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Radom
Żeromskiego Street
Coat of arms
Radom
Coordinates: 51°24′N 21°10′E / 51.4°N 21.167°E / 51.4; 21.167
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	city county
Established	13th century
Town rights	1364
Government
- Mayor	Andrzej Kosztowniak
Area
- City	111.71 km2 (43.1 sq mi)
Population (2009)
- City	223,914
- Density	2,004.4/km2 (5,191.4/sq mi)
- Metro	371,000
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	26-600 to 26-618
Area code(s)	+48 48
Car plates	WR
Website	http://www.radom.pl

Bernadine church and monastery

City hall

Radom [ˈradɔm] ( listen) (Yiddish: ראַדאָם/Radom) is a city in central Poland with 223,914 inhabitants (June 2009). It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship (1975–1998); 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.

It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and best-attended air show in Poland, held during the last weekend of August. "Radom" is also the popular unofficial name for a semiautomatic 9 mm Para pistol of Polish design (the Model 35/ViS-35) designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypinski (hence the designation "ViS") which had been in production from 1935 to 1945 at the national arsenal located in the city.

History

The original settlement dates back to 8th–9th century. It was an early mediaeval town in the valley of the Mleczna River (approximately on the location of present-day Old Town). Around the 2nd half of 10th century, it turned into a fortified town called Piotrówka.

Radom was founded in 1340, and it belonged to the Sandomierz Voivodeship (part of Little Poland) of the Kingdom of Poland, later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During the partitions of Poland it was held successively by Austria and Russia in the 19th century before returning to Poland after World War I in 1918. The main industries include leather, glass, and chemicals.

Up to the Second World War, like many other cities in interwar Poland, Radom had a significant Jewish population. According to Russian census of 1897, out of the total population of 28,700, Jews constituted 11,200 (so around 39% percent).^[1]

Important dates

• 1155: first mention about Radom (Pope Adrian IV bull)
• around 1300: Old Radom granted with Środa Śląska rights (city rights based on those of Środa Śląska)
• 1340: Casimir III founds New Radom (Nowy Radom)
• 1360–1370: Casimir III founds St. John's Church
• 1364: Radom granted with Magdeburg law
• 1383: Jadwiga of Poland accepted by a Sejm held in Radom as a king of Poland
• 1401: First union of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania signed in Radom
• 1481: Radom becomes a de-facto capital of Poland after Casimir IV of Poland moves to Lithuania and his son, Saint Casimir to be, ruled the country in his absence from Radom
• 1489: Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, John von Tieffen pays tribute to Casimir IV of Poland in Radom castle
• 1505: a Sejm in Radom passes the Nihil novi constitution and Łaski's Statute, the first real bill of rights of Poland
• 1564: 1800 inhabitants, 180 houses, 14 butchers' shops, two baths and two wells
• 1613: Radom becomes the place where the Highest Fiscal Courts are held
• 1628: Great fire destroys the town
• 1656: Charles X of Sweden stays in town during The Deluge
• 1660: the city plundered by Sweden; after they leave the town has 395 inhabitants and 37 houses
• 1737–1756: Kolegium Pijarów [the Piarists College] school founded
• 1763: Fiscal Tribunal moved to Warsaw; the town has 1370 inhabitants and 137 buildings
• 1795: After the 3rd Partition Radom is annexed by Austria
• 1809: Radom becomes capital of a department of the Duchy of Warsaw
• 1815: Radom, after the Congress of Vienna, becomes part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland
• 1817: First lay school founded
• 1819: Fryderyk August Schnierstein opens a tannery, the date is considered a start of towns industrialization
• 1844: Radom becomes the capital of Radom-Kielce government
• 1867: Creation of Radom government; the sewers are built
• 1885: Dęblin–Dąbrowa Górnicza railway opened
• 1901: electricity plant opened
• 1911: Radom has 51,934 inhabitants
• 1920–1939: Radom becomes a part of the Central Industrial Area (Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy); Chemical Plant, arms and munitions factory (Łucznik Arms Factory), gas works, telephone and shoe factories are founded
• 1935: Radom–Warsaw railway opened. It significantly shortened rail distance between Warsaw and Krakow
• 1938: 90,059 inhabitants
• 1939–1945: capital of Radom district of the General Government
  • 1942-1944: Radom Ghetto
• January 16, 1945: liberation from German occupation
• 1948–1975: Theatre (Teatr Dramatyczny) and an engineering school are opened.
• 1975: the city becomes the capital of Radom Voivodeship
• June 25, 1976: Huge workers' strike against the communist regime; the town becomes one of the main centres of anti-communist opposition in Poland
• June 4, 1991: Pope John Paul II visits the city
• 1996: Radomska Wyższa Szkoła Inżynierska promoted to the rank of a Kazimierz Pułaski Technical University of Radom (Politechnika Radomska)
• 1999: Radom becomes the capital of Radom County of the Masovian Voivodeship
• May 25, 2002: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger visits the city

