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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Warka
| image_skyline = Fire station and Town hall in Warka, Poland.jpg
| image_caption = Classicist town hall at the Hetman [[Stefan Czarnecki]] Square
| image_shield = POL Warka 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 = [[Masovian Voivodeship|Masovian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Grójec County|Grójec]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Warka|Warka]]
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Dariusz Gizka
| established_title = Established
| established_date = 13th century
| established_title3 = Town rights
| established_date3 = 1321
| area_total_km2 = 26,77 
| population_as_of = 2013
| population_total = 11 858<ref>[http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/L_ludnosc_stan_struktura_30-06-2013.pdf Population record as of June 2013 (in Polish)] s.72</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|51|47|N|21|12|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 05-660
| area_code = +48 48
| blank_name = [[Polish car number plates|Car plates]]
| blank_info = WGR
| website = http://www.warka.pl 
}}
'''Warka''' {{IPAc-pl|'|w|a|r|k|a}} ({{langx|yi|ווארקע}}) is a [[town]] in east-central [[Poland]], located on the left bank of the [[Pilica (river)|Pilica river]] ({{convert|60 |km|mi|0|abbr=on|disp=or}} south of [[Warsaw]]),{{TERYT}} with 11,858 inhabitants (2013). It has been situated in [[Grójec County]], in the [[Masovian Voivodeship]], since 1999; previously it was in the [[Radom Voivodeship]] from 1975 to 1998.

Warka obtained its city charter in 1321. A village called [[Winiary (Warka)|Winiary]], which today is part of Warka, is the countryside residence of Pulaskis family where [[General]] [[Casimir Pulaski]] spent his childhood and the birthplace of [[Colonel]] [[Piotr Wysocki]] (September 10, 1797). Warka is also known for its famous [[Warka Brewery|brewery]] (since 1478).

For the duration of the [[UEFA Euro 2012]], Warka hosted the [[Croatia national football team]].

==Notable people==
* [[Casimir Pulaski]] (1745–1779), nobleman, soldier and military commander 
* [[Piotr Wysocki]] (1797–1875), military commander
* [[Israel Yitzhak Kalish]] (1779–1848), [[hasidic]] [[rebbe]]
* [[Yaakov Aryeh Guterman]] (1792-1874), hasidic rebbe
* [[Adam Jarzębski]] (c. 1590– c. 1648), early Baroque Polish composer, violinist, poet, and writer

==Gallery==
<gallery align="center" widths="155px" heights="155px" perrow=4>
File:Warka-pomnik Piotra Wysockiego.jpg|Monument of [[Piotr Wysocki]]
File:Kościół Św. Mikołaja w Warce19751.jpg|Saint Nicholas Church
Warka..jpg|[[Warka Brewery]]
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Warka}}
* [http://www.warka.pl/ Official town webpage]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050109185943/http://www.welcometo.home.pl/march_2002/excursion.htm The town of a hero of two nations]
* [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/warka/ Jewish Community in Warka] on Virtual Shtetl
* {{JewishGen-LocalityPage|534404|Warka, Poland}}

{{Gmina Warka}}
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[[Category:Warka| ]]
[[Category:Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship]]
[[Category:Grójec County]]
[[Category:Populated riverside places in Poland]]

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