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Country
  
Poland

Gmina
  
Gmina Pleszew

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
13.19 km²

Local time
  
Wednesday 1:35 AM

County
  
Pleszew County

Town rights
  
1283

Postal code
  
63-300

Population
  
17,787 (2006)

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Weather
  
7°C, Wind NW at 13 km/h, 96% Humidity

Voivodeship
  
Greater Poland Voivodeship

Pleszew ([ˈplɛʂɛf]; German: Pleschen) is a town in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, about 90 km southeast of Poznań. It is the capital of Pleszew County (powiat pleszewski). Population is 17,892 (2004).

Contents

Map of Pleszew, Poland

People

  • Hugo Leichtentritt (1874, here - 1951), a German Jewish musicologist and composer
  • Hanna Suchocka (born 1946, here)
  • Sergiusz Prusak (born 1979, here), a Polish footballer
  • Maciej Piaszczyński (born 1989, here), a Polish international speedway rider
  • Agnieszka (Lipska) Baranowska (1819–1890), a Polish playwright and poet, wrote several plays for this town's local theater
  • Moses Samuel Zuckermandl (1836, Uherský Brod - 1917), a Czech-German rabbi, lived here
  • Stefan Pawlicki (1839, Gdańsk - 1916), a Polish Catholic priest, philosopher, historian of philosophy; lived here
  • Emil Jarrow (Javorzynski) (born 1876, here - 1959), world touring vaudeville magician and comedian.
  • Teodor Jeske-Choiński (27 February 1854 - 14 April 1920 ) was a Polish intellectual, writer and historian, literature critic

    • Twin towns — Sister cities

    Pleszew is twinned with:

  • Morlanwelz
  • Spangenberg (1997)
  • Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron

    • References

    Pleszew Wikipedia
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