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Kielce

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Kielce is a city in central Poland with 207,051 inhabitants (2003). It is also the capital city of the Swietokrzyskie Voivodship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodship (1975-1998).

Table of contents
1 Geography and tourists atractions
2 Education
3 Sports
4 Politics
5 History
6 External Links

Geography and tourists atractions

Baroque Bishops Palace (17th century), Cathedral (12th/17th century)

Interesting geology (5 nature reserves in town area) and vicinity: Holy Cross Mountains

Education

Sports

Politics

Kielce constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Kielce constituency

Municipal politics

to be written yet

History

History: first mentioned in the 11th century.

On July 4, 1946 Kielce was a site of a major Jewish pogrom.

External Links


Poland
Voivodships of Poland
Greater Poland | Kuyavia-Pomerania | Lesser Poland | Lodz | Lower Silesia | Lublin | Lubusz | Masovia | Opole | Podlachia | Pomerania Swietokrzyskie | Silesia | Subcarpathia | Warmia and Masuria | West Pomerania
Principal cities
Warsaw | ŁÃƒÂ³dź | Kraków | Wrocław | Poznań | Gdańsk | Szczecin | Bydgoszcz | Lublin | Katowice | Białystok | Częstochowa | Gdynia | Toruń Radom | Kielce | Rzeszów | Olsztyn

Only 40 Jews died in the great "Kielce pogrom"