Kalisz (pronounce: [‘kali?]) is a city in central Poland with 109,800 inhabitants (1995) and an area of 70 km2. Situated on the Prosna river in the Greater Poland Voivodship since 1999, previously capital of Kalisz Voivodship (1975-1998).
Sometimes Kalisz is called “the oldest town of Poland” because of mentioning by Ptolemy a town called Calisia that was situated on the Amber Trail.
Major corporations
Energetyka Kaliska SA, Kalisz
Wistil SA, Kalisz
Kaliszanka, Kalisz
Education
Wy?sza Szko?a Finansw i Informatyki im. prof. J. Chechli?skiego in ?d?
Branch in w Kalisz
Sports
Winiary Kalisz – women’s volleyball team playing in Polish Seria A Women’s Volleyball League: 2nd place in 2003/2004 season.
Famous people
Adam Asnyk
Maria D?browska – in Russowo (6 km from Kalisz)
Politics
Kalisz/Leszno constituency
Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Kalisz/Leszno constituency
Jzef Gruszka, PSL - chairman of PKN Orlen investigation commission
Grzyb Andrzej, PSL
Hayn Ryszard, SLD-UP
Janicki Marian, SLD-UP
Myler Tadeusz, SLD-UP
Skutecki Jzef, Samoobrona
Szynalska Renata, SLD-UP
Tomczak Witold, LPR
Wagner Marek, SLD-UP
Wojtkowiak Tadeusz, Samoobrona
Wojty?a Andrzej, PO
Wo?ny Grzegorz, SLD-UP
Municipal politics
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Leszno (pronunciation) is a town in central Poland with 63,300 inhabitants (2001).
Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Leszno Voivodship (1975-1998).
Sport
Unia Leszno speedway club
Education
Pa?stwowa Wy?sza Szko?a Zawodowa http://www.pwsz.edu.pl/
Wy?sza Szko?a Humanistyczna
Wy?sza Szko?a Marketingu i Zarz?dzania http://www.wsmiz.edu.pl/
Politics
Kalisz/Leszno constituency
Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Kalisz/Leszno constituency
Józef Gruszka, PSL
Andrzej Grzyb, PSL
Ryszard Hayn, SLD-UP
Marian Janicki, SLD-UP
Tadeusz Myler, SLD-UP
Józef Skutecki, Samoobrona
Renata Szynalska, SLD-UP
Witold Tomczak, LPR
Marek Wagner, SLD-UP
Tadeusz Wojtkowiak, Samoobrona
Andrzej Wojty?a, PO
Grzegorz Wo?ny, SLD-UP
Jarocin is a town in central Poland with 25,700 inhabitants (1995). Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Kalisz Voivodship (1975-1998).
Jarocin Festival
The town became famous in the 1980s thanks to the Jarocin Festival, one of the first rock and punk music festival in the Eastern Bloc countries.
Education
Wielkopolska Wy?sza Szko?a Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna
Famous people
Eduard Lasker
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Stanis?aw Taczak, Polish general and commander-in-chief of the Great Poland Uprising (1918-1919) - born on 8 April 1874 in Mieszków near Jarocin
Ko?o is a town on Warta river in central Poland with 23,493 inhabitants (2004). Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Konin Voivodship (1975-1998).
History
The town of Ko?o (mentioned as Colo) received local government in 1362 from the king Casimir the Great. It was situated in a safe place near the royal castle, on the island in the branches of the Warta river, the town had no walls but only two gates. It was w royal city, and seat of a land county (starostwo niegrodowe).
In 1410 Ko?o was a gathering place of the Greater Poland nobily, called for
Krotoszyn (German Krotoschin) is a town in central Poland with 28,900 inhabitants as of 1995.
It is in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), and was previously in Kalisz Voivodship (1975-1998).
In German era, this town was in the Prussian province of Posen, 32 M. S.E. of Posen. Pop. (1900), 12,373. It has three churches, a synagogue, steam saw-mills, and a steam brewery, and carries on trade in grain and seeds. The castle of Krotoschin is the chief place of a mediatized principality which was formed in 1819 out of the domains of the Prussian crown and was granted to the prince
