Radom

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Radom (pronounce: ) is a city in central Poland with 228,695 inhabitants (2003). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Radom Voivodship (1975-1998), 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.

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It is home to the annual Radom Air Show - the greatest and most attended air show in Poland organized around September each year. "Radom" is also the popular unofficial name for a semiautomatic 9mm Parabellum pistol of Polish design (the Model 35/ViS-35) designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypinski (hence the designation "ViS") which had been in production from 1935-45 at the national arsenal located in the city.

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Masovian Voivodship: The Masovian Voivodship (in Polish wojew?dztwo mazowieckie) is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish administrative regions or voivodships created in 1999. It covers an area of 35,598 km? in...

Radom Voivodship: Radom Voivodship (Polish: wojew?dztwo radomskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975–1998, superseded by Masovian Voivodship. Its capital city was Radom....

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