Skierniewice s is a town in central Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 with 49,132 inhabitants (2007), situated in the Łódź Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Skierniewice Voivodship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Skierniewice County

Skierniewice County

Skierniewice County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Skierniewice, although the city is...

. The town is situated almost exactly half-way between Łódź and Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

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Skierniewice gained municipal rights in 1457. It has a famous railway station that used to be a part of historical Warsaw-Vienna Railway

Warsaw-Vienna Railway

The Warsaw-Vienna Railway was a railway system which operated in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire, from 1845 until 1912, when it was nationalized by the Russian government...

. On September 15, 1884 it was the setting for the meeting of the Three Emperors' League.

Famous people connected with Skierniewice region:

• Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Władysław Reymont
• world-renowned pianist Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
  
  
• Jan Kozietulski
  Jan Kozietulski
  Baron Jan Leon Hipolit Kozietulski was a Polish noble, military commander and an officer of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic Wars. He is best remembered as the heroic commander of the Polish cavalry charge at the Battle of Somosierra.Jan Leon Hipolit Kozietulski was...
  
  , a military commander of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw
  Duchy of Warsaw
  The Duchy of Warsaw was a Polish state established by Napoleon I in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit. The duchy was held in personal union by one of Napoleon's allies, King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony...
  
  
• Ignacy Krasicki
  Ignacy Krasicki
  Ignacy Krasicki , from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno , was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet , a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and...
  
  , a Roman Catholic archbishop and a writer

Education

• Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna

• Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa

Piotrków Trybunalski/Skierniewice constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

) elected from Piotrkow/Skierniewice constituency in 2005

• Bujak Bogdan, SLD-UP
• Jagieliński Roman, SLD-UP
• Kędziak Tadeusz, LPR
• Kwaśniewska Dorota, Samoobrona
• Łyżwiński Stanisław, Samoobrona
• Musiał Zbigniew, SLD-UP
• Radziszewska Elżbieta, PO
• Sobotka Zbigniew, SLD-UP
• Wojciechowski Janusz, PSL

Twin towns

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Châtelaillon-Plage

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Purgstall an der Erlauf

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, Náměšť na Hané

Námešt na Hané

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, Levice

Levice

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