At a time when the Basin stood Dabrowski's current boundaries include two large counties - Będzin and Olkusz. They both were in the Russian zone, and after regaining independence by Poland went to the province of Kielce. On today's maps are the following counties: Będzin, Zawiercie, Myszkowski and Olkusz and community Ożarowice the area. tarnogórskiego, three municipal district of Cracow (Sułoszowa, Jerzmanowice and rock) and some local authorities and the Senile House Poland from the district of Czestochowa.
Dabrowski Basin is still primarily Sosnowiec, Dabrowa top cover., Bedzin, Czeladź and community area. Będzin - an area inhabited by approximately 500,000 inhabitants. Historically, the region included two former dąbrowski great counties - and Olkusz Będzin.
Despite historic ties, out of many inhabitants of the earth and the Zawiercie Olkuska no longer identified with the region Dąbrowa. Contributed to this policy and administrative division in the PRL and the fact that indigenous Basin Dabrowski was associated with the coal industry, which of the sites did not exist. Similar processes have taken place in Upper Silesia, with which it has already identified many of the inhabitants of Cieszyn Silesia and Opole region.
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Based on the facts and feelings of ordinary people can say that today's Basin is primarily Dabrowski Sosnowiec, Dabrowa Będzin Mining and the county. Green spaces such as the county Będzin Psary community, were and are an integral part of the Basin, also in the minds of the inhabitants of these municipalities, but the further away from Dabrowa and dzin this identification with the region of weaker. It is clear that, without formally existing associations, institutions and administrative structures (local government) bonds with a geographically more remote villages gradually disappear. Is also weaker and weaker as the effects of ZD the industrial center of Jurassic communes, as well as somewhat reduced its natural sphere of influence .
are not without fault, of course, authorities from Sosnowiec and Dabrowa, who instead rely Association of Cities and Towns ZD, chose the path of integration with GS through the rustic associations. Contributed to the disappearance of identity and identification with the region are also journalists. People like success and positive connotations, and because of the Dabrowa Basin over the past decade, said Katowice media usually quite hostile tone (or at all), so are the effects of in terms of lower identification with the region, particularly in the more distant from the town of Dabrowa.
Jaworzno
City is not and never has been part of the Dąbrowa Basin. Contributed to the partitions (Jaworzno-Austrian-Russian Sosnowiec) and although the structure of industry was and is similar to the industry Dabrowski, however this caused the education of a greater sense of regional ties. Jaworzno Basin Dabrowski and now unites mainly common constituency, the Diocese of Sosnowiec borders, few organizations economic and pre-Partition history.
During the existence of a province. Katowice in Silesia in the local media could be found with the naming Basin also cities such as whether Chrzanów Libin. Evidently, some journalists mitzvah dilemma which determine the use of these arrived in 1975 from the province. Krakow city. So there was a habit that everything in the former Katowice nieśląskie sometimes called Basin (in most cases but they were referred to simply as "Silesia"). Word for Malopolska the cities of the former province of Malopolska in TV Katowice Katowice in Upper Silesia, and other media can not never appeared.
Czestochowa - Kielce, Poland - Dąbrowa
Historically Częstochowa Dąbrowa the Earth and Krakow, and Kielce - Earth Sandomierz. For centuries, these were separate administrative units. During the interwar period when Poland regained independence, Dabrowa, Czestochowa, and Olkusz were, however, in the province. Kielce, not Krakow. This is because the first region were created in the former Russian partition, and also because then existing (fixed) differences in legal regulations in the areas of individual partitions. In Czestochowa, due to its geographical location is considered an option for the future establishment of a common region of Kielce (Staropolskie). For the Dąbrowa Basin region to accede to such a reality does not make much sense after all, would be history and territorial proximity clearly show that the province is a better option. Lesser in which the district is already Olkusz. After all, in the minds of many people zakodowało that the Basin has some strong ties with Kielce, and these compounds are suddenly 20 years common in the region over 1000 years history of our land (of course if you do not expect more - Malopolska and episodes from the time of the partitioning). Personally I have nothing to Kielce and refer to this city with sympathy, but ZD in the province. Kielce it would be out completely irrational and unnatural selection.
Basin Dabrowski vs. Upper Silesia, the names and history
For centuries, the area around Będzin and Bytom look identical - forests, a few larger cities, troubled border region, and what not to say, after all, rather a province.
Is castle built in Bedzin "Zagłębiacy? Does contemporary Będzin admits to its history, the more distant than 150 years ago ... It's hard being here is in the region "Silesian".
Upper Silesia as a region has identified only in the mid-fifteenth century (first mention), and its capital was at Opole. Today's Classifieds is a young city, and like Sosnowiec created "on carbon." It is peculiar that the people of Katowice very happily go back to the old story, they identify of Opole, Wrocław and Silesia around, while people from Dabrowa, Sosnowiec, Bedzin, often have lost the identification with Krakow and Malopolska. As if this was not their history and their heritage.
Basin Dabrowski term first appeared in the mid-nineteenth century. We can speculate what would happen if someone got the idea to developing the mining and industrial settlements and cities around the Bytom Basin Bytomskie call. Probably both, "Basin" would then have the same long history. Or you can speculate what would happen if instead of the name Dabrowski Basin popularized the term Western Malopolska and how that has affected the regional identity is today the world's population Będzin.
The people make up names and as you can see they are very important in shaping regional identity. Silesians know this well for years and specialize in the naming of all the institutions around Katowice "Silesian". Exiting with those names outside the historical Silesia, however, is not acceptable.
Identity malone
Dabrowskie identity in the region malone is as yet quite shallow, but every year you will see progress on this issue. The PRL-contemporary authorities did much to the identity of the Basin Dabrowski take that time and politics has brought some results. Currently, the reverse process of what was indeed inevitable, because people by nature are looking for information about the past of where they live. Interestingly enough - today the media type of TV Katowice communist tradition continue without specifying whether the city has never Jaworzno Dąbrowa Basin as part of Malopolska. They do so probably for fear that an increase in the identification of those Malopolska cities will lead to a breakdown of the current province.
In Galicia and in the Mazowsze region that has always belonged to the Polish and it's hard to even imagine our country without any of these areas, the degree of identification with their own region is generally much weaker than in regions such as Silesia. People are happy here mainly Poles, and later residents of the cities (or subregions), and only recently reborn regional identity within the meaning of historical districts. Contributes to the current administrative divisions and names of provinces, which, contrary to appearances are very important for this process.
Perceptions in Poland
Dabrowski Basin region is now forgotten. This name has disappeared completely from the national media already, and is used almost exclusively locally. For most Poles, cities such as Bedzin, Dabrowa, Sosnowiec ... it just Silesia. It often happens that someone visiting surprised that you do not hear here Silesian dialect. The trends which currently exist in the region "Silesian" (also among the local governments of cities Basin) consisting of seizing and hiding differences between this region and the GS, but rather indicates that in the coming years (if at all ever) perception Dąbrowa Basin by the Polish population does not change.
