The Rybnik Coal Area (Polish: Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy, ROW) is an industrial region in southern Poland.[1] It is located in the Silesian Voivodeship,[1] in a basin between the Vistula and Oder rivers, sited on the Rybnik Plateau (Polish: Płaskowyż Rybnicki) between Katowice (Metropolis GZM) to the north and Ostrava on the south-west. It is part of the Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area populated by 5,294,000 people[2] and the Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region [Wikidata] populated by about 7 million. According to scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska this area has 507,000 people,[3] according to European Spatial Planning Observation Network - 634,000 people (525,000[2] + 109,000[2] by Racibórz). Area: about 1,300 km2.[1]
^ abc(in Polish) "Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy" - PWN Encyclopedia
^ abcEuropean Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON)"Project 1.4.3". Archived from the original on 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
^"Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce" Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine - Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska; University of Warsaw 2005
The RybnikCoalArea (Polish: Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy, ROW) is an industrial region in southern Poland. It is located in the Silesian Voivodeship, in a...
metropolitan area with a population of 5.3 million and the main city of the so-called Subregion Zachodni, previously also known as the RybnikCoalArea. With...
within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin: Upper Silesian Industrial Region (Polish: Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy, GOP) RybnikCoalArea (Polish: Rybnicki Okręg...
Silesian Coal Basin, a home of altogether 5 million people (Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area). In the south-west it borders the RybnikCoalArea (Polish:...
within RybnikCoalArea Data may vary depending on the source, example for same the Katowice city exist sources for 3.5 million people; for the Rybnik – 507...
Rybnik Power Station is a hard coal-fired power station at Rybnik in Poland. The power station was built in the 1970s. It has installed power generation...
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development of coal mining. Among the most prominent deposits are those located in what are now the Upper Silesian Industrial Region and RybnikCoalArea (formerly...
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World War I. Because of the extended iron ore and black coal deposits of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, there was considerable industrialization and urbanization...
Duchy of Racibórz and Krnov [pl] (Ducatus Ratiboria et Carnovia) Duchy of Rybnik [de] Duchy of Siewierz (Seveřské knížectví, Księstwo Siewierskie, Herzogtum...
(Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy) and the RybnikCoal District (Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy) with its major cities Rybnik, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Żory and Wodzisław...
Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans...
there remain a variety of other Bohemian dialects, mostly in marginal rural areas. Dialect use began to weaken in the second half of the 20th century, and...
German due to the existence of numerous Silesian German speakers in the area prior to World War II and after. Some regard it as one of the four major...
one of the symbols of the Silesian people, especially those inhabiting the area of Upper Silesia. The flag is also popular symbol used by the Silesian Autonomy...
frequently considered a canonical part of Silesian culture, and often tied to coal mining culture as well. Left-over dumplings can be reheated or fried (like...
to America from the area of Płużnica Wielka, Strzelce Opolskie and Toszek in Opolian Silesia. The dialect evolved around the area of the unincorporated...
Voivodeship in southern Poland, within the northern portion of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin between the Vistula and Oder rivers. It is located roughly 72 km West...
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Subdivisions above. Part of the economy of the Sudetes is dedicated to tourism. Coal mining towns like Wałbrzych have re-oriented their economies towards tourism...
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