Tarnowskie Góry [tarˈnɔfskjɛ ˈgurɨ] (German: Tarnowitz) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Located in the Silesian Highlands.
It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Tarnowskie Góry is one of the cities of the 2,7 million conurbation - Katowice urban area and within a greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people[1]. The population of the city is 60,975 (2008)[2].
Interesting things in Tarnowskie Góry
Personalities
- George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern, co-founder of Tarnowitz
- Alexander Kohut, talmudist and orientalist, rabbi of Tarnowitz (1865-67)
- Theodora Paula Helene von Limburg-Stirum, countess
- Jan Miodek, linguist
- Philipp Roth, cellist
- Józef Wandzik, footballer
- Łukasz Żelezny, composer and dj
- Carl Wernicke, physician and neuropathologist.
- Klaus Wyrtki, geophysicist
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Coordinates: 50°27′N 18°51′E / 50.45°N 18.85°E / 50.45; 18.85
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Poland
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