Soła
The Soła is a river in southern Poland, a right tributary of the Vistula. The Soła originates in the Western Beskids mountain range near the border with Slovakia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the Beskides, Poland
- Also known as: “Sola” and “Soła River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jewish Center and Oświęcim Castle.
Jewish Center
Museum
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The Auschwitz Jewish Center is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to preserve the memory of the Jewish community of the city of Oświęcim and educate about the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and other prejudices and intolerance.
Oświęcim Castle
Museum
Photo: Jacek Daczyński, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oświęcim Castle is a castle raised in the Medieval Ages on the top of a hill, on the right bank of the River Soła in Oświęcim. The castle comprises a thirteenth-century early-Gothic defence tower covered by a roof, a two-floor building built around a courtyard and additional connections between the wings built in 1929–31.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bobrek and Oświęcim.
Bobrek
Village
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Bobrek is a village located adjacent to the city of Oświęcim, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. During the Second World War, Nazi Germany operated a concentration camp at Bobrek.
Oświęcim
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Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków. It's better known by its German name of Auschwitz, and from 1940 to 1945 over a million people, mostly Jews, were slain in the nearby camps.
Babice
Village
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Babice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Babice is situated 2½ km west of Soła.
Soła
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Soła” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սոլա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Soła”
- Azerbaijani: “Sola çayı”
- Belarusian: “Сола”
- Catalan: “Soła”
- Cebuano: “Soła”
- Chinese: “索瓦河”
- Czech: “Soła”
- Danish: “Soła”
- Dutch: “Soła”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوا”
- Esperanto: “Soła”
- Estonian: “Soła”
- French: “Soła”
- German: “Soła”
- Greek: “Σόουα”
- Hebrew: “סולה”
- Hungarian: “Soła”
- Irish: “Soła”
- Italian: “Soła”
- Korean: “소와강”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soła”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Soła”
- Norwegian: “Soła”
- Polish: “Soła”
- Russian: “Сола”
- Spanish: “Soła”
- Swedish: “Soła”
- Turkish: “Soła Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Сола”
- Venetian: “Fiume Soła”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Przemsza and Monowitz concentration camp.
Małopolskie: Must-Visit Destinations
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