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Radomrä'dôm, city (1993 est. pop. 230,500), Mazowieckie prov., SE Poland. It is a railway junction and an industrial center. The main products are textiles, glassware, chemicals, and processed food. One of the oldest Polish settlements, Radom probably originated as an assembly place for local diets. Its first church was built in 1187. Casimir the Great of Poland founded the town of New Radom on the site in 1364. It was the seat of Polish diets (14th–16th cent.), of a tribunal (1613–1766), and of the Confederation of Radom (1767), which asked Catherine II of Russia to guarantee the old Polish constitution. Radom passed to Austria in 1795 and to Russia in 1815. It reverted to Poland after World War I.
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Radom is a city in central Poland with 221,255 inhabitants. It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship, having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.
It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and best-attended air show in Poland, held during the last weekend of August. "Radom" is also the popular unofficial name for a semiautomatic 9 mm Para pistol of Polish design designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypinski which had been in production from 1935 to 1945 at the national arsenal located in the city.
The original settlement dates back to 8th–9th century....more »
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- Kołakowski, Leszek
Kołakowski, Leszek, 1927–, Polish philosopher, b. Radom. He taught at the Univ. of Warsaw (1950–68), where he also had obtained his Ph.D. (1953). A Marxist revisionist and critic of Eastern Eu...
- Poland
Poland, Pol. Polska, officially Republic of Poland, republic (2005 est. pop. 38,635,000), 120,725 sq mi (312,677 sq km), central Europe. It borders on Germany in the west, on the Baltic Sea an...
