Skip to content

Search
Timeline
Map
Graph
Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Random

A living digital encyclopedia of human civilization. Begin anywhere; follow the threads.

¶ Browse

Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Timeline
Map
Graph
Random entry
About

¶ Sources & licensing

Adapted prose from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — public domain in the United States.
Imagery via Wikimedia Commons; per-image attribution on each entry.

¶ Colophon

Set in EB Garamond and JetBrains Mono. Built on Next.js 16 + Postgres 17 with pgvector + Drizzle ORM, deployed to Vercel atop a Neon Postgres branch.

Source at github.com/chloeilabs/alexandria.

Alexandria · MMXXVIExplicit colophon · 2026

Place

Gliwice

Also known as

Gleivica
Gleiwitz
Gleiwitz
Gleiwitz
Gleiwitz
Gleiwitz

Image illustrating Gliwice — archival plate · Wikimedia Commons · Gliwicesee Wikimedia Commons

This entry is a stub. The Library is awakening — a longer account is being written.

Connected to

place of death ofAdolf Joszt1889 CE
birthplace ofAleksander Mandziara1940 CE
birthplace ofBartosz Tarachulski1975 CE
birthplace ofChristoph Zöpel1943 CE
birthplace ofEugen Goldstein1850 CE
place of death ofFrits van Hall1899 CE
place of death ofGerard Kusz1939 CE
containsGliwice Castle
birthplace ofGrzegorz Tomala1974 CE
birthplace ofGustav Neumann1838 CE
birthplace ofHans Kneifel1936 CE
birthplace ofHenryk Gronowski1928 CE

+ 12 further connections to entries not yet ingested

¶ Auctoritates · sources

Adapted from Wikipediaview source ↗
CC BY-SA 4.0

Gliwice · Alexandria