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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southern Poland west-northwest of Kraków. Chartered in 1865, it is an important mining and industrial center.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an industrial city of southern Poland

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Examples

  • But as Marek Mazour, political analyst at Silesia University in Katowice says:

    What's Polish for mulberry bush? Helen 2006

  • PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's Katowice, which is an industrial town just south of Poland.

    CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2006 2006

  • The angelo design hotel in Katowice, which is slated to open in the first quarter of 2010, and a Crowne Plaza Hotel at Airport City in St. Petersburg, which is scheduled to open at the end of 2010, are currently under construction.

    Presseportal 2009

  • Only four wagons for a train from Warsaw to Katowice?

    One Confirmed Dead in Polish Train Crash Marynia Kruk 2011

  • The low-cost, four-wagon train was travelling from Warsaw, the capital, to Katowice in south-western Poland, at the start of a long holiday weekend.

    One Confirmed Dead in Polish Train Crash Marynia Kruk 2011

  • Alojzy Baltazar Dreja was born on 1st of Jan 1918 in Przyszowice (small village in the vicinity of Katowice, south of Poland).

    2010 February « Mudpuddle 2010

  • Alojzy Baltazar Dreja was born on 1st of Jan 1918 in Przyszowice (small village in the vicinity of Katowice, south of Poland).

    2010 February 18 « Mudpuddle 2010

  • European Pressphoto Agency Damaged wagons of a passenger train from Warsaw to Katowice after it derailed in Baby, in central Poland.

    One Confirmed Dead in Polish Train Crash Marynia Kruk 2011

  • Alojzy Baltazar Dreja was born on 1st of Jan 1918 in Przyszowice (small village in the vicinity of Katowice, south of Poland).

    The Polish Airman — Update « Mudpuddle 2010

  • A spokesman for regional firefighters said the accident occurred near the city of Gliwice on a stretch of the A4 highway that runs from Katowice west to Zgorzelec, on the border with Germany.

    World Watch 2011

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