Current events

In 2007, two pilots died in a fatal accident at the Air Show resulting in the cancellation of the rest of the event. On the 30th of August 2009, also during the air show, another two pilots who represented Belarus were killed when their plane crashed.

Radom was one of the main centres of the strike action taken by Polish health care workers in 2007.

Tourist attractions

St Waenceslaus church in the Old Town Square

founded by Leszek I the White, built in the 13th century in gothic style

St John the Baptist church

founded by Casimir III, built in the years 1360–1370 in gothic style, and re-constructed many times

Bernardine church and monastery

founded by Casimir IV of Poland, built in the years 1468–1507

Holy Trinity Church

built in the years 1619–1627 in the baroque style, burned in a fire and was rebuilt in the years 1678–1691

Gąska's and Esterka's Houses

16th / 17th century

Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession

built in 1785

Building of city council

built in the years 1825–1827, designed in classical style by Antonio Corazzi

City hall

built in the years 1847–1848

Cathedral of Virgin Mary

built in the years 1899–1908 in neo-gothic style

Tool gates

built in the 19th century in classical style

Culture

Jacek Malczewski Museum

Cinemas

• Helios www
• Hel (currently not functioning)
• Multikino (under construction)

Theatre

• Jan Kochanowski Theatre www

Museums and art galleries

• Jacek Malczewski Museum www
• Modern art museum www
• Scouting Museum
• "Elektrownia" - Power station built in 1903, renewed as a Modern art gallery
• Cultural Heritage Gallery of Radom
• Skansen in Radom www

Education

Radom is home to about 20 schools of higher education:

• Instytut Teologiczny Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Radomiu - department of theology
• Kolegium Nauczycielskie - www
• Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych - www
• Niepubliczne Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych - www
• Niepubliczne Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych TWP - www
• Radom Technical University (Politechnika Radomska) - www
• University College of Environmental Sciences (Prywatna Wyższa Szkoła Ochrony Środowiska) - www
• Radomska Szkoła Zarządzania
• Warsaw Agricultural University - department in Radom (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie)
• College of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Kolegium licencjackie Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej) - www
• Warsaw University - department in Radom (Uniwersytet Warszawski)- www www
• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University - department in Radom (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej) - www
• Wyższa Inżynierska Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa i Organizacji Pracy - www
• Higher Business College (Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu) - www
• Higher Financial and Banking College (Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Bankowości) - www
• Higher Merchant College (Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa) - www
• Higher Seminary (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne) - www
• Higher Journalis College (Wyższa Szkoła Dziennikarska) - www
• Zespół Szkół Medycznych - www

Other

At the Western part of Radom, there is a facility for commercial LF transmission (not broadcasting), the Radom longwave transmitter.

Sports

• Radomiak Radom - men's football team, founded in 1910, currently playing in 3rd league.
• Jadar Radom - men's volleyball team, founded in 1921, currently playing in extraleague.
• Broń Radom - men's football team, founded in 1926, currently in 4th league.
• RoSa Sport Radom - men's basketball team, founded in 2004, currently in 2nd league.

