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Architectural Building Attractions In Katowice

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Katowice is a city in southern Poland, with a population of 297,197 as of 2017 and the center of the Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2.2 million. Throughout the mid-18th century, Katowice had developed into a village upon the discovery of rich coal reserves in the area. In 1742 the First Silesian War transferred Upper Silesia, including Katowice, to Prussia. Subsequently, from the second half of the 18th century, many German or Prussian craftsmen, merchants and artists began to settle in the region, which had been inhabited mostly by Poles over the past hundreds of years. Simultaneously Silesia experienced the influx of the first Jewish settl...
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  • 1. Silesian Theatre Katowice
    Silesian or Upper Silesian is a West Slavic lect, part of its Lechitic group. Its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by Central German due to the existence of numerous Silesian German speakers in the area prior to World War II and after, until the 1990s.There is no consensus on whether Silesian is a separate language or a somewhat divergent dialect of Polish.
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  • 2. Silesian Parliament Katowice
    Silesian Parliament or Silesian Sejm was the governing body of the Silesian Voivodeship , an autonomous voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic between 1920 and 1945. It was elected in democratic elections and had certain influence over the usage of taxes collected in Silesia. It consisted of 48 deputies .
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  • 3. Silesian Library Katowice
    The Silesian Institute in Katowice was a regional scientific organization collecting local information about Polish region of Silesia, working in Katowice in years 1934–1939 and 1945–1949, and during the Nazi occupation of Poland, during World War II as an underground movement in Warsaw, Kraków and Lviv. In years 1945–1948 the Silesian Institute founded its branches in Wrocław and Kłodzko and also the J.Badtkie Library in Cieplice Śląskie . During the reorganization in 1948 the Silesian Institute became part of the Western Institute in Poznań. The works and tradition of the Silesian institute is continued by the Silesian Institute in Opole established in 1957 and the Silesian Scientific Institute in Katowice established 1958.
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