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    The Wieliczka Salt Mine (Polish: Kopalnia soli Wieliczka) is a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near Kraków in southern Poland. From Neolithic times...
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    by Premislaus II of Poland. Nowadays, it is mostly known for the Wieliczka Salt Mine, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, and the historic...
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    at 16 levels. In 2013, the mine was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List as an extension of the Wieliczka Salt Mine inscription of 1978. The August...
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    Siberian salt mines. Salt mines Khewra Schacht Asse II Turda Wieliczka Windsor General Salt evaporation pond Brine mining Injection well Salt lake Salt dome...
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  • sites. The first two sites inscribed on the World Heritage List were Wieliczka Salt Mine and Historic Centre of Kraków, in 1978. The most recent addition...
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  • further filming was carried out in Police, in Lower Silesia, in the Wieliczka salt mine, in the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, Krakow, again on the coast and...
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    Halite (redirect from Rock salt)
    copper mine of Hancock, Michigan. The world's largest underground salt mine is the Sifto Salt Mine. It produces over 7 million tons of rock salt per year...
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  • Głęboki-Przemysłowy mine Lubin mine Myszków mine Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine Retków mine Kujawy mine Szklary mine Bochnia Salt Mine Wieliczka Salt Mine...
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    treasurer. He is also tipping over the salt cellar, which may be related to the near-Eastern expression to "betray the salt" meaning to betray one's master....
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    the entire Old Town and historic centre of Kraków, and the nearby Wieliczka Salt Mine, as Poland's first World Heritage Sites. Kraków is classified as...
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  • Wieliczka Salt Mine Toruń Malbork Castle Wawel Castle Elbląg Canal Zamość Kraków Market Square The Seven Wonders of Poland (Polish: Siedem cudów Polski)...
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    Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznań, Szczecin, Lublin, Toruń, Zakopane, the Salt Mine in Wieliczka and the historic site of Auschwitz – a German Nazi concentration...
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    mined here. The silver Joachimsthaler coins minted here since the 16th century gave their name to the Thaler and the dollar. After the Wieliczka Salt...
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  • the Plaszow Concentration Camp, Yanek was moved to the Wieliczka Salt Mine and worked in the mines for a short time until he was moved to Trzebinia Concentration...
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    in Soledar's mines Sculptures from Salt A sign in the salt mine Inside Soledar salt mine Soledar crest in the salt mine Wieliczka Salt Mine "Ukraine: The...
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    in Italy Bochnia Salt Mine, southern Poland, central Europe Wieliczka Salt Mine, near Kraków in Poland, central Europe Khewra Salt Mine, in Punjab , Pakistan...
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    1878 visit that he had paid to the famous ancient labyrinthine salt mine at Wieliczka, near Kraków in southern Poland. According to the foremost Prus...
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    Forests The Salt auditorium. Nemocón, neighbouring salt mine to the northeast Bochnia Salt Mine, southern Poland, central Europe Wieliczka Salt Mine, near Kraków...
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    the towns of Wieliczka and Bochnia, salt mines were established in the 12th and 13th centuries (see Bochnia Salt Mine, Wieliczka Salt Mine). In the 20th...
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    only salt in Poland which is colourful (pink and blue) and colourful elements in Wieliczka Salt Mine come from Kłodawa Salt Mine. Wieliczka Salt Mine Bochnia...
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    kitchen and maintenance women. Wieliczka (1944), underground airplane parts factory located at the site of the Wieliczka Salt Mine with 1,700 slave workers...
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    named "the city of salt," for its mines. High-quality rock salt was cut in medieval Transylvania, Maramureş, and southern Poland (Wieliczka). Tuzla in Bosnia...
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    the Royal Salt Mines collectively), Wieliczka Salt Mine in Wieliczka and Bochnia Salt Mine in Bochnia (city rights, 1253), as well as river salt ports on...
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    headquarters of the Wieliczka and Bochnia Salt Mine. The castle is located in the former mine complex and was designated as part of the Wieliczka and Bochnia...
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  • 17th century) was a Polish doctor and surgeon for miners of the Wieliczka Salt Mine and their families. She is considered the first female surgeon in...
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    city's preservation". UNESCO. 25 June 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2016. "Wieliczka Salt Mine". UNESCO. Retrieved 26 June 2011. "World Heritage Committee: Twenty-second...
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    G. Wells; and extolled man-made and natural wonders such as the Wieliczka Salt Mine, an 1887 solar eclipse that he witnessed at Mława, planned building...
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    stories: Angkor in Cambodia, the Old City of Dubrovnik in Croatia, the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków in Poland, and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania...
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    and wax – while Kraków itself exported textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Salt Mine. In the immediate vicinity of the hall, the Great Weigh House...
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    the 13th-century Wieliczka Salt Mine with its labyrinthine tunnels, underground lake and chapels carved by miners out of rock salt beneath the ground...
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