GLIWICE

glĭvēˈtsĕ, Ger. Gleiwitz, city (1993 est. pop. 216,000), Śląskie prov., SW Poland. A coal-mining and steel-making center of the Katowice region, it also produces machinery and chemicals. Its busy port on the Gliwice Canal gives it access to the Baltic Sea via the Oder River. Chartered in 1276, Gliwice was ceded by Austria to Prussia in 1742 and returned to Poland after World War II.

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books on: Gliwice  - 56 results

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1.
For Hunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems
Book by Mustafa Koc, Rod Macrae, Luc J. A. Mougeot, Jennifer Welsh; International Development Research Centre, 1999
Subjects: Food Supply--Congresses, Food Supply--Developing Countries--Congresses, Nutrition Policy--Congresses, Sustainable Agriculture--Congresses, Urban Health--Congresses
...Integrating local and nonlocal solutions Gliwice is an independent municipality within...industrial megalopolis in Upper Silesia. The Gliwice chapter of the national Polish Ecological Club (PEC-Gliwice) formally began its Tested Food for Silesia...
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Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945
Book by George J. Lerski; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Poland--History--Dictionaries
...resistance. Arrested by the Gestapo, * he committed suicide. PSB , VIII, 74-75. GLIWICE Gleiwitz , one of the seven large industrial towns of Upper Silesia. * Gliwice, an old settlement, received its city rights in 1276 and belonged to
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Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians
Book by Shulamith Shahar, Yael Lotan; Boydell Press, 2001
Subjects: Waldenses, Women In Christianity--France, Southern--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
...1399 and attributed to the Inquisitor of Silesia Giovanni di Gliwice, attacks the deviations and errors of The Poor of Lyons and...del 1399 attribubile allinquisitore della Slesia Giovanni di Gliwice, in I Valdesi e lEuropa . Collana della societa di studi Valdesi...
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The Human Geography of East Central Europe
Book by David Turnock; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Human Geography--Europe, Central, Human Geography--Europe, Eastern, Post-Communism--Europe, Central, Post-Communism--Europe, Eastern
...Peugeot deal while displacing General Motors to a new factory in Gliwice (1998) where the new Agila is being made for export to Europe...Isuzu diesel engine plant, initially for supply to Opel in Gliwice but eventually General Motors plants throughout the EU as well...
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Global Strategies and Local Realities: The Auto Industry in Emerging Markets
Book by John Humphrey, Yveline Lecler, Mario Sergio Salerno; Macmillan, 2000
Subjects: Automobile Industry And Trade
...investing DM530 million in a greenfield, integrated car plant at Gliwice, near Katowice, to manufacture 72 000 Astra Classic cars...version, called the Agila, would both increase capacity at Gliwice to 150 000 units a year and raise employment to 3000 workers...
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journal articles on: Gliwice  - 10 results

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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
...Bytom, Chorzow, Dabrowa Gornicza, Gliwice, Ruda Slaska, Sosnowiec, Zabrze, Jastrzebie...high environmental hazards (index 3). Gliwice, Jastrzebie Zdroj, Tychy, and Rybnik...Dabrowa Gornicza, Jastrzebie Zdroj, and Gliwice, the environmental-related health status...
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Reverse Diffusion of Quality: Evidence from General Motors UK and Poland*
Journal article by Dorota Dobosz-Bourne; Journal for East European Management Studies, Vol. 11, 2006
Subjects: Automobile industry, Foreign subsidiaries, General Motors Poland, Globalization, Knowledge management, Poland, Product quality, Studies, United Kingdom
...Ellesmere Port, and Opel Polska plant in Gliwice, Poland. The study consisted of the...listen to the opinion of the Polish ISP. "Gliwice is not a good example for describing the...go crazy. The approach implemented in Gliwice is like in Chinese communism, and there...
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Integration of Government Services Using Semantic Technologies
Journal article by Ján Hreno, Peter Bednár, Karol Furdík, Tomás Sabol; Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 6, 2011
Subjects: Electronic government, Integration, Interoperability, Semantics, Studies
...Silesian region and was performed by the Gliwice City Hall (GCH). The user scenario...information on service providers in the Gliwice area was collected. Using the requirement...the underlying conceptual model. The Gliwice City Hall is an institution of first contact...
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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
...Czestochowa 36 36 381 441 >Dabrowa Gornicza 13 13 98 121 >Gliwice 23 23 180 200 >Jastrzebie-Zdroj 4 4 84 94 >Jaworzno...of Katowice, Czestochowa, Bielsko, Rybnik, Sosnowiec and Gliwice. The districts of Cieszyn and Bielsko belonged to Podbeskidzie...
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Polish Landscape with Synagogues
Journal article by Eleonora Bergman; Shofar, Vol. 29, 2011
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Colonies & territories, Jewish law, Prayer, Religion, Synagogues, World War II
...the names of architects of synagogues in the lands that were included in Poland in 1945: Salomon Lubowski, town architect (Gliwice, 1861), Edwin Oppler from Hannover (Wroclaw 1872; Swidnica 1877); Wilhelm Ende and Max Bockmann from Berlin (Szczecin...
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magazine articles on: Gliwice  - 5 results

 
 
