Bielsko-Biała

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Bielsko-Biała (pronounce: [[Media:Bielsko-Biala.ogg|]) is a city in southern Poland with 180,307 inhabitants (1999).

Situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Bielsko-Biała Voivodship (1975-1998).

Contents

1 Education
2 Politics

2.1 Bielsko-Biała constituency

3 History

3.1 Municipal politics

4 Famous people from Bielsko-Biała
5 Sports
6 Sister cities
7 See also
8 External links

Education

Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna
Bielska Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu i Informatyki im. J. Tyszkiewicza
Wyższa Szkoła Administracji
Wyższa Szkoła Bankowości i Finansów
Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania
Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna

Politics

Bielsko-Biała constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Bielsko-Biała constituency

Falfus Jacek, PiS
Kobielusz Antoni, SLD-UP
Płonka Edward, PO
Smolana Piotr, Samoobrona
Sztwiertnia Jan, SLD-UP
Szwarc Jan, SLD-UP
Tomczykiewicz Tomasz, PO
Zadora Stanisław, LPR
Zarzycki Kazimierz, SLD-UP

History

The city of Bielsko-Biała was created on January 1 1951 when the adjacent cities of Bielsko and Biała were unified. Bielsko, which for centuries belonged to the Duchy of Cieszyn, was founded in 1312. From 1457 the Biała river was the border between Silesia and Little Poland. Silesia belonged to Austria, Little Poland to Poland. In 1723 on the opposite bank of the river the city of Biała came into being. In 1772 Biała was annexed by Austria and included in the crownland of Galicia. In 1918 both cities became part of reborn [[Poland], though a significant part of the population was ethnic German. During World War II the city was annexed to the Third Reich and its Jewish population sent to Auschwitz. After the liberation of the city by the Red Army in 1945, the ethnic German population was expelled.

Famous people from Bielsko-Biała

Shlomo Avineri:
Born Bielsko 1933, in Israel since 1939. Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Recipient of Israel Prize (1996).
Maurice Bloomfield & Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
Jan Klemens Branicki
Heinrich Conried
Roman Frister
Hellmuth Karasek
Franciszek Cardinal Macharski
Roman Polko
Zbigniew Preisner
Arthur Schnabel, Jewish pianist, born on Lipnik near Bielitz
Grażyna Staniszewska
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Sabina Wojtala
Albert Schickedanz, Hungarian Saxon architect
Sigmund Zeisler, Jewish jurist

Sports

Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała - men's football team (2nd league 2004/2005).
BBTS Siatkarz Original Bielsko-Biała - men's volleyball team playing in Polish Volleyball League (Polska Liga Siatkówki, PLS: Seria A in 2003/2004, Seria B in 2004/2005 season).
BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała - women's volleyball team:Polish Champion 2004, playing in Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League.

Sister cities

Bielsko-Biała has city partnerships with the following cities:

External links

	Silesian Voivodship
Cities: Bielsko-Biała \| Bytom \| Chorzów \| Częstochowa \| Dąbrowa Górnicza \| Gliwice \| Jastrzębie Zdrój \| Jaworzno \| Katowice \| Mysłowice \| Piekary Śląskie \| Ruda Śląska \| Rybnik \| Siemianowice Śląskie \| Sosnowiec \| Świętochłowice \| Tychy \| Zabrze \| Żory Powiats: Będzin \| Bielsko-Biała \| Bieruń-Lędziny \| Cieszyn \| Częstochowa \| Gliwice \| Kłobuck \| Lubliniec \| Mikołów \| Myszków \| Pszczyna \| Raciborz \| Rybnik \| Tarnowskie Góry \| Wodzisław Śląski \| Zawiercie \| Żywiec

Silesian Voivodship

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