Siedlce
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{{Infobox Settlement
| name = Siedlce
| image_skyline = Siedlce i katedra2.JPG
| imagesize = 250px
| image_caption = Town center
| image_flag = Flaga Siedlce.svg
| image_shield = Herb Siedlce.svg
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Masovian Voivodeship|Masovian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = ''City county''
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Wojciech Kudelski
| established_title = Established
| established_date = 1448
| established_title3 = Town rights
| established_date3 = 1547
| area_total_km2 = 32
| population_as_of = 2006
| population_total = 77047
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| latd = 52 | latm = 9 | lats = 54 | latNS = N | longd = 22 | longm = 16 | longs = 17 | longEW = E
| elevation_m = 155
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 08-100 to 08-119
| area_code = +48 025
| blank_name = [[Polish car number plates|Car plates]]
| blank_info = WS
| website = http://www.siedlce.pl/ }}
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'''Siedlce''' {{Audio-IPA-pl|Siedlce.ogg|'|ś|e|d|l|c|e}} ({{lang-yi|שעדליץ ''Shedlits''}}, {{lang-ru|Sedlets}} (Latinized)) is a town in eastern [[Poland]] with 77,092 inhabitants ([[as of 2005]]). Situated in the [[Masovian Voivodeship]] (since 1999), previously the town was the capital of a separate [[Siedlce Voivodeship]] (1975-1998).
Towns such as Siedlce in the depressed east have now been emptied by large-scale emigration to the West. Statistics show that 14 per cent of employers recently reported labour shortages, compared with 8 per cent in the first quarter of 2004.
The town was most probably founded some time before 15th century and was first mentioned under the name of Siedlecz in a document of [[1448]]. In [[1503]] [[Daniel Siedlecki]] erected a new village of the same name nearby and a church in the middle. In [[1547]] the town, created out of a merger of the two villages, was granted [[Magdeburg rights]] by King [[Sigismund the Old]]. Until [[1807]], when it was confiscated by the [[Russian empire|Russian authorities]], it remained a [[private town|private property]] of several notable [[magnate]] families, among them [[Czartoryski]] and [[Ogiński]]. During the [[World War II]] more than 50% of all buildings in the city, including a historical town hall, were destroyed.
== Education ==
===Higher education===
* [http://www.ap.siedlce.pl/ Akademia Podlaska (University of Podlasie)]
* [http://www.nkjo.siedlce.pl/ Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych (Foreign Languages Teachers' College)] granting diplomas of the [[University of Warsaw]]
* [http://www.wsfiz.siedlce.pl/ Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Zarządzania (The College of Finance and Management)]
* [http://www.wsd.siedlce.pl/ Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne (Theological seminary)]
*[http://www.wum.edu.pl/english/ Medical University of Warsaw, Faculty of Health Sciences]
===Notable secondary schools===
* [http://www.prus.siedlce.pl/ I LO im. Bolesława Prusa (Bolesław Prus Grammar School)]
* [http://lo2.ap.siedlce.pl/ II LO im. Św. Królowej Jadwigi (St. Queen Jadwiga Grammar School)]
== People from Siedlce ==
* [[Artur Boruc]] - a [[Celtic Glasgow]] goalkeeper
* [[Lidia Chojecka]] - a Polish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres and sometimes 3000 metres.
* [[Agata Wróbel]] - [[weightlifter]], [[2000 Summer Olympics]] silver medalist
* [[Aleksandra Klejnowska]] - weightlifter
* [[Bolesław Prus]] - writer, novelist
* [[Leon Wyczółkowski]] - painter
* [[Bohdan Arct]] - [[Fighter aircraft|fighter pilot]], writer
* [[Józef Oleksy]] - former [[Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland|PM]] of Poland
==Sister cities==
*{{flagicon|Belarus}} [[Brest, Belarus|Brest]], [[Belarus]]
== Gallery ==
<gallery perrow="3">
Image:Ratusz Miejski .JPG|City hall
Image:Sąd Okręgowy.JPG|The District Court
Image:Poczta Polska.JPG|The Post Office
Image:UM w Siedlcach.JPG|City hall
Image:Kościół Św.Stanisława.JPG|St. Stanislas Church
Image:Kilińskiego.JPG|Kiliński Street
</gallery>
== See also ==
* [[Siedlce Department]] ({{lang-pl|Departament Siedlecki}}): a unit of administrative division and local government in [[Poland|Polish]] [[Duchy of Warsaw]] in years 1806–1815.
* [[Gdańsk-Siedlce]] - one of the quarters of the city of [[Gdańsk]].
==External links==
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* [http://www.siedlce.pl/english/index.php Official Siedlce website] {{en icon}}
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