sentences:  The area of Kielce has been inhabited since at least the 5th century BC.Until the 6th or 7th century the banks of the Silnica were inhabited by Celts.They were driven out by a Lechitic tribe of Vistulans who started hunting in the nearby huge forests and had settled most of the area now known as Lesser Poland and present-day Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship.