Bielsko-Biawa (PL)
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Bielsko-Biała [ˈbʲɛlskɔ ˈbʲawa] (Czech: Bílsko-Bělá; German: Bielitz-Biala) is a city (172,030 inhabitants end 2016) in Southern Poland. The city is a major industrial (particularly automotive), transport and tourism hub. Neighbouring the Beskid Mountains to the south, Bielsko-Biała is composed of two former cities on opposite banks of the Biała River, Silesian Bielsko and Lesser Poland's Biała, merged in 1951. Historically, in the Austrian Galicia crownland.
Postmark in Poland before 1951
Postmarks in Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)
Postmarks in Austrian Empire Galicia province
The BIALA post office opened before 1850, seat of a 'Bezirkshauptmannschaft in Austrian Galicia.