Tarnowskie Gory

Tarnowskie Gory is a town in Silesia located within the Silesian Highlands near Katowice. On the south it borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union megalopolis, greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by way of about 5,294,000 human beings. The populace of the metropolis is 60,975. As of 1999, part of Silesian Voivodeship, formerly Katowice Voivodeship. The earliest settlements around Tarnowskie Gory date back to over 20,000 years BC. Traces of the Upper Paleolithic population have been discovered in village of Rybna, inside present day town borders.

During the Bronze Age people lived along the banks of river Stola. Stola or Stola, name derived from German Stollenwasser Adit water in advance this river changed into referred to as Rybna derived from a Polish word for fish, their equipment, rings and guns were excavated here, courting from among the 8th and 5^th centuries BC. Silver, lead and zinc had been bountiful in those grounds and the proof of an early steel production dates returned to as a minimum 3^rd century AD. Repty Slaskie, a village, now inside Tarnowskie Gory's town limits, became mentioned in an authentic papal file dating from September 12, 1201.