Żywiec (pol)

Żywiec

Żywiec ranks 4,174th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Stamford, Lincolnshire, Leonberg, and Bietigheim-Bissingen. Memorable people born in Żywiec include Tomasz Adamek, Monika Brodka, and Tomasz Jodłowiec. Memorable people who died in Żywiec include Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. Żywiec has been the birth place of many boxers and singers and the death place of many politicians. Żywiec is located in Poland.

Żywiec is a town on the River Soła in southern Poland with 31,194 inhabitants (2019). It is situated within the Silesian Voivodeship, near the Żywiec Lake and Żywiec Landscape Park, one of the eight protected areas in the voivodeship. Historically, the town has been part of the Lesser Poland region and is the capital of the Żywiecczyzna region, which is ethnically part of the Goral Lands. Read more on Wikipedia