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Gliwice (glĭvē`tsĕ), 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. Gliwice an industrial city in S Poland. Pop.: 212 164 (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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An interesting innovation at Krakow is its SkyShuttle bus service, connecting Krakow Balice airport directly with key cities in the region, such as Katowice and Gliwice. Though he is rarely identified as Catholic, his autobiographical essay "Two Cities" is prefaced by anecdotes from a Catholic boyhood, with everything from a sense of homelessness (due to the fact 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. Polgaz Gliwice fills cylinders with oxygen, freon, argon, carbon dioxide and gas mixtures. |
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