Wadowice is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, about 50 kilometres southwest of Kraków, with 17,455 inhabitants as of 2022. It sits on the Skawa river near its confluence with the Vistula, in the eastern part of the Silesian Foothills, and is known as the birthplace of Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, and of Godwin von Brumowski, Austria-Hungary's leading flying ace of the First World War with 35 credited victories and an additional 8 possible. 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 Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude49.883333 degrees north 1 FAQs
Why did tourism grow in Wadowice?
Its heritage and its status as the birthplace of Pope John Paul II led to fast growth of tourism after 1989.
After Poland's peaceful change of political and economic system in 1989, most of the local industry in Wadowice was found inefficient and went bankrupt. The area's ecological and historical heritage, together with the town's status as the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, then led to fast growth of tourism.
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1. Wadowice (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 17,905 (2021)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 49.883333, longitude 19.5
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 450 m
P2046 (area)
area 12.98 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 17905 (2021)
View the Source2. Wikipedia (Polish): Wadowice
Wikipedia (Polish)Source text, founding-year: 1325Quote, Source text, founding-year: 1325
Miasto, po raz pierwszy wzmiankowane w 1325 r. [ 6 ] , początkowo było niewielkim ośrodkiem, lecz od końca XVIII w., wraz z budową traktu środkowogalicyjskiego łączącego Lwów z Wiedniem , a także przeniesieniem przez władze austriackie siedziby cyrkułu wadowickiego , zaczęło się szybciej rozwijać.
3. Wadowice (Wikipedia)
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Wadowice (Polish: [vadɔˈvit͡sɛ] ) is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, 50 kilometres (31 miles) southwest of Kraków with 17,455 inhabitants (2022), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Foothills (Pogórze Śląskie).
History
The first permanent settlement in the area of today's Wadowice was founded in the late 10th century or early 11th century.
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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