w Tarnowie) Sports The list features selected sport teams based in Tarnów: Unia Tarnów – speedway team, Polish Champions in 2004, 2005 and 2012. The team is sponsored by Mościce Nitrate Factory and is also popularly known as Jaskółki (Swallows). ZKS Unia Tarnów – Zakładowy Klub Sportowy Unia Tarnów (Workplace Sports Club United Tarnów) – association football team, which plays in the lower leagues. Tarnovia Tarnów – association football team, which plays in the lower leagues, but played in Poland's top division in the past, most recently in 1948. Unia Wisła Paged Tarnów – men's basketball team, which plays in the lower leagues, but played in Poland's top division in the past, most recently in 2007. Grupa Azoty Unia Tarnów – men's handball team playing in the Polish Superliga. Roleski Grupa Azoty PWSZ Tarnów – women's volleyball team playing in the TAURON Liga, the highest level of women's volleyball played in Poland. Religion Besides Catholics, other Christian denominations are also present in Tarnów including Baptist Church, Free Brothers Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodist Church, Pentecostal Church, Seventh-day Adventist Church and the non-denominational Evangelical Movement "The Lord is my Banner". Before World War II there was a large population of Jews comprising half of the city's population, but now there remain just monuments of their past presence. According to 2007 Catholic Church statistics provided by the Instytut Statystyki Kościoła Katolickiego SAC, Tarnów is the most religious city in Poland, with 72.5% of the congregation of the Diocese of Tarnów attending Mass. International relations Twin towns – Sister cities Tarnów is twinned with: Trenčín in Slovakia Kiskőrös in Hungary Schoten in Belgium Blackburn in United Kingdom Casalmaggiore in Italy Veszprém in Hungary Nowy Sącz in Poland Kotlas in Russia Bila Tserkva in Ukraine Vinnytsia in Ukraine Former twin towns: Ternopil in Ukraine In June 2021, the Tarnów city council decided to suspend its partnership with the Ukrainian town of Ternopil as a reaction to the naming of a stadium in Ternopil in honour of Roman Shukhevych, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army responsible for the Volhynian Genocide perpetrated on the Polish people between 1943–1945. Notable people Józef Bem (1794–1850), a Polish engineer, general and Ottoman pasha Roman Brandstaetter (1906–1987), writer Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989), communist politician, Prime Minister of the Poland Charles Denner (1926–1995), French actor Jan Drohojowski (1901–1979), diplomat Jacek Dukaj (born 1974), writer Stefan Filipkiewicz (1879–1944), painter Ignace J(ay).