Kielce

Kielce is a city in south principal Poland with 196,335 populations. It has been the capital city of the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship due to the fact that 1999, and became previously the capital of the predecessor Kielce Voivodeship 1919 to 1939, 1945 to 1998. The town is positioned within the middle of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains Holy Cross Mountains, on the banks of the Silnica River, in northern a part of the historic Polish province of Lesser Poland. The history of Kielce dates returned over 900 years and the exact date while the town was founded stays unknown.

The call of the city derives from the migrating Celts, who as soon as stopped right here at some point of their journey across the European continent. The place changed into later inhabited at the beginning of the 11^th century by using hunters and beekeepers, who bartered the fruit in their paintings for seed grain. It became then that a market changed into hooked up, in which wooded area merchandise had been exchanged for agricultural produce. At the turn of the 12^th century, the bishops of Krakow have become the proprietors of the settlement and began building a citadel on a close by hill.