DĄBROWA GÓRNICZA

dôNbrôˈvä gôrnēˈchä, Ger. Dombrowa, city (1993 est. pop. 139,700), Śląskie prov., SE Poland, on the Czarna Przemsza River, a tributary of the Vistula. It is a railway junction and a center of the Katowice mining and industrial region. Coal mining in the area dates from 1796. Coal mining and steel production are the chief economic activities. Dąbrowa Górnicza passed to Prussia in 1795 and to Russia in 1815. During the 19th cent. it was an important center for research in mining and metallurgy. The city reverted to Poland in 1919.

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books on: DAbrowa GOrnicza  - 14 results

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The Dent Atlas of the Holocaust
Book by Martin Gilbert; Dent, 1993
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Maps
...Czyzew, 74, 168, 211 d D Dabas, 257 Dabie, 38, 39, 95, 138 Dabrony, 258 Dabrowa Bialostocka, 168, 211 Dabrowa Gornicza, 14, 36, 61, 122, 207 Dabrowa Tarnowska, 128 Dabrowica, 72, 142 Dabrowka, 27 Dachau, 6, 9, 15, 18, 22...
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The Eastern European Economy in Context: Communism and the Transition
Book by David Turnock; Routledge, 1997
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Economic Conditions--1989-, Post-Communism--Europe, Eastern
...Olkusz and Siewierz-Zawiercie; steelmaking at Dabrowa Gornicza (Huta Katowice), and chemicals at Alwernia, extending...on modernisation. Thus the enormous investment at Dabrowa Gornicza (including a broad gauge railway link with FSU...
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Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival
Book by Donald L. Niewyk; University of North Carolina Press, 1998
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal Narratives, Jews--Biography
...They also felt that they were better, more important people. In Dabrowa-Gornicza there was a shop where shoes were manufactured. This industry...3. A larger industrial town a few miles west of Dabrowa-Gornicza.
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Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland: A Portrait Based on Jewish Community Records, 1944-1947
Book by Lucjan Dobroszycki; M.E. Sharpe, 1994
Subjects: Holocaust Survivors--Poland--History--Sources, Jews--Poland--History--Sources, Poland--Ethnic Relations--Sources
...D 11 Czyzew -- D 7 Daugieliszki -- A 11 Dawidgrodek -- D 12 Dabie n/Nerem -- D 3 Dabrowa G odz. -- C 8 Dabrowa k/Tar. -- F 6 Dabrowa Gornicza -- F 4 Dabrowica k/Kutna -- D4 Dabrowica k/Saren --E11 Demidowka -- F 10 Delatyn...
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Industrial Control over the Socialist Town: Benevolence or Exploitation?
Book by Bolesław Domański; Praeger, 1997
Subjects: Business And Politics--Communist Countries, Business And Politics--Poland, Cities And Towns--Communist Countries, Cities And Towns--Poland, Company Towns--Communist Countries, Company Towns--Poland, Industries--Social Aspects--Communist Countries, Industries--Social Aspects--Poland
...industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s: seventeen fields in Dabrowa Gornicza 141,000 , five in Jastrzebie 99,000 , and just...Zory, 19,800 in Jastrzebie, 6,400-8,300 in Dabrowa Gornicza, Sosnowiec, Ruda Slaska, and Bytom, to 1,700...
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Indicator-Based Assessment of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects in the Industrial Cities of Upper Silesia, Poland
Journal article by Eleonora Wcislo, Tadeusz Dutkiewicz, Jerzy Konczalik; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 110, 2002
Subjects: World Health Organization
...Katowice, Bytom, Chorzow, Dabrowa Gornicza, Gliwice, Ruda Slaska, Sosnowiec...Chorzow, Bytom, Katowice, Dabrowa Gornicza, Ruda Slaska, Zabrze, and...cities of Ruda Slaska, Tychy, Dabrowa Gornicza, Jastrzebie Zdroj, and Gliwice...
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Civil Society and Social Capital in Upper Silesia, a Region on Its Way to the European Union (1)
Journal article by Robert Geisler; East European Quarterly, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Citizenship--Analysis, Civil society--Analysis, Poland--Social aspects
...Biata Province, as well as the Dabrowa Basin, and the Czech part of Upper...Czestochowa 36 36 381 441 >Dabrowa Gornicza 13 13 98 121 >Gliwice 23...followed by Podbeskidzie, Dabrowa Basin and Czestochowa. The activity...
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Urinary 1-Hydroxypyrene as a Biomarker of PAH Exposure in 3-Year-Old Ukrainian Children
Journal article by Amy Pelka Mucha, Daniel Hryhorczuk, Andrij Serdyuk, Joseph Nakonechny, Alexander Zvinchuk, Serap Erdal, Motria Caudill, Peter Scheff, Elena Lukyanova, Zoreslava Shkiryak-Nyzhnyk, Natalia Chislovska; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
Subjects: Children
...Siwinska et al. 1999) Bytom (urban industrialized) 78 Dabrowa Gornicza (industrialized) 72 Pilica (rural commune) Sex not...Siwinska et al. 1999) creatinine): Bytom, 0.47 Dabrowa Gomicza, 0.23 Pilica, 0.38 <br/ One area of...


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Drug Cops in Dopey Fire Plan; Bizarre Stories from around the World: Pounds 23M HASH HAUL TORCHED
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), April 4, 2010
Subjects: Hashish--Planning
...a bureaucratic nightmare after her pension company refused to believe she wasnt dead. Aneta Glowania, 40, from Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, was told she had to prove she was still alive. She said: "This is insane." Blue period A TEAM of...


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encyclopedia articles on: DAbrowa GOrnicza  - 2 results

 
 
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DĄbrowa GÓrnicza
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DABROWA GORNICZA doNbro va gorne cha, Ger. Dombrowa, city (1993 est. pop. 139...Coal mining and steel production are the chief economic activities. Dabrowa Gornicza passed to Prussia in 1795 and to Russia in 1815. During the 19th...
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Dombrowa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DOMBROWA See Dabrowa Gornicza , Poland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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