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Disinvited by the Holocaust Museum, Writer Speaks at National Press Club
Magazine article by Richard H; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVI, July 31, 1997
Subjects: Crime, Germany, History, Holocaust, International, Literature, Nonfiction, Potak, Lola, Sack, John, Washington, DC
...as the commander of a camp for German prisoners operated at Gliwice, Poland. It was one of 1,255 such camps established as...in the camps. Of 50 babies in one camp, 48 died. "From Gliwice we moved westward to Breslau and from there to Prague," another...
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Itc News
Magazine article; International Trade Forum, 1994
Subjects: Conferences, International markets, International trade, Manycompanies, Manycountries
...ASAA) participated as a lecturer in two workshops organized by the Polish Association for Logistics and Purchasing, in Gliwice and Warsaw in September. Republic of Moldova: The UNDP Resident Representative in the country visited ITC in August to discuss...
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Letter from Poland
Magazine article by David Ost; The Nation, Vol. 275, November 25, 2002
Subjects: Brecht, Bertolt--Authorship, Capitalism--Public opinion, Happy End (Play)--Political aspects, Labor movement--Analysis, Lepper, Andrzej--Evaluation, Poland--Economic aspects, Poland--Political aspects, Poland--Social aspects, Self defense (Personal safety)--Evaluation, Self defense (Personal safety)--Officials and employees, Self-Defense--Evaluation, Self-Defense--Officials and employees, Unemployment--Analysis, Unemployment--Statistics
...unions has been crucial. Stanislaw Ciepiera, Solidarity leader at General Motors Opel plant in the depressed mining city of Gliwice, formed the local union there, thanks to contacts with a Polish Jesuit monk who had once worked at a German Opel plant and...
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Gender, Utilitarianism & Poland: 100 Years of Women and Urban Agriculture
Magazine article by Anne Camilla Bellows; WE International, Spring 1998
Subjects: Agriculture, Eastern Europe, Gardens & gardening, History, International, Poland, Sexes, Urban agriculture, Women
...government autonomy, economic development, and administrative aspects of decentralization. A very special group in Silesia, the Gliwice Chapter of the Polish Ecological Club, comprised mostly of women, have organized to document and publicize their regional...
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The Language of Redemption: The Catholic Poets Adam Zagajewski, Marie Ponsot & Lawrence Joseph
Magazine article by Andrew Krivak; Commonweal, Vol. 130, May 9, 2003
...that his family left the beautiful city of Lvov, Ukraine, when Zagajewski was four months old for the industrial town of Gliwice, Poland), to a humorous assessment of the nihilism of altar boys. Recently, his prose work, Another Beauty, documents...


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newspaper articles on: Gliwice  - 21 results

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Young Masters Excel at the Bar; Taste OF THE NORTH EAST. Beer
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 2, 2007
Subjects: Breweries, Brewing industry, Pilsner Urquell
...ALASTAIR GILMOUR SECOND PLACE: Hanna Michalczyk from Hemingway in Gliwice, Poland, came second in the Master Bartender competition...enforced drinking age in the US is 21. Hanna Michalczyk from Gliwice in Poland went one better, taking second spot - and she too...
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Fancy Dan Glenn Forced to Get His Hands Dirty as a Scrap Merchant!
Newspaper article by Roy Collins; The People (London, England), June 1, 1997
...in France. In the splendid isolation of the Lesny Hotel in Gliwice, where eerily, Englands team were the only guests, reality...people pressed against the windows of the old town hall in Gliwice to get a glimpse of them. Hoddle came here determined to get...
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Extra Vauxhall Shifts as Demand Increases
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 13, 2011
Subjects: Automobile industry, General Motors Co., Vauxhall Motors Ltd.
...in Ellesmere Port, meeting demand for the whole continent. The group also said more shifts are being offered to staff in Gliwice, Poland, and said they will increase production at its plant in Rsselsheim, Germany. online READ David Bartlett at blogs...
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Summer Starts with Suzuki's Hot New Deals
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 9, 2005
...specification and to launch the three-door derivative of the all-new Swift. Meanwhile, Wagon R+ production has been switched to the Gliwice plant in Poland and the opportunity taken to provide it with an economical 1.2-litre engine.
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MOTOR NEWS: Updated Look for Suzuki Models
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), June 16, 2005
...specification and launch the three door derivative of the all-new Swift. Meanwhile, Wagon R+ production has been switched to the Gliwice plant in Poland and the opportunity taken to provide it with a new economical 1.2 litre engine. The Ignis 1.3 GL five...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gliwice  - 4 results

 
 
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Gliwice
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GLIWICE glive tse, Ger. Gleiwitz, city (1993...machinery and chemicals. Its busy port on the Gliwice Canal gives it access to the Baltic Sea via the Oder River. Chartered in 1276, Gliwice was ceded by Austria to Prussia in 1742...
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Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the capital and important ports, the countrys major cities include Bialystok , Bydgoszcz , Bytom , Czestochowa , Gdansk , Gliwice , Katowice , Krakow , Lodz , Lublin , Poznan , Radom , Tarnowskie Gory , and Wroclaw . As a result of World War II, of the...
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Gleiwitz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GLEIWITZ see Gliwice , Poland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Silesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...deposits and zinc, lead, iron, and other ores. The industrial area around Katowice comprises such important centers as Bytom , Gliwice , Zabrze , and Czestochowa , and has iron and steel mills, coke ovens, and chemical plants. Opole , the former capital of...


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