Bedzin

Bedzin is a metropolis in Zaglebie Dabrowskie, southern Poland. It lays in the Silesian Highlands, at the Czarna Przemsza River a tributary of the Vistula. Even although a part of Silesian Voivodeship, Bedzin belongs to historical Lesser Poland and it is one of the oldest towns of this province. Bedzin is regarded because the capital of Zaglebie Dabrowskie. It has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship on the grounds that its formation in 1999. Before 1999, it became placed in Katowice Voivodeship 1975 to 1999. Bedzin is one of the towns of the 2.7 million man or woman conurbation Katowice city region and inside an extra Silesian metropolitan location populated through about 5,294,000 humans.

The population of the town itself is 58,639 in 2008. Bedzin is positioned 12 km from Katowice and 4 km from the middle of Sosnowiec. Bedzin borders the cities of Sosnowiec, Dabrowa Gornicza, Czeladz, Siemianowice slaskie and Wojkowice, in addition to the village of Psary. First point out of the village of Bedzin comes from 1301, but a settlement or a grod had existed right here since the 9^th century, guarding historical trade path from Kiev to Western Europe.