Pyskowice AUD is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

 in southern Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, near Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

. Borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union

Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union

The Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia or Upper Silesia Metroplex, Silesia Metroplex / Silesia Metroplex is a union of 14 adjacent cities in the Polish province of Silesia....

 - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Located in the Silesian Highlands

Silesian Highlands

Silesian Highlands are highlands located in Silesia and Lesser Poland, Poland. It is the part of Lesser Poland Highlands Its highest point is the Mountain of St. Anne .-See also:...

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It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia...

 since its formation in 1999, previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship

Katowice Voivodeship

Katowice Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by the Silesian Voivodeship...

. Pyskowice is one of the towns of the 2,7 million conurbation - Katowice urban area

Katowice urban area

The Katowice urban area, also known as the Upper Silesian urban area, is an urban area/conurbation in southern Poland. It is located in the Silesian Voivodeship and in a small part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The Katowice urban area is the largest urban area in Poland and one of the largest...

 and within a greater Silesian metropolitan area

Silesian metropolitan area

The Upper Silesian metropolitan area is the metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeast Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava in Silesia...

 populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 19,104 (2008).

People

• Agata Buzek
  Agata Buzek
  Agata Bronisława Buzek is a Polish actress.Agata, the daughter of Polish politician and current President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, was born in Pyskowice in Gliwice County, Poland. At a young age she suffered from poliomyelitis and was treated in Germany...
  
  
• Grzegorz Kasprzik
  Grzegorz Kasprzik
  Grzegorz Kasprzik is an Polish footballer who currently plays for Lech Poznań. He also holds German citizenship.-Career:Kasprzik began his career with Górnik Zabrze. Later he played for youth teams of Hamburger SV...
  
  
• Abraham Lewysohn
  Abraham Lewysohn
  Abraham Lewysohn was a Hebraist and rabbi of Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia. He left a large number of manuscripts, several hundred sermons in Hebrew and Danish, novellæ on the Talmud, verses, a German work on Hebrew grammar, and a work entitled Dorot Tannaim wa-Amoraim, a history of the Tannaim and...
  
  , rabbi
• Rafał Szombierski

External links

• Webpage of the town (Polish, English, German)
• Peiskretscham Website