KATOWICE

kätôvēˈtsĕ, Ger. Kattowitz, city (1993 est. pop. 366,200), capital of Śląskie prov., S Poland. One of the chief mining and industrial centers of Poland, it has industries producing heavy machinery and chemicals; mines in the region yield coal, iron, zinc, and lead. The city was chartered in 1865 and passed from Germany to Poland in 1921. Katowice is also an important educational and cultural center.

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books on: Katowice  - 369 results

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Gorecki
Book by Adrian Thomas; Oxford University, 1997
Subjects: Gorecki, Henryk Mikoaj--1933---Criticism and interpretation
Premiere: 27 February 1958, Katowice: Edward Cygan and Henryk Gruszka...Date of composition: March 1957, Katowice Unpublished currently grouped with...composition: March-April 1957, Katowice Premiere: 25 May 1957, Teatr Slaski...
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Democracy in a Communist Party: Poland's Experience since 1980
Book by Werner G. Hahn; Columbia University Press, 1987
Subjects: Poland--Politics And Government--1980-1989, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza
...The July 15 Gazeta Krakowska identified Katowice delegate Roman Grebosz as a member of...July 27 Gazeta Lubuska reported that the Katowice delegation included four forum members. After a Katowice Forum member made a speech to the congress...
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Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
...California, 1983. See also Polish Literature Katowice Industrial and administrative center...capital city of the province (voivod) of Katowice, in southwestern Poland. The densely...just under four million. The city of Katowice is situated 40 miles (64 km) west of...
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Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945
Book by George J. Lerski; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Poland--History--Dictionaries
...Dialects of Polish The Hague, 1974 . KATOWICE Kattowitz , industrial city and major...located on the coalfields of this region. Katowice was mentioned in a written document for...operation. In the 1840s and 1850s, Katowice received a railway connection with Wroclaw...
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Green Post-Communism? Environmental Aid, Polish Innovation, and Evolutionary Political Economics
Book by Mikael Sandberg; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Environmental Policy--Europe, Central, Environmental Policy--Europe, Eastern, Environmental Policy--Poland, Green Movement--Europe, Central, Green Movement--Europe, Eastern, Green Movement--Poland, Technological Innovations--Environmental Aspects
...industrial solid waste management in the Katowice steel mill, waste minimisation in ZCHO...in the Silesia Metallurgical works in Katowice, in meat processing in Elblag and Lukow...Torun, in Organika-Azot in Jaworzno-Katowice, in the Boryszew polymer plant in Sochaszew...
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journal articles on: Katowice  - 55 results

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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
...many people from all regions came to the Katowice Voivodship and started a new life. The...Great Silesia" was meant to embrace the Katowice, Czestochowa, and Opole areas of Upper...province included the former Czestochowa, Katowice, and Bielsko-Biata provinces, together...
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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
...priorities. These cities included Chorzow, Katowice, Sosnowieco Bytom, and Zabrze. We...000 people were chosen. They included Katowice, Bytom, Chorzow, Dabrowa Gornicza...highly contaminated areas (region A): Katowice, Bytom, Chorzow, Ruda Slaska, Sosnowiec...
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Film Studies in Post-war Poland: Tradition and Innovation
Journal article by Alicja Helman, Waclaw M. Osadnik; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 39, 1997
Subjects: Critics, Eastern Europe, History, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture industry, Poland, Study & teaching
...centre for cinema studies emerged in Katowice, Upper Silesia. Scholars from the Silesian...Semiotyka Filmu (Semiotics of Film, Katowice, 1980). The article served as the...Semiotic Analysis of the Film work of Art, Katowice, 1984), is the elaboration of a number...
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The Upper Silesians' Stereotypical Perception of the Poles and the Germans
Journal article by Tomasz Kamusella; East European Quarterly, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Ethnic relations--Evaluation, Nationalism--Evaluation, Silesia--History
...is, Opole (Oppeln) Silesia and the Katowice (Kattowitz) region.(6) I do not...Silesiandom whereas their fellowmen of the Katowice (Kattowitz) region stress their attachment...26) which came into being in the Katowice (Kattowitz) region, also met similar...
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The Solidarity Revolution in Poland, 1980-1981
Journal article by Jack M. Bloom; The Oral History Review, Vol. 33, 2006
Subjects: Labor unions--Demonstrations and protests, Labor unions--Poland, Poland--History, Poland--Political aspects, Revolutions--History, Revolutions--Political aspects, Solidarity--Analysis
...my time between the major city there, Katowice, and the coal mining region of Jastrzebie...1980, he recalled: As I was going from Katowice to Gdansk for the unveiling of the December...1998) Leader of Solidarity in the Katowice Steel Mill and in the Katowice region...
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magazine articles on: Katowice  - 21 results

