivodship Opole 14 Silesian Voivodship Katowice 15 Malopolska Voivodship Cracow 16 Podkarpackie Voivodship Rzeszow © 2005 PolandforAll.com Poland
opole_voivodship.networklive.org   (228 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Katowice
Katowice (pronounce: Katowice.ogg, original former Polish name Kątowicze, 1953-1956 Stalinogród - "Stalin City", Czech Katovice, German Kattowitz) is an important city of the historical region of Upper Silesia in southern Poland on the Klodnica and Rawa rivers.
The city flourished due to large mineral (especially coal) deposits in the nearby mountains.
The Spodek is a large sports centre /concert hall, whose name translates as the 'saucer', from its distinctive shape resembling a UFO flying saucer.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Katowice   (718 words)

  
 SLASKIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Silesia or Silesian Voivodship(1) is a administrative region and local government unit in Poland, established in 1999 out of Katowice, Czestochowa and Bielsko-Biala voivodships as a result of Local Goverment Reorganisation Act of 1998 (effective 1 January 1999).
Strong links of the present Silesian voivodship (comprising area known as the Upper Silesia) with the Opole and Lower Silesian Voivodships is justified and motivated by historical identity of the Duchy of Silesia (Ksiestwo Slaskie) divided in the 13th century into the Upper and Lower Silesia.
The Silesian voivodship has the highest population density in the country (398 people, as compared to the national average of 124 people, per square kilometre).
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/SLASKIE   (846 words)

  
 Opole Voivodship -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Opole voivodship lies in south-western (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland.
The favourable (The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time) climate, fertile soils and high farming culture contribute to the development of (The class of people engaged in growing food) agriculture, which is among the most productive in the country.
Opole Voivodship (2) ((The property of being smooth and shiny) Polish: województwo opolskie) - was a unit of administrative division and local government in (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Opole Voivodship (1).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Op/Opole_Voivodship.htm   (996 words)

  
 Dabrowa Gornicza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The "Huta Bankowa" steel works, which is still an active endeavor, 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.
In the 1990s all coal mines there had been closed, because of lack of coal.
www.olive-oil-facts.info /en/wikipedia/d/da/dabrowa_gornicza.html   (129 words)

  
 szczep
The Katowice region and former Katowice voivodship (see Map 1.) - taken here with the core of Upper Silesian Industrial Region - covers the area of 6650 km what constitutes 2.1% of the Polish territory; yet living here are almost four million people, that is, nearly 10.2% of Polish population.
The Katowice region delivers to the atmosphere 20% of "Polish dusts" and 15% of gases emitted, and here again 15% of industrial effluents are delivered directly to the surface waters.
Key problems of restructuring of the Katowice region are inevitably connected with a radical reconstruction and reduction of employment in the mining industry.
www.sunderland.ac.uk /~os0hva/szep.htm   (6235 words)

  
 Poland - Law On Elections To Senate 1989   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The area of a voivodship is a constituency in the elections to the Senate.
Two senators are elected within a single constituency; in the constituencies covering the area of the Warsaw voivodship and the Katowice voivodship, three senators are elected for each.
With a view to holding elections to the Senate, voivodship electoral commissions are established on the basis specified for constituency electoral commissions.
www2.essex.ac.uk /elect/electjp/pl_89sen.htm   (563 words)

  
 Voivodship of Katowice : Good practice case study | IDELE
The example of the Voivodship of Katowice provides a good example of these forms of governance in a traditionally centralised new Member State.
In 1997 the Voivodship of Katowice has started establishing Local Development Agencies as a basis for the development of Local Pacts as initiatives for community support for development.
The mission of the development agencies is to address unemployment and support local economic development in particular cities and poviats.
www.ecotec.com /idele/themes/oldindustrial/katowice   (281 words)

  
 Marek Szczepanski
As a result of several administrative reforms introduced in Poland, the Katowice Voivodship (1975), and then the Silesian Voivodship (1999) emerged from a part of this region.
In 1995 The Regional Contract for the Katowice Voivodship was signed.
It was the first document which stimulated regional authorities, local governments, and political parties to joint actions in favour of healing the region.
www.dgs2002.de /Abstracts/RZ/szczepanski.htm   (565 words)

  
 W. Beblo
The permits are issued by the Voivodship administration that collects fees for use of natural resources and fines for violating a given permit.
The Voivodship administration is also responsible for coordination of all efforts relating planning of investments in environmental protection, research, regional environmental monitoring and co-operation with environmental authorities and organizations.
The emission permit is defined during the negotiations at the voivodship administration in presence of facility's management, PIOS, representatives of municipal authority, NGOs and potentially endangered public.
www.inece.org /2ndvol1/BEBLO.html   (2858 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Voivodship Czernichów (Polish: Województwo Czernihowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 1635 till the partitions of Poland in 1772/1795.
He was the first to take account of the influence of radiation pressure on stellar equilibrium.
Częstochowa Voivodship Czestochowa Voivodship (Polish: województwo częstochowskie) was a unit of administrative division and..
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 Katowice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Katowice es el capital de la región del gobierno administrativo y local llamada Silesian Voivodship desde 1999, y previamente de capital de Katowice Voivodship.
Katowice es la ciudad principal del área industrial silesian superior.
AZS AWF Katowice - equipo del balonmano de las mujeres que juega en liga del balonmano de las mujeres polacas de Ekstraklasa: 11mo lugar en 2003/2004 estación; jugará en la 1ra liga en 2004/2005 estación.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ka/Katowice.htm   (473 words)

  
 Katowice - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Eastward bound: in the run up The Central European Coatings Show to be held in Katowice Terry Knowles explains the marketplace in Poland and well as some...
The coal deal: Mike Woof reports on the Katowice 2001 coal mining show in Poland.
Standard Model and Beyond: Szczyrk, September 19-26 1989 University of Silesia, Katowice : Proceedings of the Xiii International School of Theoretic
www.unipedia.info /Katowice.html   (755 words)

  
 THE OCCURRENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES IN POLAND, IN THE 3rd QUARTER, 1998
Among the occurrences referred to in the statistics for the Katowice Voivodship, there is an occurrence that happened in the area of the Czech Republic (see - Item 156 of the Register, Appendix 1).
Each 2 occurrences were registered in the area of 13 Voivodships, and each 1 occurrence was registered in the area of 7 Voivodships, whereas no occurrence state was registered in the area of 5 Voivodships.
The Katowice Voivode’s issued his Decision calling for restoration of the state of the environment to its original condition, that was partly executed.
www.mos.gov.pl /1materialy_informacyjne/archiwum/zagrozenia_srodowiska/IIIkwartal/anal3_8_eng.htm   (3514 words)

  
 > Silesian Voivodship abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Silesia or Silesian Voivodship(1) is an administrative region and local government unit in Poland, established in 1999 out of Katowice, Częstochowa and Bielsko-Biała voivodships as a result of Local Government Reorganisation Act of 1998 (effective 1 January 1999).
Katowice International Airport is used for domestic and international flights and the Silesian agglomeration railway network has the largest concentration in the country.
The voivodship capital enjoys good railway and road connections with Kraków (highway), Wrocław, Łódź and Warsaw.
www.abcworld.net /Silesian_Voivodship.html   (1239 words)

  
 places cities Katowice Poland
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Gdansk is consideredinvest in after Warsaw and Katowice.
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