Siedlce ( (Latinized))'s a town in eastern Poland with 77,092 inhabitants . Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the town was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975-1998). Towns such as Siedlce in the depressed east have now been emptied by large-scale emigration to the West. Statistics show that 14 per cent of employers recently reported labour shortages, compared with 8 per cent in the first quarter of 2004. The town was most probably founded some time be… (More on Siedlce)