Żywiec (pol)

Żywiec

Żywiec ranks 3,909th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kannapolis, North Carolina, College Park, Georgia, and Maldonado, Uruguay. The most famous people from Żywiec are Wilhelm Brasse, Tomasz Adamek, and Tomasz Jodłowiec. The most famous people who died in Żywiec are Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Wilhelm Brasse, and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. Żywiec has been the birth place of many athletes, and photographers and the death place of many politicians, and photographers. Żywiec is located in Poland.

Żywiec is a town on the River Soła in southern Poland, in Lesser Poland (Małopolska) 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 and culturally, the town is 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