Ruda Slaska

Ruda Slaska is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, close to Katowice. It is a district within the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a city with a population of 2 million. It is positioned in the Silesian Highlands, on the Klodnica River tributary of the Oder. It has been a part of the Silesian Voivodeship because its formation in 1999. Previously, it turned into in Katowice Voivodeship, and earlier than then, a part of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Ruda Slaska is one of the towns inside the Katowice city region population 2.7 million and within the extra Silesian metropolitan vicinity populace 5,294,000.

The population of the metropolis is 143,583. A large village is thought to have existed on the place of the modern day city center in 1243. The town call seems to indicate the attention and possibly exploitation of ores from early times. The area underwent fast industrialization inside the 19^th and the beginning of 20^th century. However, it remained a cluster of commercial settlements and villages till the 1950s, whilst it was administratively united. However, it by no means advanced into a virtually unified metropolis.