Szamotuły
Szamotuły [ʂamɔˈtuwɨ] (German: Samter) is a town in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) northwest of the centre of Poznań. It is the seat of Szamotuły County and of the smaller administrative district Gmina Szamotuły. The population was 19,090 in 2011.
Szamotuły | |
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Szamotuły Castle seen from a park | |
Flag Coat of arms | |
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Coordinates: 52°36′N 16°35′E | |
Country | |
Voivodeship | |
County | Szamotuły County |
Gmina | Gmina Szamotuły |
Area | |
• Total | 10.11 km2 (3.90 sq mi) |
Elevation | 115 m (377 ft) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 19,090 |
• Density | 1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi) |
Postal code | 64-500 |
Website | http://www.szamotuly.pl |
Notable people
- Wacław z Szamotuł (1520s-1560s), composer and writer
- John Jonston (1603-1675), natural scientist and historian
- Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917), composer and music educator
- Hans Georg Friedrich Groß (1860-1924), German balloonist and airship constructor
- Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924), composer and pianist
- Alexander Hollaender (1898–1986), scientist
- Maksymilian Ciężki (1899-1951), cryptographer
- Ernst Wellmann (1904–1970), Wehrmacht officer
- Małgorzata Braunek (1947-2014), actress
- Siegmund Lubszinski (Lubin) (1841-1923), American film pioneer, the first Jewish "Movie Mogul."
International relations
Twin towns – Sister cities
Szamotuły is twinned with:
gollark: <@509849474647064576>
gollark: ```Y'allEver hear of a cool language?It goes a little likefibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)Oh, you didn't understand that?ExactlyHaskell is the worstWorse than this verseIf you use Haskell, reverseI just rhymed reverse with verseHaskell is still worse than this verseThose who use Haskell, let me enlighten youHaskell is the only language that can't shine a light on youWhy? Because that's IO (oh)Haskell has a successor functionWhat a coincidence, because it sucksLet me introduce you to my friend FoopyFoopy's my own language, it's everything Haskell couldn't doHey, Foopy, my main man?Foopy: Yeah, dude?You suck too!Foopy is impossible to useFunctional programming's like boozeWith objects you can't loseHaskell's the worst, Foopy's the worst, OOP is the wayFP's the worstWorse than this verseIf you use FP, reverseI just rhymed reverse with verseFP is still worse than this verseLemme introduce some morePython, Rust, Ruby, these aren't choresRust's the ultimate high-level languageIt's taking the world by stormPython and Ruby are your Swiss army knivesAlways there when you need them mostThese languages are beautiful in their simplicityBeautiful in their complexityHaskell only has complexityUgly complexityHard to use, hard to learnHaskell is the worstWorse than this verseIf you use Haskell, reverseI just rhymed reverse with verseHaskell is still worse than this verse```From the Esolangs server.
gollark: I mean, it's probably right, but not much use.
gollark: Kind of?
gollark: Er... maybe?
References
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