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Zabrze

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Zab·rze  (zäbzh)
A city of south-central Poland west of Katowice. Founded in the 13th century, it passed to Prussia in 1742 and was ceded to Poland in 1945. Population: 191,000.
Zabrze (Polish) [ˈzabʒɛ]
n
(Placename) a city in SW Poland: a Prussian and German town from 1742 until 1945, when it passed to Poland; industrial centre in a coal-mining region. Pop.: 200 177 (1999 est.) German name Hindenburg
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Noun1.Zabrze - an industrial city in southern Poland
Poland, Polska, Republic of Poland - a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II
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