Politics

Radom constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Radom constituency

• Ewa Kopacz (PO)
• Dariusz Bąk (PIS)
• Mirosław Maliszewski (PSL)
• Czesław Czechyra (PO)
• Marek Suski (PIS)
• Marek Wikiński (SLD),
• Radosław Witkowski (PO)
• Krzysztof Sońta (PIS)

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Radom is twinned with:^[2]

Notable people

Notable people who have been born, have lived or have worked in Radom:

See also

• Wedding celebrations in the Radom region

References

Notes

External links

• (English) Official web page of Radom in English
• (Polish) Official web page of Radom in Polish
• (Polish) Radom Culture
• (Polish) Radom photo gallery

• Media related to Radom at Wikimedia Commons
•  "Radom". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. 

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Coordinates: 51°24′N 21°10′E / 51.4°N 21.167°E / 51.4; 21.167

From Wikitravel

Radom [1] is a city in Poland.

Get in

By plane

Only military airport. No public flights.

By boat

None suitable rivers.

• Skansen
• Gothic Parish Church
• Radom Museum
• Jacek Malczewski Museum, Rynek 11, Phone: +48 48 362 43 29, (malczewski@muzeum.edu.pl), [2] (Polish).

• Radom Air Show, is a biannual air show with the next festival scheduled for the last weekend in August 2007.
• Cinema Helios, Poniatowskiego 5, Phone: +48 48 362 80 50, [3]
• Cinema Hel, Żeromskiego 47, Phone: +48 48 362 54 35, [4]

Eat

Budget

At the M-1 Mall (M-Jeden in Polish) there is a small food court with a McDonald's, and a KFC, as well as a pretty good sit down restaurant called Sphinx. There are a few other McDonald's restaurants in town.

• Hotel Gromada, ul. Narutowicza 9, Phone: +48 48 368 91 00, (radomhotel.centrum@gromada.pl), [5]. Be sure to write down the telephone number and address as there is another hotel owned by the same company that operates another hotel in Radom by the same name. The one listed here is closer to the train station. The other Hotel Gromada is a little further from the train station but is near a nice pond that has a walking path around it. There is also a pretty good restaurant at this Gromada.
• Hotel Glass, ul. Prażmowskiego 17, Phone: +48 48 340 25 85, [6].
• Hotel Poniatowski Radom [7] tel: 48-48 384 01 91

• Hotel „Aviator” ****

ul. Malczewskiego 18 Radom tel. (048) 362-88-88 www.aviatorhotel.com.pl

• Hotel „Centralny Ośrodek Szkolenia Maszynistów” **

ul. Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego 1 Radom tel. (048) 369-95-90

• Hotel „E7” *

ul. Czarnieckiego 70 Radom tel. (048) 384-77-54 tel. kom. 0 505-051-046 www.hotele7.radom.pl

• Hotel „Europejski” ***

ul. Słowackiego 11 Radom tel. (048) 340-00-21 www.hoteleuropejski.radom.pl

Hotel „Gromada” *** ul. Bulwarowa 15 Radom tel. (048) 330-85-86 www.gromada.pl

• Hotel „Gromada” ***

ul. Narutowicza 9 Radom tel. (048) 368-91-00 www.gromada.pl

• Hotel „Gryf” ***

ul. Puławska 8 Radom tel. (048) 365-54 05, (048) 365-54-06, (048) 365-54-07 www.hotelgryf.radom.pl

• Hotel „Iskra” **

ul. Planty 4 Radom tel. (048) 363-87-45 www.hoteliskra.radom.pl

• Hotel „TM” **

ul. marsz. F. Focha 12 Radom tel. (048) 363-27-08

Contact

Phone

The Radom area code is 48, which is the same as the Polish country code. To dial a phone number from Radom you will have to dial +48 48 X from outside the country.

• Warsaw

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrad̪ɔm/

Proper noun

Radom m.

1. City in central Poland in the Masovian Voivodeship.

Declension

Derived terms

• radomianin m., radomianka f.
• adjective: radomski