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Częstochowa is a city in south Poland on the Warta River with 240, 027 inhabitants ( June 2009 ).

It has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship ( administrative division ) since 1999, and was previously the capital of Częstochowa Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ).

However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not of Silesia, and before 1795 ( see: Partitions of Poland ), it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship.