Zawiercie is a town in Silesian Voivodship, south Poland with 55,800 inhabitants (2005).Situated in Kraków-Częstochowa highland , near spring of Warta river. Silesian voivodship since 1999 Silesia or Silesian Voivodship(1) is an administrative region and local government unit in Poland, established in 1999 out of Katowice, CzÄtochowa and Bielsko-BiaÅa voivodships as a result of Local Government Reorganisation Act of 1998 (effective 1 January 1999). ... Warta (Latin: Varta, German: Warthe) is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. ...
History
in XII Century was village ( Kromołów, currently district of Zawiercie)