DAMBROWA, a Polish town in the province of Kielce and centre of the coal basin bearing its name and which combines with the basins of Cracow and Polish Silesia to form one of the great est coalfields of Europe. Pop. (1931) 36,987, an increase of 6,116 on that of 1921. The Dambrowa basin, 200 sq.km., was for merly in the Russian empire, and in 1924 produced 6,585,097 tons, about 97% of the production of 1913.