TARNOWSKIE GÓRY

tärnôfˈskyĕ gooˈrĭ, town (1993 est. pop. 77,700), Śląskie prov., S Poland. It is an industrial center where metal goods, mining and railway equipment, and cement are produced. Nearby are coal, zinc, and lead mines. Chartered in 1526, the town passed from Germany to Poland after World War I.

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Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945
Book by George J. Lerski; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Poland--History--Dictionaries
...443-441; WEP , XI, 400. TARNOWSKIE GORY, mining town in Upper Silesia...lead were discovered there and Tarnowskie Gory developed rapidly. In 1526...and zinc * metallurgy began in Tarnowskie Gory, where one of the earliest...
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Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe
Book by Petr Pavlínek, John Pickles; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Environmental Policy--Europe, Eastern, Europe, Eastern--Economic Policy--1989-, Post-Communism--Europe, Eastern
...Upper Silesia is the area of Tarnowskie Gory Table 3.7 , particularly around...and all potato samples from the Tarnowskie Gory region contained cadmium...46-1520 1-42 90-9,200 Tarnowskie Gory 26-8,200 1-143 103...
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Class Struggle in Classless Poland
Book by Stanislaw Starski; South End Press, 1982
Subjects: Communism--Poland, Social Conflict--Poland, Working Class--Poland--Political Activity
...was, for instance a delegate from Silesia, from Tarnowskie Gory, who made the following speech: "I do not know...of the Factory of Mechanized Wall Reinforcements in Tarnowskie Gory with a letter of solidarity with the striking Coast...
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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
...population 1.85mn. in 1950) to Zone B (area 1,700sq.km. and population 0.31mn.), with new towns like Tarnowskie Gory/Miasteczko Slaski to the north and Mikolow/Tychy to the south (Szczpanski 1993). Between 1950 and 1975 the...
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German Minorities and the Third Reich: Ethnic Germans of East Central Europe between the Wars
Book by Anthony Komjathy, Rebecca Stockwell; Holmes & Meier, 1980
...was closely connected to the JDP. In November some of the former members, together with members of the Tarnowitz Tarnowskie Gory Wanderbund and a youth group of the German Catholic Union altogether forty-nine youths were charged with conspiracy...
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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
...districts of Cieszyn, Zywiec, Zawiercie, Bielsko and Tarnowskie Gory, and in the towns of Katowice, Czestochowa, Bielsko...similar hypothesis in relation to the district of Tarnowskie Gory, which belonged to the Silesian area for many years...


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Tarnowskie GÓry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARNOWSKIE GORY tarnof skye goo ri, town (1993 est. pop. 77,700), Slaskie prov., S Poland. It is an industrial center where metal goods...
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Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 treaty with the USSR, and of the emigration of...


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