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    from Wąchock contributed to the development of early industry along the Kamienna river, opening metal plants in several locations. In 1454, Wąchock received...
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    culture, Wąchock jokes are jokes about the inhabitants of the town of Wąchock, and especially their sołtys (referring to the times when Wąchock was a village)...
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    Wąchock Abbey (Polish: Opactwo Cystersów w Wąchocku) is a Cistercian abbey in Wąchock, Poland. Located near the larger town of Starachowice in the Świętokrzyskie...
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  • the town of Wąchock, Gmina Wąchock contains the villages and settlements of Marcinków, Parszów, Rataje, Węglów and Wielka Wieś. Gmina Wąchock is bordered...
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    Inhabited since pre-historic times, the area of Skarżysko-Kamienna and Wąchock contains several hundred former Paleolithic sites from 13,000-10,000 years...
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    Wadowice Wałbrzych Wałcz Warka Warszawa (English: Warsaw) Warta Wasilków Wąbrzeźno Wąchock Wągrowiec Wąsosz Wejherowo Węgliniec Węgorzewo Węgorzyno Węgrów...
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    religious tax (tithe), paid for monasteries at Miechów and Wąchock. The Order of Cistercians from Wąchock probably founded the wooden church of Saint Giles at...
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    Catalunya in Barcelona Elgin Cathedral - octagonal, unusually for Scotland Wąchock Abbey, Romanesque in Poland Westminster Abbey Canterbury Cathedral rectangular...
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    was built around the forge, belonged until 1817 to the Cistercians from Wąchock Abbey, located nearby. It was the monks who in 1789 initiated construction...
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    Oskar Sosnowski designed the pedestal and basin, which are made of red Wąchock sandstone. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "The Statue of Fryderyk...
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