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Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz; Tarnowske Gōry) is a town in Silesia, southern Poland, located in the Silesian Highlands near Katowice.^[1]

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Adit

An adit (from Latin aditus, entrance) or stulm is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine.

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Agricultural expansion

Agricultural expansion describes the growth of agricultural land (arable land, pastures, etc.) especially in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I (–), nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first king of Congress Poland from 1815, and the grand duke of Finland from 1809 to his death in 1825.

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Alexander Kohut

Alexander (Chanoch Yehuda) Kohut (April 22, 1842 – May 25, 1894) was a rabbi and orientalist.

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Aragonite

Aragonite is a carbonate mineral and one of the three most common naturally occurring crystal forms of calcium carbonate, the others being calcite and vaterite.

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Arianism

Arianism (Ἀρειανισμός) is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity.

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Augustus II the Strong

Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733.

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Augustus III (August III Sas, Augustas III; 17 October 1696 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (Friedrich August II).

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Świerklaniec

Świerklaniec is a village in Tarnowskie Góry County, in the Silesian Voivodeship of southwestern Poland.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Battle of Vienna

The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 1683 after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.

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Békéscsaba

Békéscsaba (Békešská Čaba; see also other alternative names) is a city with county rights in southeast Hungary, the capital of Békés County.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bernburg

Bernburg (Saale) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, capital of the Salzlandkreis district.

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Black Trout Adit

Black Trout Adit (Sztolnia Czarnego Pstrąga) is the longest (600 meters) underground tourist route in Poland travelled by boats. Tarnowskie Góry and Black Trout Adit are Tarnowskie Góry County.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Carl Wernicke

Carl (or Karl) Wernicke (15 May 1848 – 15 June 1905) was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.

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Central European Summer Time

Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.

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Central European Time

Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Chorzów

Chorzów (Königshütte; Chorzōw) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Tarnowskie Góry and Chorzów are cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship, Holocaust locations in Poland, Intelligenzaktion massacre locations and Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939).

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Classicism

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.

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Classification yard

A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks.

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Dariusz Świercz

Dariusz Świercz (born 31 May 1994) is a Polish-American chess player playing for the United States.

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DeeJay Delta

Łukasz Żelezny, known as DeeJay Delta (born 23 March 1981 in Tarnowskie Góry, South Poland) is an electronic music artist, and disc jockey, currently living London.

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Duchy of Opole

Duchy of Opole (Księstwo opolskie; Opolské knížectví; Herzogtum Oppeln) was one of the duchies of Silesia ruled by the branch of Polish Piast dynasty, formed during the medieval fragmentation of Poland into provincial duchies.

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Duke of Opole

The following is a list of monarchs who used the title Duke of Opole and controlled the city and the surrounding area either directly or indirectly (see also Duchy of Opole).

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Einsatzgruppen

Einsatzgruppen (also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.

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European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion

The European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion, often shortened as ESPON, is a European funded programme under the objective of "European Territorial Cooperation" of the Cohesion Policy of the European Union.

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Forced labour under German rule during World War II

The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.

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Frederick William II of Prussia

Frederick William II (Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was king of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797.

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Gas lighting

Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.

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George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Georg Friedrich der Ältere; 5 April 1539 in Ansbach – 25 April 1603) was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia.

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George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach (German: Georg; 4 March 1484 – 27 December 1543), known as George the Pious (Georg der Fromme), was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.

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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II

Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945).

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Gmina

The gmina (Polish:, plural gminy) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality.

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Great Plague of Vienna

The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers.

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Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck

Guido Henckel, 1st Prince of Donnersmarck (Guido Georg Friedrich Erdmann Heinrich Adalbert; born 10 August 1830 – 19 December 1916), previously Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, was a German nobleman, industrial magnate, member of the House of Henckel von Donnersmarck and one of the richest men of his time.

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Habsburg monarchy

The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.

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Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry

The Historic Silver Mine (Zabytkowa Kopalnia Srebra) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (since 2017) in Tarnowskie Góry, Silesia, Poland. Tarnowskie Góry and Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry are Tarnowskie Góry County.

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Home Army

The Home Army (Armia Krajowa,; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.

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House of Hohenzollern

The House of Hohenzollern (Haus Hohenzollern,; Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania.

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Hussar

A hussar (huszár; husarz; Croatian - husar, Serbian - husar /) was a member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Central Europe (Hungary) during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Institute of National Remembrance

The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecution service components exercising investigative, prosecution and lustration powers.

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Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Iron Curtain

During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

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Jan II the Good

Jan II of Opole (Jan II Dobry) (– 27 March 1532) was a Duke of Opole-Brzeg (until 1481)-Strzelce-Niemodlin in 1476 (with his brothers as co-rulers during 1476), ruler over Gliwice (in 1494), Toszek (in 1495), Niemodlin (again, in 1497), Bytom (in 1498), Koźle (in 1509), and Racibórz (in 1521).

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Jan Miodek

Jan Franciszek Miodek (born 7 June 1946 in Tarnowskie Góry, Silesian Voivodeship), is a Polish linguist, a prescriptive grammarian and a Professor of Wrocław University.

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January Uprising

The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence.

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Józef Wandzik

Józef Wandzik (born 13 August 1963) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.

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John III Sobieski

John III Sobieski (Jan III Sobieski; Jonas III Sobieskis; Ioannes III Sobiscius 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.

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Katowice

Katowice is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. Katowice is a central part of the Metropolis GZM, with a population of 2.3 million, and a part of a larger Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area that extends into the Czech Republic and has a population of around 5 million people, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the European Union. Tarnowskie Góry and Katowice are cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship and Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939).

