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{{Short description|Place in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Mielec
| image_skyline = {{multiple image
| border = infobox
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| perrow = 1/2
| image1 = Mielec, Rynek (HB1).jpg{{!}}Market Square
| image2 = PL-PK Mielec, kościół św. Marka 2014-03-30--17-23-10-001.jpg{{!}}St. Mark
| image3 = Mielec, Kamienica Dębickich (HB1).jpg{{!}}Mickiewicz Street
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| image_caption = Clockwise: Market Square, Mickiewicz Street, Saint Mark's Church
| image_flag = POL Mielec flag.svg
| image_shield = POL Mielec COA.svg
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Subcarpathian Voivodeship|Subcarpathian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Mielec County|Mielec]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = Mielec <small>(urban gmina)</small>
| leader_title = City mayor
| leader_name = Radosław Swół
| established_title = First mentioned
| established_date = 1229
| established_title3 = Town rights
| established_date3 = 1470
| area_total_km2 = 47.36
| population_as_of = 31 December 2021
| population_total = 59509 {{decrease}}<ref name="population">{{cite web|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka|title=Local Data Bank|access-date=17 August 2022|publisher=Statistics Poland}} Data for territorial unit 1811011.</ref>
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|50|17|N|21|26|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 39-300 to 39-303, 39-323
| area_code = +48 17
| blank_name = [[Vehicle registration plates of Poland|Car plates]]
| blank_info = RMI
| website = http://www.mielec.pl
| official_name = 
}}
'''Mielec''' {{IPAc-pl|AUD|Pl-Mielec.ogg|'|m|J|e|l|e|c}} ({{langx|yi|מעליץ-Melitz}}) is the largest city and [[County seat|seat]] of [[Mielec County]], located within the [[Subcarpathian Voivodeship]] in south-eastern [[Poland]].{{TERYT}} The population of Mielec in December 2021 was 59,509.<ref name="population" />

Mielec is an industrial center, with technical and IT schools, craft schools and colleges (providing [[bachelor's degree]] and [[master's degree]] in several fields of study. Postgraduate studies are also available - e.g. [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]]).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki i Zarządzania w Krakowie|url=http://wsgiz.mielec.pl/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=wsgiz.mielec.pl}}</ref> The city lies within the [[Special Economic Zone Euro-Park Mielec]]<ref>{{Citation|title=Specjalna Strefa Ekonomiczna Euro-Park Mielec|date=2019-02-25|url=https://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specjalna_Strefa_Ekonomiczna_Euro-Park_Mielec&oldid=56015722|work=Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia|language=pl|access-date=2020-01-14}}</ref> with access to [[Mielec Airport]] and railway. About {{convert|15|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north of Mielec runs [[PKP Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa|LHS]] railway - The transshipment terminal in [[Wola Baranowska]] enables the exchange of [[cargo]] between the broad gauge and standard gauge railways and trucks. About {{convert|20|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of Mielec runs the [[A4 autostrada (Poland)|A4 motorway]]. Moreover, the city of Mielec supports a recognizable soccer team - [[Stal Mielec]].

The motto of the city is ''Here wings spread!''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mielec.pl/en/|title=Mielec city website}}</ref> in reference to many successful domestic and foreign investments.

== History ==
===Early history===
[[File:PL-Mielec, bazylika św. Mateusza 2013-09-07--18-09-09-001.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Baroque in Poland|Baroque]] Minor Basilica of St. Matthew]]
The first mention of a place called Mielec occurs in the thirteenth century in the 1229 bull of [[Pope Gregory IX]]. In the second half of the fourteenth century, "Mielecka" was mentioned in a list of parishes. The city of Mielec, part of [[Sandomierz Voivodeship]] and [[Lesser Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Lesser Poland Province]] of the Kingdom of Poland, was founded on 17 March 1457, when [[Casimir IV Jagiellon|King Casimir IV]] granted a charter to Jan Mielecki for the establishment of a city under the name of Nowy Targ. For unknown reasons Jan Mielecki did not go on to found the city; it was eventually established by his two sons, Jan and Bernardyn, by an Act of 18 December 1470. The [[Mielecki family]] owned the town of Mielec until the last of the Mieleckis died in 1771. Under their rule, there was intensive development of craft industries. In 1522, the first [[guild]] was founded. This was the [[blacksmith]]s' guild. It was followed by guilds of [[tailor]]s, cobblers, [[pottery|potters]], spinners, and weavers.

