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    from Wąchock contributed to the development of early industry along the Kamienna river, opening metal plants in several locations. In 1454, Wąchock received...
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    culture, Wąchock jokes are jokes about the inhabitants of the town of Wąchock, and especially their sołtys (referring to the times when Wąchock was a village)...
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    Inhabited since pre-historic times, the area of Skarżysko-Kamienna and Wąchock contains several hundred former Paleolithic sites from 13,000-10,000 years...
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    Wąchock Abbey (Polish: Opactwo Cystersów w Wąchocku) is a Cistercian abbey in Wąchock, Poland. Located near the larger town of Starachowice in the Świętokrzyskie...
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  • the town of Wąchock, Gmina Wąchock contains the villages and settlements of Marcinków, Parszów, Rataje, Węglów and Wielka Wieś. Gmina Wąchock is bordered...
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    religious tax (tithe), paid for monasteries at Miechów and Wąchock. The Order of Cistercians from Wąchock probably founded the wooden church of Saint Giles at...
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    Wadowice Wałbrzych Wałcz Warka Warszawa (English: Warsaw) Warta Wasilków Wąbrzeźno Wąchock Wągrowiec Wąsosz Wejherowo Węgliniec Węgorzewo Węgorzyno Węgrów...
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    was built around the forge, belonged until 1817 to the Cistercians from Wąchock Abbey, located nearby. It was the monks who in 1789 initiated construction...
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    the reform of the Sulejów monastery, i.e., taking in the monks from the Wąchock monastic buildings. After this event Władysław again appeared in Mazovia...
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    Catalunya in Barcelona Elgin Cathedral - octagonal, unusually for Scotland Wąchock Abbey, Romanesque in Poland Westminster Abbey Canterbury Cathedral rectangular...
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    and producer Krakowski. Soyka's first studio album in five years, Studio Wąchock, was released in October 2009. Soyka has won two Fryderyk Awards: as "Best...
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    an orgy of destruction; among others, ancient abbeys of Koprzywnica and Wąchock were looted (most probably, they failed to capture the Łysa Góra Benedictine...
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    Oskar Sosnowski designed the pedestal and basin, which are made of red Wąchock sandstone. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "The Statue of Fryderyk...
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    1863, he took the command of the armed bands. He defeated the Russians at Wąchock and Słupia (February), capturing 1000 muskets and 8 cannon. This victory...
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  • and pepper Kiełbasa swojska wąchocka hycowana (homemade Wąchock kiełbasa) - traditional Wąchock kiełbasa, with an intense alder and birchen, heavy garlic...
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  • Wąchock, within Starachowice County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) west of Wąchock,...
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    biggest camps in Lesser Poland, there were Ojców (3000 soldiers), and Wąchock, where Marian Langiewicz gathered up to 1500 people. The uprising died...
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    was exhumed and transferred to a crypt in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock.[citation needed] In November 1943, Piwnik married Emilia Malessa.[citation...
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    Kielce, Bałtów, Krzyżtopór, Busko-Zdrój and Opatów, as well as Ćmielów, Wąchock and Zalew Sielpia. The series shows the adventures of a Roman Catholic...
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    1986 http://www.sulejow.cystersi.pl Wąchock Abbey Common Observance 1179 Wąchock, Poland 1818 1951 http://www.wachock.cystersi.pl Mogiła Abbey Common Observance...
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    monastery of Pelplin Cathedral is an important example of Brick Gothic. Wąchock abbey is one of the most valuable examples of Polish Romanesque architecture...
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  • Węglów [ˈvɛŋɡluf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wąchock, within Starachowice County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central...
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  • remained in Russian hands. After retreating, Langiewicz's unit went to Wąchock. Five insurgents were killed, several wounded, and three wounded Poles...
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  • Wąchock, within Starachowice County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of Wąchock,...
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    monastery of Pelplin Cathedral is an important example of Brick Gothic. Wąchock Abbey is one of the most valuable examples of Polish Romanesque architecture...
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    Pawłów rural Starachowice Świętokrzyskie 137.37 15,192 110.59 -1.16 gmina Wąchock urban-rural Starachowice Świętokrzyskie 81.84 6,801 83.1 -3.79 gmina Bogoria...
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    hundred former Paleolithic sites stretching from Skarżysko-Kamienna to Wąchock. The sites were discovered in 1923–1925. In 1173, the knights' congress...
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    generous to the Church, especially with the Cistercians monasteries of Wąchock, Jędrzejów, Koprzywnica and Sulejów; with the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre...
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  • Sulejów Krzeszów Abbey Tyniec Jasna Góra Monastery Cistercians Abbey in Wąchock Jerónimos Monastery Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra Chudov Monastery Simonov Monastery...
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    ruled a gromada. From 1973 a sołtys governed a sołectwo. Schultheiß Wójt Wąchock jokes "Rocznik Statystyczny Województw 2011 (wybrane tablice)" (PDF). stat...
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