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The city became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742 during the Silesian Wars and part of the German Empire in 1871. In the 19th and the first part of the 20th centuries, the city rapidly grew and industrialized. Polish Gymnasium in Bytom in the 1930s. The Sleeping Lion at Bytom's Market Square.
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Beuthen. Bytom: Silesian Opera. Silesian Opera, Bytom, Pol. Bytom, city, Śląskie województwo (province), southern Poland. It is one of the oldest and largest industrial cities in the Upper Silesia coal region. Bytom’s origins were in the 11th century under the rule of King Bolesław I (the Brave).
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May 14, 2014 · City founders also needed sources of water and land to grow food. Depending on the goals of the city, other factors might also be important, such as access to trade routes. Today, we don’t hear about new cities being founded often. But it still happens! Most new cities today start as rural or suburban areas that later decide to incorporate as ...
Apr 10, 2014 · The concept of the city, first manifested in the construction of Eridu, did not remain bound by that area for long. Urbanization spread across the region of Sumer rapidly beginning in c. 4500 BCE with the rise of the city of Uruk, today considered the world's first city.
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Apr 26, 2013 · The city, unencumbered by the geographic restrictions of places like San Francisco and Manhattan quickly grew outward rather than upward; fueled by the car and quite literally fueled by the many ...
Jul 25, 2017 · But how did this gritty Midwestern port become the Motor City? Why was its fate to dominate the American car and truck market in the 20th Century? How did Detroit give birth to the Big Three (and dozens of other carmakers that have come and gone)?
The city of Budapest was officially created on 17 November 1873 from a merger of the three neighboring cities of Pest, Buda and Óbuda. Smaller towns on the outskirts of the original city were amalgamated into Greater Budapest in 1950. The origins of Budapest can be traced to Celts who occupied the plains of Hungary in the 4th century BC.