The next owners of Mielec were the [[Ossolinski]] and [[House of Morsztyn|Morsztyn]] families. In 1775, Anna Ossilińska married Jan Pieniążek, bringing as a dowry her share of part of the city. The next owner was Ignacy Suchorzewski, who married Pieniążek's daughter Paulina. Suchorzewski sold Mielec's property to Ludwik Starzeński in 1847, who then disposed of it ten years later to a Jewish family named Gross. The last owner of Mielec was the [[Oborski]] family in 1891.
[[File:Maciej Bogusz Stęczyński, Mielec 1847.jpg|thumb|left|Mielec in 1847 by Maciej Bogusz Stęczyński]]

In 1853, the county town of Mielec governed an area in which there were 106 settlements and 91 castral municipalities. In 1892, on Kosciuszko Street a new City Council building and police barracks were built. The development of the county town was interrupted by a huge fire, which destroyed three quarters of the city. This catastrophe caused the city to apply for a state loan of 12 crowns, the receipt of which led to the rapid development of the city. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the market place in Mielec was surrounded by brick houses, and in 1902, a courthouse was built. In 1912, a gymnasium (or academic high school) and the office of County Council were established and buildings constructed to house them.

[[World War I]] caused much damage to the infrastructure and economy of city of Mielec and the county.

===Interwar period===
In the [[interwar years]] many streets were paved with cobbles. In addition, a private power plant, various craft workshops, and retail businesses were established. In 1934, the Mielec region suffered a huge flood that destroyed more than 11,000 households. The house and [[photographic studio]] of the early 20th-century Polish photographer {{interlanguage link|August Jaderny|pl|display=1}} was a meeting place of the local artistic community in the interbellum.<ref name=jad>{{cite web|url=https://www.mielec.pl/mielec/warto-zwiedzic/jadernowka/|title="Jadernówka"|website=Mielec.pl|access-date=10 September 2020|language=pl}}</ref>

[[File:Mielec rynek 1932.jpg|thumb|left|Mielec in 1932]]
Mielec's economy has been based for the last 70 years around a single industrial enterprise, which transformed the city and increased its population sixfold. This process began in the 1930s, when Poland launched a significant expansion of its [[arms industry|armaments industry]], focused on building factories in the newly created [[Central Industrial Region (Poland)|Central Industrial Region]] (Polish: Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy, abbreviated COP). In 1936, a state-owned factory making airplane chassis was established (State Aviation Works - Airframe Fakcory No. 2) on the outskirts of the town, an area then known as Cyranka. The factory started to build a new bomber, the PZL P-37 or "Łoś" (English: "Moose"). Additionally, in the years 1937-1939 a large aviation factory belonging to the [[Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze|PZL]] company was set up. This new manufacturing industry necessitated the development of residential housing for factory workers and management personnel.

