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Being a city with long traditions of commercial trade, Bytom is fulfilling its new postindustrial role. In the centre of Bytom, and mainly around Station Street and the Market Square, is the largest concentration of registered merchants in the county.
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Bytom (German: Beuthen) is an industrial city in southwestern Poland.The population is 231,200 (1991 est.). Coal, zinc, lead, and silver aremined nearby, and the city has an institute of mining. Major products includeiron and steel, silver, heavy machinery, and furniture. Its silver foundryis the largest in Poland.
The history of Beuthen goes back to the Middle Ages, when it was foundedin the eleventh century by King Boleslaw I, the Brave, and chartered in 1254.It was the capital of an independent duchy from 1282 to 1289 and was partof the early Polish nation. It was subsequently held by Bohemia and theAustrian-dominated Hapsburg Empire until it passed to Pru...
The region around Bytom is Poland's main industrial area, consistingof an almost continuously built-up "conurbation" of about a dozentowns. Its two million inhabitants make it the most densely populated partof the country, with 350,000 in the largest city — Katowice. During the Communist era, the region became notorious for the horrendouspollution ...
The American telecommunications company Sprint recently obtained a contractto build a modern telecommunications network in the Silesia and Pila regionsof Poland as part of a joint venture. The project, whose total cost isput at $165 million, was announced in late 1994 and is expected to be completedin 1997. Lucent Technologies (formerly a division ...
"Poland, The Rough Guide" by Mark Salter and GordonMcLachlan (London, 1993).A book about Beuthen, "Die Deutsche Stadt Beuthen O/S und ihreNachste Umgebung" published in 1925, is available on microfilmfrom the Mormon Family History Library (call no. 943.85/B5).Jewish and civil records from Beuthen, mainly from the 1800s and early1900s, are also available on microfilm from the Mormon Family History Library.The Jewish cemetery in Beuthen is still intact.The Washington, D.C. museum has a database of documents you can searchfor references to Beuthen. Click hereto launch your search, or hereto learn about the museum and its archives. Thissite is hosted at no cost by JewishGen,Inc., the Home of Jewish Genealogy. If you have been aided in yourresearch by this site and wish to further our mission of pre...
Bytom. Bytom is one of the oldest cities in the historic Upper Silesia, which is located in the very centre of the Metropolis GZM. From here, in the second half of the 1930s, you could get to Berlin in less than five hours by train. Today in Bytom, the area of 69.44 square kilometres is inhabited by 150,000 people.
City location. Bytom is a city with poviat rights, inhabited by ca. 145 thousands residents, situated at the heart of the Upper Silesian Agglomeration of Cities. With its more than 760-year-old history, it is one of the oldest cities in Upper Silesia. It covers the area of 69.44 km² and adjoins Chorzów, Piekary Śląskie, Radzionków, Ruda ...
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