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Gli⋅wi⋅ce

  [glee-vee-tse]
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a city in SW Poland. 197,000.
German, Gleiwitz.
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Gli·wi·ce   (glĭ-vēt'sə, glē-vē'tsě)   
A city of south-central Poland west-northwest of Katowice. Chartered in 1276, it was ceded by Austria to Prussia in 1742 and assigned to Poland by the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Population: 199,000.
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Gliwice

city, Slaskie wojewodztwo (province), southern Poland. An old settlement of Upper Silesia, Gliwice was chartered in 1276 and became capital of the Gliwice principality in 1312. It passed first to Bohemia, then to the Habsburgs, and in 1742 was incorporated (as part of Silesia) with Prussia. It was not returned to Poland until after World War II.

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