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Poland: Export Prospects for Developing Countries
Magazine article by Friedrich Von Kirchbach; International Trade Forum, 1995
Subjects: Economic conditions, Economic statistics, Emerging markets, Imports, International trade, LDCs, Manyproducts, Market strategy, Poland
...Other important sites are Gdansk, Katowice, Lodz and Warsaw. Firms in developing...Power Production and Metallurgy Fair, Katowice "Polagra," International Agricultural...Softarg," International Software Fair, Katowice "Housebuilding," International Housing...
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Entering Bruegel's World
Magazine article by Patricia Thomson; American Cinematographer, Vol. 92, June 2011
...actors, who were filmed in a bluescreen environment onstage in Katowice. "Al the technicians were very unhappy that we couldnt use...which recorded onto 8GB Compact Flash cards. 24Media in Katowice supplied the camera package, which included a 24mm Zeiss Super...
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Noteworthy
Magazine article; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 33, October 2009
...universities and seminaries of Poland, including members from Katowice, Warsaw, Krakow, Lublin, Poznan, Opole, and Olsztyn. With leadership from president Jan Gorski (Katowice) and vice president Wojciech Kluj, O.M.I. (Warsaw...
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Infrastructure: News Briefs
Magazine article; Presidents & Prime Ministers, Vol. 7, July 1998
Subjects: Bhutan--Economic aspects, Railroads--Europe, Sri Lanka--Economic aspects, Steam power-plants--Sri Lanka, Urbanization--Environmental aspects
...of the A4 motorway between Sosnica and Murckowska, in the Katowice region of southern Poland. The project is part of the high priority Trans-European motorway Berlin-Dresden-Wroclaw-Katowice-Krakow-Rzeszow-Kiev, whereas ECU $130 million (US...
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Arthur Zalewski and Eiko Grimberg; Artrepco
Magazine article by Valerie Knoll; Artforum International, Vol. 47, December 2008
Subjects: Artistic photography--Exhibitions, Grimberg, Eiko--Exhibitions, Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions, Video art--Exhibitions, Zalewski, Arthur--Exhibitions
...hand in creating. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Zalewskis video work Katowice (all works 2008), projected against a backdrop that hints...and interior views of the heavily frequented train station in Katowice, Poland, which was built in the 1970s by an architect who...
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newspaper articles on: Katowice  - 342 results

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High Flyers Wizz in from Katowice; POLISH LINK: First Arrivals Delighted to Be in Coventry
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 14, 2007
High Flyers Wizz in from Katowice; POLISH LINK: First Arrivals Delighted...step off the inaugural flight from Katowice. She was accompanied by her children...from here more often." FACT FILE Katowice is a gateway to the Silesian Mountains...
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High Flyers Wizz in from Katowice; POLISH LINK: First Arrivals Delighted to Be Here in Coventry - While Others Are Keen to Get Away
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 14, 2007
High Flyers Wizz in from Katowice; POLISH LINK: First Arrivals Delighted...step off the inaugural flight from Katowice. She was accompanied by her children...from here more often." FACT FILE Katowice is a gateway to the Silesian Mountains...
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Football: VICTORY AT THE POLES; TRIUMPH IN KATOWICE: Poland 1 England 2, World Cup Qual Group 6 Actions Speak Louder Than Any Words for Sven's Band of Brothers
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 9, 2004
Subjects: Beckham, David
Football: VICTORY AT THE POLES; TRIUMPH IN KATOWICE: Poland 1 England 2, World Cup Qual Group 6 Actions Speak...England had failed to hold onto a lead and the ghosts of the Katowice past, the night that began the end for Bobby Moore and Sir...
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Football: POLISH UP OUR ACT OR PERISH; Becks Says Only Katowice Win Can Save England
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 6, 2004
Subjects: Beckham, David
Football: POLISH UP OUR ACT OR PERISH; Becks Says Only Katowice Win Can Save England. Byline: John CROSS DAVID BECKHAM last...guranteed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany so defeat in Katowice on Wednesday doesnt bear thinking about, according to Beckham...
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Football: ONE MORE GAFFE AND YOU'RE OUT; POLAND V ENGLAND: KATOWICE, TOMORROW, 7.30PM Boss Warns James in Private Meeting
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 7, 2004
Football: ONE MORE GAFFE AND YOURE OUT; POLAND V ENGLAND: KATOWICE, TOMORROW, 7.30PM Boss Warns James in Private Meeting. Byline: JOHN CROSS in Katowice DAVID JAMES has been told he is just one more mistake away from the England...
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encyclopedia articles on: Katowice  - 14 results

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Katowice
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KATOWICE katove tse, Ger. Kattowitz, city (1993 est. pop. 366,200), capital...The city was chartered in 1865 and passed from Germany to Poland in 1921. Katowice is also an important educational and cultural center...
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Silesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lead, iron, and other ores. The industrial area around Katowice comprises such important centers as Bytom , Gliwice , Zabrze...territory; the larger part of the industrial district, including Katowice, passed to Poland. The contested city and district of Teschen...
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Kattowitz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KATTOWITZ see Katowice , Poland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Gliwice
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Gleiwitz, city (1993 est. pop. 216,000), Slaskie 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...
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Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 1945 boundary...
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