Krosno
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- Not to be confused with Krosno Odrzańskie.
Krosno (in full The Royal Free City of Krosno, Polish: Królewskie Wolne Miasto Krosno) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 48,060 inhabitants as of 2004.
Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Krosno County.
Krosno is located in an oil bearing region. Surface seepage of oil was locally used (unrefined) in lamps as early as the sixteenth century. In the 19th century Ignacy Łukasiewicz a local pharmacist began exploiting the deposits from hand-dug wells, years before the drilling at Titusville, Pennsylvania which is usually said to be the beginning of modern petroleum development.
Education
- Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania in Rzeszów, branch in Krosno
Politics
The Krosno constituency includes several other smaller cities.Krosno/Przemysl constituency
Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Krosno/Przemysl constituency- Domaradzki Wojciech, SLD-UP
- Firak Witold, SLD-UP
- Głowa Józef, Samoobrona
- Kaleniecki Tadeusz, SLD-UP
- Kasprzak Mieczysław, PSL
- Kawa Marian, SLD-UP
- Kędra Ryszard, LPR
- Kuchciński Marek, PiS
- Lis Alicja, Samoobrona
- Łukacijewska Elżbieta, PO
- Woś Adam, PSL
External links
- http://www.krosno.pl (English, Polish, German)
- http://www.XQ.pl (Polish)
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