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Zabrze

Zabrze is a city in south Poland with 200,177 inhabitants (1999). Situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodship (1975-1998).

Like other towns in this populous region, it is an important manufacturing centre, having coal-mines, iron, wire, glass, chemical and oil works, breweries, etc.