Zory

Zory is a town and metropolis county in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland with 58,640 inhabitants. Previously it become in Katowice Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. It is placed within the ancient Upper Silesia vicinity about 30 kilometers southwest of Katowice. The settlement on the road from Cieszyn to Krakow became first stated in a 1258 deed. Zory is one of the oldest towns in Silesia, it becomes granted city rights according to Magdeburg Law on 24 February 1272 by means of Duke Wladyslaw of Opole. It remained a part of the Upper Silesian Duchy of Opole, considering the fact that 1327 a Bohemian fief, till in 1532 it turned into integrated into the Lands of the Bohemian Crown.

After the First Silesian War it changed into annexed through Prussia in 1742. In the 18^th century it changed into centre of fabric production, later of steel and machining enterprise. Upon the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, Sohrau fell to the Silesian Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic, although 69.4% of the citizens had voted for Germany. Occupied by Nazi Germany throughout the 1939 Invasion of Poland, it became re-conquered within the Vistula Oder Offensive of the Red Army in 1945 and the German population became expelled.