Świdnica is a city on the Bystrzyca River in south western Poland, in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, with a population of 55,413 as of 2021. It is the seat of Świdnica County and also of the smaller Gmina Świdnica district, although it forms a separate urban gmina of its own, and it ranks as the seventh largest city in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Świdnica became part of the Wałbrzych agglomeration on 23 January 2014. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Sources
1. Świdnica (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 50.84378, longitude 16.48859
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 250 m
P2046 (area)
area 21.96 sq km
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A city with almost a thousand years of history, recorded in 1070, Świdnica was one of the main cities of Silesia and southwestern Poland in the Middle Ages, the second most important center of culture and art in the region (after Wrocław), a famed brewing center, and in 1291-1392 the capital of an eponymous principality ruled by a local line of the Piast dynasty.
Świdnica (Wikipedia)
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Świdnica (Polish: [ɕfidˈɲit͡sa] ; German: Schweidnitz [ˈʃvaɪtnɪts]; Czech: Svídnice [ˈsviːdɲitsɛ]; Silesian: Swidnica) is a city on the Bystrzyca River in south-western Poland in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
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