===World War II===
[[File:Pomnik Armii Krajowej w Mielcu, 2014.JPG|thumb|[[Home Army]] monument]]
After the outbreak of [[World War II]], the city and the airplane company fell into the hands of the German invaders. The period of [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation]] lasted from 9 September 1939 to 6 August 1944 in Mielec. In the years of 1939–1944, the factory produced German bombers, and from 1943 also manufactured the fighter plane He–297. The Nazis staffed much of the factory with [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|slave labour]]. Initially, Jews from Mielec were enslaved in this [[Mielec forced labor camp|forced labor camp]]. In 1942, the Jewish population of Mielec was deported to [[death camps]], except for a few who remained as slave labour at the factory. Before the war, the Jewish population of Mielec was 2,800 out of a total population of 5,500. During the deportation, the factory hangars were the site of a mass murder of several hundred of Mielec's Jews, who were buried there. Subsequently, the factory used slave labour composed of Jews from other regions, [[prisoners of war]], political prisoners, etc. The [[Gestapo]] used Jewish informants, the so-called ''V-leute'' in region to penetrate underground resistance and denounce hiding Jews;special barracks were set up in labour camp near Mielec for Jewish informers and their families, who were granted special privileges. These informants operated between 1942 and 1943 when they were finally executed by Gestapo themselves.<ref>''The Holocaust and European Societies: Social Processes and Social Dynamics'' edited by Frank Bajohr, Andrea Löw ''The Pazifizierungsaktion as a Catalyst of Anti-Jewish Violence: A Study in the Social Dynamics of Fear Tomasz Frydel'' w page 163 Palgrave Macmillan; 2016</ref><ref>''Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity) edited by Timothy Williams, Susanne Buckley-Zistel'' ''Judenjagd: Reassessing the Role of Ordinary Poles as Perpetrators in the Holocaust'' Tomasz Frydel pages 193-194, 2018</ref> After the war, a monument was placed at the factory with a vague inscription typical of holocaust memorials during the Communist era: "To those employees of the Factory and the inhabitants from the area of both Polish and Jewish nationality murdered during World War II: A tribute from Mielec's Youth." Another mass grave of Jews with a monument may be found in one corner of the Mielec Catholic cemetery, where the victims of a 1941 Nazi atrocity were buried. During the German occupation, all of Mielec's Jewish institutions and the Jewish cemetery were destroyed, and also many of the Jewish homes.

During the German occupation, the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish underground resistance movement]] had important centers in the former house of photographer August Jaderny<ref name=jad/> and in the house of the Dębicki family. On March 29, 1943, a Polish underground partisan unit [[Jędrusie]] and the [[Home Army]] successfully carried out a daring attack on a German prison and liberated about 180 prisoners.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twojahistoria.pl/encyklopedia/kalendarium/co-sie-zdarzylo-29-marca/|title=29 marca. W 1943 roku oddział podziemia rozbił więzienie w Mielcu, uwalniając 180 osób|website=TwojaHistoria.pl|access-date=10 September 2020|language=pl}}</ref>

===Recent history===
After 1945, the factory became the largest aviation factory in Poland under the name [[PZL Mielec|WSK-Mielec]] "Wytwórnia Sprzętu Komunikacyjnego" (English: "Transport Equipment Manufacturing Centre"). This plant was the main source of employment for people in Mielec and surrounding communities. At first, the factory produced Soviet-designed planes under license. Thus, it was the primary production site of the widely used [[Antonov An-2|An-2]] [[Cargo aircraft|transport plane]]. It also manufactured Polish versions of the [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|MiG-15]] and [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17|MiG-17]]fighters. The factory also built planes designed in Poland such as the trainer plane [[PZL TS-11 Iskra|TS-11 Iskra]] used by Poland and India. It produced over 16,000 aircraft, which were mainly licensed for export to the USSR.

After 1989 and the economic changes due to the [[Revolutions of 1989|fall of communism]], factory orders declined and the plant encountered serious financial difficulties. It continued to produce successful aircraft types, but at much lower volumes than during [[Cold War|the Cold War]]. Self-government of Mielec Township was established in 1990.

The situation changed in 1995, due to the establishment of Poland's first Special [[Economy|Economic]] Zone EURO-PARK Mielec. In 1998 the aviation plant changed its name to [[PZL Mielec|PZL-Mielec]] "Polskie Zakłady Lotnicze" (English: "Polish Aviation Works"). In 2007 the factory was acquired by [[Sikorsky Aircraft|Sikorsky]] (in 2015 Sikorsky was acquired by Lockheed Martin), and was planned to be the main production site of the export version [[UH-60 Black Hawk]] helicopter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=205626 |title=Newest BLACK HAWK Helicopter to Demonstrate Capabilities in First Visit to Poland |publisher=Prnewswire.co.uk |access-date=2008-10-31}}</ref> Also Mielec has been the production site of sports-luxury car [[Leopard (car)|Leopard 6 Litre Roadster]].<ref>[http://www.leopardautomobile.com/ Leopard Automobile official website]</ref><ref>[http://www.leopard.se/history.htm History of Leopard Automobile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811093035/http://www.leopard.se/history.htm |date=2010-08-11 }}</ref>

