City in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers (tributaries of the Oder and the Vistula). Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about 50 km from the Silesian Beskids (part of the Carpathian Mountains) and about 100 km from Sudetes Mountains.
Katowice has been the capital of Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999. Previously, it was the capital of the Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Katowice is the main city of the Upper Silesian Industry Area and the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union.Its population is 317,220 (2006), within a greater urban area populated by about 3.5 million people.
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The first mention of Katowice goes back to 1598 and is found in notes made by the Reverend Kazimierski who visited the Bogucice parish. However, the history of the city was marked by fates of several much earlier Slavic agricultural settlements dating from the 14th and 16th centuries as well as smithies which now make up the city quarters. It is the smithies, emerging in place of shallowly buried iron ore bodies, that influenced development in the areas which until recently have still been covered by swamps and woodland crossed by a dense network of rivers. Obviously, along with the smithies the settlements came into existence - and this is how the origin of pesent Katowice looks like.(more)
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