Tarnów

Tarnów (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtarnuf]; German: Tarnau; Yiddish: טארנא‎, Torna) is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants (metro area 269,000 inhabitants) as of June 2009. The city has been situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999, but from 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east-west connection from Lviv to Kraków. Also, from Tarnów two additional lines stem - a southwards main line to the Slovak border via Stróże, as well as a minor northwards line to Szczucin (now defunct).

Etymology and location

Tarnów lies at the Carpathian foothills, on the Dunajec and the Biała rivers. The area of the city is 72.4 km², and it is divided into sixteen districts, known in Polish as osiedla. A few kilometers west of the city lies the district of Moscice, built in the late 1920s, together with a large chemical plant. The district was named after President of Poland, Ignacy Mościcki.

In the first documented mention of the settlement (1105), it was spelled Tharnow. The name later evolved to Tarnowo (1229), Tarnów (1327), and Tharnow (1473). The place's name, Tarnów, is widely used in different forms across Slavic Europe, and lands which used to be inhabited by Slavs, such as eastern Germany, Hungary, and northern Greece. There is a German town, Tarnow, Greek Tyrnavos (also spelled as Tirnovo), Czech Trnov, Bulgarian Veliko Tarnovo and Malko Tarnovo, as well as different Trnovos/Trnowos in Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia, and Macedonia. The name Tarnów comes from an early Slavic word trn/tarn, which means a thorn, or an area covered by thorny plants.

Tarnow

Tarnow may refer to:

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See also

Tarnów (parliamentary constituency)

Tarnów is a Polish parliamentary constituency in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It elects twelve members of the Sejm and three members of the Senate.

The district has the number '15' for elections to the Sejm and the Senate, and is named after the city of Tarnów. It includes the counties of Bochnia, Brzesko, Dąbrowa, Proszowice, Tarnów, Wieliczka and the city-county of Tarnów.

2011 Elections

The results of the 2011 elections

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