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Wadowice
Wadowice is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, 50 kilometres southwest of Kraków with 17,455 inhabitants (2022), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Foothills. Wadowice is known for being the birthplace of Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II and Godwin von Brumowski, Austria-Hungary’s best flying ace with 35 credited and an additional 8 possible wins in the air.
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- Population: 19,238.
- Timezone: Europe/Warsaw.