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Bielsko County is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat ) in Silesian Voivodeship , southern ___MASK70___ . It came into being on January 1 , 1999 , as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998 . Its administrative seat is the city of Bielsko - Biaa , although the city is not part of the county ( it constitutes a separate city county ). The county contains three towns : Czechowice - Dziedzice , north - west of Bielsko - Biaa , Szczyrk , south of Bielsko - Biaa , and Wilamowice , north - east of Bielsko - Biaa . The ___MASK31___ , also known as the Second Commonwealth of ___MASK70___ or interwar ___MASK70___ , refers to the country of ___MASK70___ between the First and Second World Wars ( 1918  1939 ). Officially known as the Republic of ___MASK70___ or the Commonwealth of ___MASK70___ , the Polish state was recreated in 1918 , in the aftermath of World War I . When , after several regional conflicts , the borders of the state were fixed in 1922 , ___MASK70___ ' s neighbours were Czechoslovakia , Germany , the Free City of Danzig , Lithuania , Latvia , Romania and the Soviet Union . It had access to the Baltic Sea via a short strip of coastline either side of the city of Gdynia . Between March and August 1939 , ___MASK70___ also shared a border with the then - Hungarian governorate of Subcarpathia . Despite internal and external pressures , it continued to exist until 1939 , when ___MASK70___ was invaded by Nazi Germany , the Soviet Union and the Slovak Republic , marking the beginning of World War II in Europe . The Second Republic was significantly different in territory to the current Polish state . It included substantially more territory in the east and less in the west . Wilamowice ( Wymysorys : " Wymysoü ") is a small town in southern ___MASK70___ , situated in the Bielsko County , Silesian Voivodeship ( since 1999 , previously in Bielsko - Biaa Voivodeship , 1975  1998 ). The endangered language of Wymysorys is spoken here by about 70 native speakers , the majority of them elderly . The language was the main one of the town until the early communist period ( 1945  1956 ), when authorities repressed it . The inhabitants identifying themselves with the original culture are Wilamowiczanie . An upper house , sometimes called a Senate , is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature ( or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature ), the other chamber being the lower house . The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller , and often has more restricted power , than the lower house . Examples of upper houses in countries include the UK ' s House of Lords , ___MASK14___ ' s Senate , India ' s Rajya Sabha , Russia ' s Federation Council , Ireland ' s Seanad , Germany ' s Bundesrat and the United States Senate . Katowice (, officially Miasto Katowice ) is a city in southwestern ___MASK70___ and the center of the Silesian Metropolis , with a population of 299 , 910 . Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) is a social - democratic political party in ___MASK70___ . It was formed in 1991 as an electoral alliance of centre - left parties , and became a single party on 15 April 1999 . It has always been considered a post - communist party . It has no parliamentary representation as of the 2015 parliamentary election . Bielsko - Biala Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in ___MASK70___ from 1975 to 1998 , superseded by Silesian Voivodeship and Lesser ___MASK70___ Voivodeship . Its capital city was Bielsko - Biaa . The Silesian Voivodeship , or Silesia Province , is a voivodeship , or province , in southern ___MASK70___ , centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ("), with Katowice serving as its capital . ___MASK70___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK70___ , is a country in Central Europe , situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges ( the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ) in the south . Bordered by Germany to the west ; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south ; Ukraine and Belarus to the east ; and the Baltic Sea , Kaliningrad Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) and Lithuania to the north . The total area of ___MASK70___ is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe . With a population of over 38 . 5 million people , ___MASK70___ is the 34th most populous country in the world , the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union . ___MASK70___ is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , and its capital and largest city is Warsaw . Other metropolises include Kraków , Wrocaw , Pozna , Gdask and Szczecin . Zbyszek Zaborowski ( born February 26 , 1958 in Wilamowice ) is a Polish politician . He was elected to Sejm on September 25 , 2005 getting 12643 votes in 31 Katowice district , candidating from Democratic Left Alliance list . He was also a member of Sejm 1993 - 1997 , Sejm 1997 - 2001 , and Sejm 2001 - 2005 . The Sejm of the Republic of ___MASK70___ is the lower house of the Polish parliament . It consists of 460 deputies ( posowie , literally " envoys ", in Polish ) elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the " Marshal of the " Sejm " of the Republic of ___MASK70___ " (" Marszaek Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej "). In the Kingdom of ___MASK70___ , "" Sejm "" referred to the entire three - chamber parliament of ___MASK70___ , comprising the lower house ( the Chamber of Envoys ), the upper house ( the Senate ; Polish : " Senat ") and the King . It was thus a three - estate parliament . Since the Second Polish Republic ( 1918  1939 ), "" Sejm "" has referred only to the lower house of the parliament ; the upper house is called the " Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej " (" Senate of the Republic of ___MASK70___ ").