== Historic sites ==
{{multiple image |align=right |caption_align=center |perrow=2 |total_width=390 
| image1 = PL - Mielec - Jadernówka - 2012-07-22--14-51-27-01.jpg
| image2 = PL-PK Mielec, pałacyk Oborskich 2013-10-13--16-23-49-001.jpg
| caption1 = Museum of the History of Photography
| caption2 = Oborski Mansion, Regional Museum
}}
* [[Baroque in Poland|Baroque]] [[Basilica|Minor Basilica]] of [[Matthew the Evangelist]];
* The [[Oborski family]] [[Manor house|manor-house]] from the 17th century, now housing the Regional Museum (''[[:pl:Muzeum Regionalne w Mielcu|Muzeum Regionalne]]'');
* The Jaderny house (''Jadernówka''), former house and photographic studio of the early 20th-century Polish photographer August Jaderny, meeting point of the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish underground resistance movement]] during World War II, now housing the Museum of the History of Photography;<ref name=jad/>
* The Dębicki house with a bust of [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]], hero of Polish and [[American Revolutionary War|American]] independence fights, also a focal point of the Polish underground resistance movement during World War II;
* Courthouse, site of an operation in which Polish partisans liberated 180 prisoners from the Germans in March 1943, during World War II;
* Musical School;
* Baroque [[Mark the Evangelist|St. Mark's]] church;
* Historic townhouses, villas, etc.;
* Numerous memorials, including multiple World War II memorials.

== Economy ==
From the beginning of [[Central Industrial Region (Poland)|Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy]], Mielec is commonly associated with [[PZL Mielec]] aviation factory.

The first [[Special Economic Zone]] in Poland, [[Special Economic Zone EURO-PARK MIELEC|SEZ EURO-PARK MIELEC]], has been founded in Mielec in 1995<ref name="MielecEuro">{{cite web|url=http://www.europark.com.pl/en/|title=Special Economic Zone EURO-PARK MIELEC|publisher=© 2009 Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A. Oddział w Mielcu ul. Partyzantów 25 39-300 Mielec|access-date=2009-06-10}}</ref> and has a positive impact on the economy of Mielec.<ref name="MielecEuro"/> In 2020 Mielec is close to enlarging the zone of [[Special Economic Zone EURO-PARK MIELEC|SEZ EURO-PARK MIELEC]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hej.mielec.pl/pl/12_biznes/680_strefa/51005_krok_do_powi_kszenia_strefy_w_mielcu_wa_na_opinia.html|title=Krok do powiększenia strefy w Mielcu: ważna opinia|website=hej.mielec.pl|language=pl|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref>

Other products manufactured in the city:

* consumer electronics
* furniture
* metal and electrotechnical components for the [[automotive industry]]
* other components for the production of cars
* [[golf cart]]s
* tempered glass
* handmade bicycle frames
* [[Geyer & Hosaja]] retread tires
* [[Husqvarna Motorcycles|Husqvarna]] petrol lawn mowers
* [[Fakro poland|Fakro]] roof windows
* PVC windows
* styrofoam
* chipboard, MDF, floor panels, countertops
* Cobi blocks for kids
* AUTOPART starter batteries
* [[Froneri]] ice cream

<gallery widths="130">
File:PZL-Mielec M-18A Dromader - N497WP.jpg|Dromader PZL Mielec
File:2014 Zakłady Kronospan w Mielcu 03.jpg|[[Kronospan]] factory
File:PZL M-28 Skytruck of the Polish Border Guard.JPG|[[PZL M28]], produced in Mielec
File:Leopard-AMI-Leipzig-2007a.JPG|[[Leopard 6 Litre Roadster]], produced in Mielec
File:Melex 2.jpg|[[Melex]] cart
</gallery>