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Katowice Airport

Katowice Wojciech Korfanty Airport (Katowice Airport im.) is an international airport, located in Pyrzowice, north of Katowice, Poland.

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Katowice Voivodeship

Katowice Voivodeship can refer to one of two political entities in Poland: Katowice Voivodeship (1), initially "Silesian-Dabrowa Voivodeship" (województwo śląsko-dąbrowskie), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the years 1946–1975.

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Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area

The Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan areaBrookings Institution (2016), p. 16.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Klaus Wyrtki

Klaus Wyrtki (February 7, 1925 – February 5, 2013) was an American physical oceanographer.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Tarnowskie Góry and Kraków are Holocaust locations in Poland.

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Krupp

Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp (formerly Friedrich Krupp GmbH), trading as Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century as well as Germany's premier weapons manufacturer during both world wars.

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Kutná Hora

Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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La Païva

Esther Lachmann (better known as La Païva; 7 May 181921 January 1884) was the most famous of the 19th-century French courtesans.

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Lechites

Lechites (Lechiten), also known as the Lechitic tribes (Lechitische Stämme), is a name given to certain West Slavic tribes who inhabited modern-day Poland and eastern Germany, and were speakers of the Lechitic languages.

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List of Historic Monuments (Poland)

Historic Monument (pomnik historii) is one of several categories of objects of cultural heritage (in the singular, zabytek) in Poland.

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Martin Max

Martin Max (born 7 August 1968) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Méricourt, Pas-de-Calais

Méricourt is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Megalopolis

A megalopolis or a supercity, also called a megaregion, is a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, resources, ecology, and so on.

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Metropolis GZM

The Metropolis GZM (Metropolia GZM, formally in Polish Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia) is a metropolitan unit composed of 41 contiguous municipalities in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland.

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Michał Lewek

Michał Lewek (1878–1967) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and activist.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mieszko I

Mieszko I (– 25 May 992) was Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe.

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Moloch

Moloch, Molech, or Molek is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than.

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National Institute of Cultural Heritage

The National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Poland (Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa NID) is a Polish governmental institution responsible for documenting cultural property and the intangible cultural heritage, as well as for supporting and coordinating their protection.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazi war crimes in occupied Poland during World War II

Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, included the genocide of millions of Polish people, especially the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles.

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Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.

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Opole

Opole (Oppeln; Ôpole) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia. Tarnowskie Góry and Opole are Holocaust locations in Poland.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Pharmacy (shop)

A pharmacy (also called drugstore in American English or community pharmacy or chemist in Commonwealth English) is a premises which provides pharmaceutical drugs, among other products.

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Piast dynasty

The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish Land Forces

The Land Forces are the land forces of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Polish resistance movement in World War II

In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army.

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Polish tribes

"Polish tribes" is a term used sometimes to describe the tribes of West Slavic Lechites that lived from around the mid-6th century in the territories that became Polish with the creation of the Polish state by the Piast dynasty.

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Pollutant

A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.

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Powiat

A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (LAU-1) in other countries.

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Privatization

Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Prussian Army

The Royal Prussian Army (1701–1919, Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Racibórz

Racibórz (Ratibor, Ratiboř, Racibōrz) is a city in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. Tarnowskie Góry and Racibórz are cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Robert Wojsyk

Robert Wojsyk (born 11 September 1990 in Tarnowskie Góry) is a Polish footballer who currently plays for Ruch Radzionków in the Polish III Liga.

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Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture.

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Rudolf von Carnall

Rudolf von Carnall (9 February 1804 – 17 November 1874) was a German mining engineer and mineralogist.

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Russian Partition

The Russian Partition (zabór rosyjski), sometimes called Russian Poland, constituted the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that were annexed by the Russian Empire in the course of late-18th-century Partitions of Poland.

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Samuel Ludwik Zasadius

Samuel Ludwik Zasadius or Zasadyus, Sassadius (c. 1695–1756) was a Polish religious writer, pastor and author of popular sermons and prayer-books.

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Sewerage

Sewerage (or sewage system) is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff (stormwater, meltwater, rainwater) using sewers.

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Silesia

Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Silesian Upland

Silesian Upland or Silesian Highland (Wyżyna Śląska) is a highland located in Silesia and Lesser Poland, Poland.

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Silesian Uprisings

The Silesian Uprisings (Powstania śląskie; Aufstände in Oberschlesien, Polenaufstände) were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in Upper Silesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic at the time.

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Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship (województwo śląskie) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital.

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Silesian Wars

The Silesian Wars (Schlesische Kriege) were three wars fought in the mid-18th century between Prussia (under King Frederick the Great) and Habsburg Austria (under Empress Maria Theresa) for control of the Central European region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland).

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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Silver mining

Silver mining is the extraction of silver by mining.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spišský Štvrtok

Spišský Štvrtok (before 1927 "Štvrtok"; Donnersmark, Csütörtökhely, Spiski Czwartek) is a village and municipality in Levoča District in the Prešov Region of central-eastern Slovakia.

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Stalag VIII-B

Stalag VIII-B was most recently a German Army administered POW camp during World War II, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the village of Lamsdorf (now Łambinowice) in Silesia.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Szlachta

The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.

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Tarnowskie Góry County

Tarnowskie Góry County (powiat tarnogórski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

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Third Silesian War

The Third Silesian War was a war between Prussia and Austria (together with its allies) that lasted from 1756 to 1763 and confirmed Prussia's control of the region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland).

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.

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Town privileges

Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.

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Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.

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Tsar

Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.

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Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk; Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; Horní Slezsko;; Silesian German: Oberschläsing; Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located today mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnowskie_Góry

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See also

Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939)

Tarnowskie Góry County

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