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Bytom (bĭ`tôm), Ger. Beuthen, city (1994 est. pop. 232,400), Śląskie prov., SW Poland, in the Katowice mining region. An important heavy industrial center, it has iron- and steelworks and the largest silver foundry in Poland. A Polish king built a fortress on the site in the 11th cent., and by the 12th cent. the lead and zinc mines of the region were being exploited. The city was chartered in 1254, and in the late 13th cent. served briefly as the capital of an independent principality that passed under the rule of Bohemia. The Hapsburgs held the city from 1526 until 1742, when it passed to Prussia. In a plebiscite after World War I a majority of the population voted to join Poland, but Germany held onto the city. It was finally incorporated into Poland in 1945. Bytom has an opera house and museum. Bytom an industrial city in SW Poland, in Upper Silesia: under Prussian and German rule from 1742 to 1945. Pop.: 205 560 (1999 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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1999) Bytom (urban industrialized) 78 Dabrowa Gornicza (industrialized) 72 Pilica (rural commune) Sex not specified One area of Silesia, 30 total (6 days of Poland sampling in the morning) (Siwinska et al. Rybakova o poezdke k kirgizam letom 1896 po porucheniiu Imperatorskogo russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva: chast' pervaia; obshchie nabliudeniia nad sovremennym bytom kirgiz," Zhivaia starina 7 (1897) #2: 208; and A. During the quarter, the company won the tenders and received the licenses to build and operate telecommunications networks in the following cities: Gdask, Gdinia and Sopot (total population of 757,000); Katowice, Gliwice, Bytom, Tychy, Mikolow and Sosnowiec (total population of 1,209,000); Krakow (total population of 741,000); Poznan (total population of 581,000); and, Chelm (total population of 70,000). |
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