==Climate==
Mielec has warm summers, cold winters and a wide but not extreme variation in temperature between seasons. 
In the [[Köppen climate classification]], Mielec is on the border between a [[humid continental climate]] (Dfb) if the 0&nbsp;°C (32&nbsp;°F) isotherm is used or an [[oceanic climate]] (Cfb) if the −3&nbsp;°C (27&nbsp;°F) isotherm is used. There is rain or snow in all months of the year.<ref>
{{cite web
| url = https://en.climate-data.org/europe/poland/subcarpathian-voivodeship/mielec-10404/
| title = Mielec Climate
| access-date = 22 November 2021}}
</ref>

== Demographics ==
{{Historical populations
| type = none
| align = none
| footnote = Source: [[Central Statistical Office (Poland)|GUS]], in particular:
* "Roczniki statystyczne GUS" (years 1939–1979)
* "Roczniki demograficzne GUS" (years 1980–1994)
* [http://www.stat.gov.pl/bdlen/app/strona.html?p_name=indeks Bank danych lokalnych GUS] (years 1995–2010)
| 1950 |9205
| 1960 |22132
| 1970 |27000
| 1980 |43143
| 1990 |61847
| 2000 |64246
| 2010 |60743
}}

== Sports ==
[[File:Stal_Mielec_stadion_1.JPG|thumb|right|[[Grzegorz Lato Municipal Stadium]], stadium of the Stal Mielec football team]]
* '''[[Stal Mielec|FKS Stal Mielec]]''' – men's [[Football in Poland|football]] team, playing in the [[Ekstraklasa]] (country's top division):
**Two times [[List of Polish football champions|Polish champions]]: [[1972–73 Ekstraklasa|1972–73]], [[1975–76 Ekstraklasa|1975–76]], and [[1974–75 Ekstraklasa|1974–75]] runners-up.
**[[Polish Cup]]: finalist in 1976 season
**[[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]]: quarter-finalist in 1975/76 season
**[[European Champion Clubs' Cup|European Champions Cup]]: first round elimination in 1973/74 season; first round elimination in 1976/77 season
**''Notable players'': [[Grzegorz Lato]], [[Henryk Kasperczak]], [[Andrzej Szarmach]], [[Jan Domarski]]
* '''[[KPSK Stal Mielec]]''' - women's [[Volleyball in Poland|volleyball]], team went bankrupt: 2nd place in 1999/2000 season, 3rd place in 1991/1992, 1993/1994, 1998/1999, 2003/2004 seasons.
* '''[[SPR Stal Mielec]]''' – men's [[Handball in Poland|handball]] team playing in [[Polish Ekstraklasa Men's Handball League|PGNiG Superliga]]: 2nd place in 1974/45 season; 3rd place in 2011/12 season.

== Education ==
[[File:Budynek Państwowej Szkoły Muzycznej I i II stopnia im. M. Karłowicza w Mielcu.JPG|thumb|Music school]]
'''Elementary schools'''
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1 im. Władysława Szafera w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 im. Tadeusza Kościuszki w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 3 im. Wojska Polskiego w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 6 im. Żwirki i Wigury w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9 im. Władysława Jasińskiego "Jędrusia" w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 11 im. Jana Pawła II w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 12 im. Henryka Sienkiewicza w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa nr 13 im. Jana Bytnara "Rudego" w Mielcu
* Szkoła Podstawowa przy Niepublicznej Szkole Mistrzostwa Sportowego w Mielcu im. Grzegorza Lato

'''Junior High Schools'''
* Gimnazjum nr 1 w Mielcu
* Gimnazjum nr 2 w Mielcu
* Gimnazjum nr 3 w Mielcu
* Gimnazjum nr 4 w Mielcu
* Gimnazjum przy Niepublicznej Szkole Mistrzostwa Sportowego w Mielcu im. Grzegorza Lato
* Niepubliczne Gimnazjum w Mielcu

