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Słupsk (pronounce: Missing image
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['swupsk], German Stolp) is a city in Middle Pomerania region and the capital of the region, in north-western Poland with some 100,000 inhabitants. It is also the capital of Slupsk County in Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously the capital of the Slupsk Voivodship (1975-1998)
It is a beautiful town only about 20 km from the Baltic sea. In relation to one of its more well known neighbours, it is about 120 km west of Gdansk.
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History
Historical population
1939: 48.200 inhabitants (mostly German)
1945:ca 7.000 inhabitants (inc. 800 Poles)
1950: 33.100 inhabitants (mostly Polish)
1960: 53.400 inhabitants
1970: 68.900 inhabitants
1975: 77.600 inhabitants
1980: 86.100 inhabitants
1990: 101.200 inhabitants
1995: 102.700 inhabitants
1999: 102,370 inhabitants
2003: 99,987 inhabitants
Education
- Pomorska Akademia Pedagogiczna(Pomeranian Pedagogical University)page (http://http://www.pap.edu.pl/bcz/index.html)
- Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania
Sports
- Czarni Słupsk - men basketball team, 9th in Era Basket Liga in 2003/2004 season.
Facilities
Near Slupsk there is the static invertor station of the HVDC link Swepol.
Politics
Gdynia/Slupsk constituency
Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Gdynia/Slupsk constituency
- Dorota Arciszewska-Mielewczyk, PO
- Jerzy Budnik, PO
- Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, SLD-UP
- Stanisław Kalinowski, PSL
- Jacek Kowalik, SLD-UP
- Kazimierz Plocke, PO
- Andrzej Różański, SLD-UP
- Joanna Senyszyn, SLD-UP
- Jan Sieńko, SLD-UP
- Robert Strąk, LPR
- Jolanta Szczypińska, PiS
- Władysław Szkop, SLD-UP
- Donald Tusk, PO
- Wiesław Walendziak, PiS
- Lech Zielonka, Samoobrona
External links:
- Official web-site (http://www.slupsk.pl)
- Museum of Central Pomerania (http://www.mars.slupsk.pl/mps/i_eng.htm)
- Moje Miasto Slupsk newspaper (http://www.slupsk.oferuje.pl) (Polish)
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