A city of southwest Poland southwest of Wroclaw. A coal-mining center, it passed from Germany to Poland after the Potsdam Conference of 1945. Population: 126,000.
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Wałbrzych
(väl'bzhĭkh) , Ger. Waldenburg, city (1992 est. pop. 141,300), Dolnośląskie prov., SW Poland. Coal mining, chemical production, metallurgy, and textile milling are the chief economic activity. The city's importance dates from the 19th-century industrialization of the Lower Silesian coal basin. Wałbrzych sustained great damage during World War II, after which it passed from Germany to Poland.
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