Alternate names: Czechowice-Dziedzice [Pol], Czechowitz-Dziedzitz [Ger], Czechowice, Dziedzice, 49°55' N, 19°01' E, 7 miles N of Bielsko Biała, in Cieszyn Silesia. Czechowice and Dziedzice merged in 1951. 1900 Jewish population: about 200. Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), II, p. 270: "Dziedzice". A town in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 34,867 inhabitants in 2004 on the northeastern edge of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia is a large rail junction. Situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodeship (1975-1998). Gmina Czechowice-Dziedzice is an urban-rural administrative district in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. The town of Czechowice-Dziedzice is the seat of the gmina. The population of Czechowice-Dziedzice is 34,811 with the population of the rural part of the gmina at 8,437. The gmina also contains the villages of Bronów, Ligota and Zabrzeg. [April 2009]
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