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| Motto: Miasto spotkań / Meeting Place | |||
  Wrocław
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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian | ||
| County | city county | ||
| Established | Tenth century | ||
| City rights | 1262 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Rafał Dutkiewicz | ||
| Area | |||
| - City | 292.82 km² (113.1 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 111 m (364 ft) | ||
| Population (2007) | |||
| - City | 689,280 | ||
| - Density | 2,353.9/km² (6,096.7/sq mi) | ||
| - Metro | 1,030,000 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 50-041 to 54-612 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 71 | ||
| Car plates | DW | ||
| Website: http://www.wroclaw.pl | |||
Wrocław [ˈvrɔt͡swaf] (
listen) (German: Breslau ( listen); Czech: Vratislav; Latin: Vratislavia or Wratislavia; Yiddish: ברעסלוי) is the chief city of the historical region of Lower Silesia in south-western Poland, situated on the Oder (Polish: Odra) river. Over the centuries the city has been part of Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, and Germany. In 1945, the city was occupied by Poland following the Potsdam Agreement. Since 1999 it has been the capital of Lower Silesian Voivodeship. According to official population figures for 2006, its population is 635,280, making it the fourth largest city in Poland.
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The city's name was first recorded in the year 1000 by Thietmar's Latin chronicle called Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi Chronicon as Wrotizlawa. The first municipal seal stated Sigillum civitatis Wratislavie. Simplified name is given in 1175 as Wrezlaw, Prezla or Breslaw. The Czech spelling was used in Latin documents as Wratislavia or Vratislavia. At that time, Prezla was used in Middle High German, which became Preßlau. In the middle of the fourteenth century the Early New High German (and later New High German) form of the name Breslau began to replace its earlier versions.
The city is traditionally believed to be named after Wrocisław or Vratislav, often believed to be Duke Vratislaus I of Bohemia. It is also possible that the city was named after the tribal duke of the Silesians or after an early ruler of the city called Vratislav.
The city's name in various foreign languages include in English: Wroclaw, Hungarian: Boroszló, Italian: Breslavia, Latin: Vratislavia or Wratislavia, Hebrew: ורוצלב (Vrotsláv), Slovak: Vratislav or Vroclav, Belarusian: Уроцлаў (Vrotslai), Greek: Βρότσλαβ (Vrotslav), Russian: Вроцлав (Vrotslav); also Бреславль (Breslavl), Serbian: Вроцлав or Vroclav and Ukrainian: Вроцлав (Vrotslav). Names of Wrocław in other languages are also available. . ello
Wrocław has been historically considered one of the warmest cities in Poland. Lying in the Lower-Silesian region, one of the warmest in Poland, the mean annual temperature is 8.5 °C.
 Weather averages for Wrocław  |
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 2 (34) |
3 (37) |
8 (46) |
13 (56) |
18 (65) |
27 (81) |
29 (84) |
28 (83) |
24 (76) |
14 (57) |
7 (45) |
3 (37) |
13 (55) |
| Average low °C (°F) | -6 (22) |
-4 (24) |
-1 (30) |
5 (41) |
12 (54) |
16 (61) |
17 (63) |
17 (62) |
8 (47) |
5 (40) |
1 (33) |
-3 (26) |
5 (40) |
| Precipitation cm (inches) | 2.8 (1) |
2.6 (1) |
3 (1) |
3.8 (1.1) |
5 (2) |
6.6 (2.1) |
7.6 (2.4) |
7.1 (2.2) |
4.6 (1.5) |
4 (1.3) |
3.8 (1.3) |
3.6 (1.2) |
54.9 (20.3) |
| Source: Weatherbase1 2008-07-30 | |||||||||||||
Wrocław is the capital city of Lower Silesian Voivodeship, a province (voivodeship) created in 1999. It was previously the seat of Wrocław Voivodeship. The city is a separate urban gmina and city county (powiat). It is also the seat of Wrocław County, which adjoins but does not include the city.
Wrocław is subdivided into five boroughs (dzielnicas):
Today's Wrocław has ten state-run universities, including:
as well as numerous private institutions of higher education
Wrocław's major industries were traditionally the manufacture of railroad cars and electronics. The city is served by Wrocław International Airport and a river port.
Like all of Poland, Wrocław's population is predominantly Roman Catholic; the city is the seat of an Archdiocese. However, post-war resettlements from Poland's ethnically and religiously more diverse former eastern territories (Polish: Kresy) and the eastern parts of post-1945 Poland (see Operation Wisła) account for a comparatively large portion of Greek Catholics and Orthodox Christians of mostly Ukrainian (see Ukrainian minority in Poland) and Lemko descent.
The Wrocław area has many popular professional sports teams. The most popular sport today is probably basketball, thanks to Śląsk Wrocław, the award-winning men's basketball team (former Polish champions, second-place in 2004). The group D matches of Eurobasket 2009 are scheduled to take place in Wrocław in September 2009. Some matches of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championships in Poland and Ukraine are scheduled to take place in Wrocław.
After the sports the people who participate in these events are given a [snoofly snorglen] to hold and after they will eat the snoofly snorgen.
Twin towns:
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(in English, German, French and Polish) © 2007 Wrocław Municipality. Retrieved on 2008-10-23.
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