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Left to right: Municipal Building  • Bernardine Monastery and Church  • Constitution of 3 May Square  • St. Mary’s Cathedral  • Moniuszko St  • Piłsudski St  •

Left to right: Municipal Building  • Bernardine Monastery and Church  • Constitution of 3 May Square  • St. Mary’s Cathedral  • Moniuszko St  • Piłsudski St  •
Flag of Radom
Flag
 Coat of arms of Radom
Coat of arms
Radom is located in Masovian Voivodeship
Radom
Radom
Location in Masovian Voivodeship
Radom is located in Poland
Radom
Radom
Location in Poland
Radom is located in Europe
Radom
Radom
Location in Europe
Country  Poland
Voivodeship  Masovian
County city county
Established 14th century
Town rights 1364
Area
 • City 111.71 km2 (43.13 sq mi)
Population
 (31 December 2018)
 • City 213,029 Decrease (14th)
 • Metro
371,000
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
26-600 to 26-618
Area code(s) +48 48
Car plates WR
Website http://www.radom.pl
Radom komisja wojewódzka
The Classicist Sandomierz Palace

Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of Poland's capital, Warsaw, on the Mleczna River, in (as of 1999) the Masovian Voivodeship, having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship (1975–1998). Despite being part of the Masovian Voivodeship, the city historically belongs to Lesser Poland. For centuries, Radom was part of the Sandomierz Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland and the later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was an important center of administration, having served as seat of the Crown Council. The Pact of Vilnius and Radom was signed there in 1401, and the Nihil novi and Łaski's Statute were adopted by the Sejm at Radom's Royal Castle in 1505. In 1976, it was a center of anti Communist street protests. Radom is the fourteenth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the voivodeship with a population of 213,029 as of 2018, down from 221,066 in 2011.

The city is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and best-attended air show in Poland, held during the last weekend of August. "Radom" is also the popular unofficial name for a semiautomatic 9 mm Para pistol of Polish design (the Model 35/ViS-35) which was produced from 1935 to 1944 at the national arsenal located in the city, under the directorship of Kazimierz Ołdakowski, after whom a square in Radom is named. The Łucznik Arms Factory (still located in Radom) continues to produce modern military firearms.

The international Radom Jazz Festival and the International Gombrowicz Theater Festival are held in the city.

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  • Saint Wenceslaus church in Radom 01

    Saint Wenceslaus church, the city's oldest church

  • POL Radom castle Nihil novi

    Plaque at the Radom Castle commemorating the adoption of the Nihil novi act in Radom in 1505

  • Kolegium Pijarow in Radom 1864

    Piarist College in the 19th century

  • Radom plany-15

    City map from 1919

  • Radom była siedziba NKWD

    Former seat of the Gestapo and NKVD during the occupation

  • Radom, Pomnik Ofiar Faszyzmu - fotopolska.eu (305799)

    Monument and cemetery in Firlej where the Germans murdered around 15,000 Poles and Jews

  • Plac Konstytucji w Radomiu 2

    Radom in the 1970s

  • Radom - Katedra Opieki NMP7

    Radom Cathedral

  • Budynek dawnego Towarzystwa Kredytowego Ziemskiego nocą

    Building of the former Land Credit Society

  • Market Square in Radom 02

    Jacek Malczewski Museum and Polish Legions monument

  • PLK Jakub Zalewski Rosa Radom 2

    Polish Basketball League match between Rosa Radom and Trefl Sopot in Radom in 2014

  • Radom Transport3

    Transport in Radom

  • Faculty of Economics of Technical University of Radom

    Radom University

  • Radom.Piłsudskiego 12 01

    Public Library

  • PGZ Radom Poland

    Headquarters of Polish Armaments Group

  • MSBS-5,56

    MSBS rifle from Łucznik Arms Factory

  • Pomnik Jana Kochanowskiego 265868 Fotopolska-Eu2

    Jan Kochanowski monument

  • Fotopolska 436391(2)

    Jacek Malczewski monument

  • Radom airport terminal

    Radom Airport

  • Sol130

    Bus Solaris Urbino 12

  • Dworzec Radom train station

    Main railway station

  • Radom bike

    Biking in Radom

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Radom para niños

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