Byczyna

Infobox Settlement
name = Byczyna

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image_shield = POL Byczyna COA.svg
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Opole
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Kluczbork
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Byczyna
area_total_km2 = 5.79
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 3677
population_density_km2 = auto
latd = 51 | latm = 7 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 18 | longm = 13 | longs = | longEW = E
elevation_m = 197
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 46-220
website = http://www.byczyna.pl

Byczyna [IPA-pl|b|y|'|cz|y|n|a] ( _de. Pitschen) is a town in Kluczbork County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,708 inhabitants (2004).

The town, located just north of Kluczbork in Upper Silesia, was the setting of the Battle of Byczyna between Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria, who was elected as king of Poland, and Sigismund of Lithuania, on January 24 1588.

External links

* [http://www.library.ucla.edu/yrl/reference/maps/blaeu/silesia_dvcatvs.jpgMap of Silesia 1600, Pitschen north of Creuzburg]

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