Siedlce
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Siedlce (['ɕȋedlʦε] ) is a town in eastern Poland with 77,092 inhabitants (as of 2005). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the town was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975-1998).
The town was most probably founded some time before 15th century and was first mentioned under the name of Siedlecz in a document of 1448. In 1503 Daniel Siedlecki erected a new village of the same name nearby and a church in the middle. In 1547 the town, created out of a merger of the two villages, was granted with Magdeburg Law by king Sigismund the Old. Until 1807, when it was confiscated by the Russian authorities, it remained a private property of several notable magnate families, among them Czartoryski and Ogiński. During the World War II more than 50% of all buildings in the city, including a historical town hall, were destroyed.
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[edit] Education
[edit] Politics
[edit] Ostrołęka-Siedlce constituency
Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Ostrołęka-Siedlce constituency
- Chrzanowski Zbigniew, PO
- Deptuła Zbigniew, PSL
- Dziewulski Zbigniew, Samoobrona
- Filipek Krzysztof, Samoobrona
- Janowski Gabriel, LPR
- Kalinowski Jarosław, PSL
- Krutczenko Zbigniew, SLD-UP
- Kurpiewski Stanisław, SLD-UP
- Józef Oleksy, SLD-UP
- Piłka Marian, PiS
- Prządka Stanisława, SLD-UP
- Sawicki Marek, PSL
[edit] See also
- Siedlce Department (Polish: Departament Siedlecki): a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806-1815.
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Gdańsk-Siedlce is also one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk.
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