Chorzow

Chorzow is a town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzow is one of the primary districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union a town with a population of two million. It is placed in the Silesian Highlands, on the Rawa River a tributary of the Vistula. Administratively, Chorzow is inside the Silesian Voivodeship on account that 1999, previously Katowice Voivodeship, and earlier than, the Silesian Voivodeship. Chorzow is one of the towns of the 2.7 million conurbations the Katowice city region and within a greater Silesian metropolitan location with the populace of approximately 5,294,000 humans. The populace within the metropolis limits is 109,021 as of December 2017.

The metropolis of Chorzow was fashioned in 1934 to 1939 through a merger of 4 adjacent cities Chorzow, Krolewska Huta, Nowe Hajduki and Hajduki Wielkie. The name of the oldest settlement Chorzow becomes applied to the amalgamated metropolis. The etymology of the call isn't recognized. Chorzow is thought to be first stated as Zversov or Zuersov in a file of 1136 through Pope Innocent II as village with peasants, silver miners, and two hotels.