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History of Bielsko-Biała

The town was first documented in 1312 when a Duke of Cieszyn granted a town charter.


1981 general strike in Bielsko-Biała

Also, there were cases of tax evasion, bribery and partisan distribution of ration stamps to purchase passenger vehicles (stamps to purchase the coveted Fiat 126, manufactured at Bielsko-Biała’s Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych, almost exclusively were handed to Party officials.

Aleksander Jagiełło

Aleksander Jagiełło (born 2 February 1995 in Warsaw) is a Polish footballer who plays as a left winger for Podbeskidzie in the Ekstraklasa.

Apolinary Hartglas

In 1919 he was elected by constituents of Biała Podlaska as a deputy to the first Sejm of the newly independent Polish state which was charged with writing a new constitution.

Biała, Pajęczno County

The village has a wooden parish church dating from the second half of the sixteenth century, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.

His birth-house was depicted by Napoleon Orda in his „Album widoków historycznych Polski” (Album of Polish Historical Landscapes) as drawing number 28.

Bielsko-Biała

From 1560 Bielsko was held by Frederick Casimir of Cieszyn, son of Duke Wenceslaus III Adam, who due to the enormous debts his son left upon his death in 1571, had to sell it to the Promnitz noble family at Pless.

Dariusz Libionka

Dariusz Libionka born in 1963 in Bielsko-Biała is a Polish historian focused on the status of Jewish citizens in the Polish Republic, matters of Judaism and the Polish-Jewish relations.

Duchy of Opole and Racibórz

Mieszko's son Casimir I of Opole, Duke from 1211, invited German settlers immigrating to his duchy in the course of the Ostsiedlung, and granted German town law to settlements like Leśnica, Ujazd, Gościęcin, Biała and Olesno.

Jacek Lech

Jacek Lech (born Leszek Zerhau on 15 April 1947 in Bielsko-Biała, d. 25 March 2007 in Katowice) was a popular Polish singer.

Jakub Wejher

He founded the town of Wejherowo and in it, the Kalwaria Wejherowska chapel complex (fulfilling an oath he took when he nearly died during the Smolensk War at Biała in 1634).

JTD engine

A small 1.3 L (1,248 cc) version (called the SDE, Small Diesel Engine) is produced in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and in Ranjangaon, Pune, India by Fiat India Auto.

Marcin Bielski

He was born of noble parentage on the patrimonial estate of Biała, Pajęczno County (whence the family name), in the Polish province of Sieradz.

Mościce

Located to the west of the city centre at the Biała river, it houses one of the largest and the first nitrate factory in Europe.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Polish Theater in Vilnius

It is also the regular participant of many amateur theater festivals in Lithuania (Vilniaus rampa, Juoko sūkurys, Atspindžiai) and in Poland (in Kraków, Bielsko-Biała, Rzeszów, Tychy, Głogów, Bełżyce).

Powiat bielski

Bielsko County, in Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland), the county seat being Bielsko-Biała

SANET

International connectivity is provided through cross-border dark fibres at 10 Gbit/s to the ACOnet node in Vienna, the CESNET node in Brno and the PIONIER node in Bielsko-Biała, as well as local links in Bratislava to the points of presence of GÉANT (1 Gbit/s) and of GTS (2Gbit/s).

Trzepowo

Nowe Trzepowo, a village in Gmina Stara Biała district, Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Workshop for All Beings

The organization conducted projects on preservation of the Wapienica Valley in Bielsko-Biała, they protested against building a coke plant just by the Polish border in Stonava in the Czech Republic, against building of a nuclear power plant in Żarnowiec as well as against deforestation of Bielsko-Biała.


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