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12 unusual facts about Kielce


1. FC Kattowitz

They went on to the promotion round playoffs against the winners of the Kraków league (Podgorze Kraków) and Kielce league (Warta Zawiercie).

Anti Dread

After a few concerts Błażej decided to leave the band and move to Kielce and was replaced with Dydas, guitarist of another punk rock band from Szczecin - Włochaty.

Barbara Frum

Frum’s father, who was born in Kielce, Poland and emigrated to Canada as a child with his parents in 1913, was the proprietor of Rosberg’s Department Store in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Dagmara Dominczyk

Dominczyk was born in Kielce, the daughter of Miroslaw Dominczyk, a leader in the Polish Solidarity movement.

Dzików, Tarnobrzeg

This came to Church officials, and on November 11, 1675 in Kielce, Bishop of Kraków Andrzej Trzebicki recognized the painting as miraculous.

Elkie Brooks

Her paternal grandparents and great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants who were from Kielce, Russian Poland.

Konspiracyjne Wojsko Polskie

It was most active in the Łódź Voivodeship, but also in the neighboring provinces of northern Upper Silesia, eastern Poznań and western Kielce.

Krzysztof Klicki

Between the years 2002 - 2008, Klicki was a part-owner of Korona Kielce football club.

He started Kolporter started after the free market transformation in Poland, selling newspapers - in particular Gazeta Wyborcza - which he collected from Warsaw overnight and sold in Kielce the next day (the name Kolporter means "distributor" in Polish).

Łukasz Jamróz

Łukasz Jamróz (born 18 February 1990) is a Polish footballer who plays as a striker for Arka Gdynia on loan from Korona Kielce.

Marika Dominczyk

Dominczyk moved with her family from Kielce, Poland, to New York City when she was three, after her parents were expelled from their native Poland for her father's involvement with Amnesty International and then the Solidarity movement.

Polish Radio Kielce

Polish Radio Kielce (Polskie Radio Kielce) - is the regional broadcaster based in Kielce.


Bednarek

Robert Bednarek (born 1979), Polish footballer currently playing for Korona Kielce

Jakub Molęda

He graduated from vocalist studies at University of Music in Katowice and musical education na Świętokrzyska Academy in Kielce.

Kostomłoty

Kostomłoty Pierwsze, administrative in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Kostomłoty Drugie, a village in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Marek Gazdzicki

Since 2003, he holds a professorship at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland, and works as researcher and outside lecturer at the University of Frankfurt/Main.

Miechów

In 1885 Miechów received a rail connection with Dąbrowa Górnicza and Kielce, due to a station at a nearby village of Charsznica.

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.

Przemysław Gosiewski

He was elected to Sejm in 2001 and reelected on September 25, 2005, receiving 31,253 votes in 33 Kielce district as a candidate on the Law and Justice list.

Rewolucyjni Mściciele

The group expanded from Łódź to many other towns in the Russian partition of Poland: Warsaw, Częstochowa, Kraków, Radom, Kielce, Sosnowiec, Będzin, Ostrów, Kalisz, Żyrardów and Zgierz.

Secret Polish Army

Tajna Armia Polska, TAP (Secret Polish Army) was a Resistance movement founded in November 1939 in German-occupied Poland, which was active in the areas of the Warsaw, Podlasie, Kielce and Lublin Voivodships.

Sejny Priest Seminary

Later, when seminaries in Tykocin (1863) and Kielce (1893) were closed and merged, the Sejny Seminary grew to 60–80 students.

Sergiusz Piasecki

Finally, Piasecki was transferred to the hardest prison in Poland, located in Łysa Góra near Kielce.

Szabla wz. 34

Unlike the earlier models, the new sabre was being produced by a single factory, the Kielce-based Huta Ludwików (hence the name ludwikówka often applied to the wz.34).

Vis pistol

However, underground production of Vis barrels was started in Warsaw and Kielce-based Huta Ludwików, and several hundred Vis pistols were assembled of parts smuggled from the factory, delivered to the Home Army and used extensively during the Warsaw Uprising, among others.