[[File:PL-PK Mielec, kaplica św. Stanisława Kostki 2018-09-09--14-48-49-002.jpg|thumb|''Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych'']]
[[File:PL - Mielec -Zespół Szkół Technicznych - 2012-03-17--153417--001.JPG|thumb|''Zespół Szkół Technicznych'']]
'''High Schools and Vo-Tech Schools'''
* I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stanisława Konarskiego w Mielcu
* [[II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Mielcu]]
* Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących nr 1 w Mielcu im. st. sierż. pilota Stanisława Działowskiego
** V Liceum Ogólnokształcące
* Liceum przy Niepublicznej Szkole Mistrzostwa Sportowego w Mielcu im. Grzegorza Lato
* Zespół Szkół Budowlanych im. Żołnierzy Armii Krajowej w Mielcu
** Zasadnicza Szkoła Zawodowa Nr 2
** Technikum Nr 2
** II Liceum Profilowane
* Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych w Mielcu
** Zasadnicza Szkoła Zawodowa Nr 1
** Technikum Nr 1
** I Liceum Profilowane
* Zespół Szkół Technicznych w Mielcu
** Zasadnicza Szkoła Zawodowa Nr 3
** Technikum Nr 3
** III Liceum Profilowane
** III Liceum Ogólnokształcące
** Szkoła Policealna Nr 3
** Technikum Uzupełniające Nr 3
** III Uzupełniające Liceum Ogólnokształcące
* Zespół Szkół im. prof. Janusza Groszkowskiego w Mielcu
** Zasadnicza Szkoła Zawodowa Nr 4
** Technikum Nr 4
** IV Liceum Profilowane
** IV Liceum Ogólnokształcące

'''Colleges and universities'''
* [[Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki i Zarządzania]]
* Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych (UMCS patronage)

==Notable people==
* [[Grzegorz Lato]] (born 1950), Polish football player, World Cup 1974 top goalscorer, senator, former president of the [[Polish Football Association]]
* [[Nate Mack]] (1891–1965), American banker, born in Mielec, co-founder of the Bank of Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nate Mack|url=http://digital.library.unlv.edu/jewishheritage/people/nate-mack|website=Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project|publisher=[[UNLV University Libraries]]|access-date=March 23, 2025}}</ref>
* [[Kamil Rado]] (born 1990), Polish footballer
* [[Andrzej Rżany]] (born 1973), Polish boxer
* [[Józef Stala]] (born 1966), Polish Catholic priest, theologian, and philosopher
* [[Władysław Szafer]] (1886–1970), Polish biologist

==International relations==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland}}

=== Twin Towns - Sister Cities ===
Mielec is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref name="Mielec twinnings">{{cite web|url=http://www.mielec.pl/miasta.php|title=Mielec - Miasta Partnerskie|access-date=2013-08-25|work=Oficjalny serwis Urzędu Miejskiego w Mielcu [Mielec City Council] [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|border|9px]]|language=pl|trans-title=Mielec - Partnership Cities|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130821175355/http://www.mielec.pl/miasta.php|archive-date=2013-08-21}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|- valign="top"
|
*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Douchy-les-Mines]] in [[France]] <small>''(since 11 November 1990)''<ref name="Mielec twinnings"/></small>
*{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Mukachevo|Mukacheve]] in [[Ukraine]] <small>''(since January 1993)''<ref name="Mielec twinnings"/></small>
*{{flagicon|PRT}} [[Vila Nova de Poiares]] in [[Portugal]] <small>''(since June 2001)''<ref name="Mielec twinnings"/></small>
||
*{{flagicon|DEU}} [[Löhne]] in [[Germany]] <small>''(since 15 July 2002)''<ref name="Mielec twinnings"/></small>
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Tiszaföldvár]] in [[Hungary]] <small>''(since 11 August 2006)''<ref name="Mielec twinnings"/></small>
|}

== See also ==
*[[Stal Mielec]]
*[[Mielec Airport]]
*[[Mielec forced labor camp]] (German occupation)
*[[Mielecki family]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Mielec}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120525010007/http://www.mielec.pl/ Mielec home page (in Polish)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070426164216/http://pzlmielec.com.pl/ang/index1.php PZL aviation factory in Mielec]
* [http://mielec.bighost.pl/ History of Mielec]
* [http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kolbuszowa/mielec/mielec.html History of Jews of Mielec]
* {{JewishGen-LocalityPage|i516329|Mielec, Poland}}

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