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about Torun

Toruń ) (Kashubian: Torń, former German name Thorn) is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula river, with 204,300 inhabitants (1995). One of the capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Toruń Voivodship (1975-1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodship (1921-1939), the city is near the Geographic Center of Europe.

The medieval town of Toruń is on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. The city of Toruń creates a bipolar aglomeration Bydgoszcz-Toruń with the city of Bydgoszcz, only 30 km away. Those 2 cities are integrating gradually. in 2003 Medical Academy in Bydgoszcz joined Toruń University.

Torun history

Toruń was a small settlement in Chelmno Land (Ziemia Chelminska), a western part of Mazovia. in 1266 it was awarded by the duke Conrad of Mazovia as a fief to the Teutonic Knights to be a safeguard against the heathen Prussians.

The Teutonic Knights built a castle there (1230-31), and the settlement acquired town rights in 1233, relocating from its original site to what is called today "Old Town" in 1236. The city soon became an important medieval trade center, and a member of the Hanseatic League. In 1263, Franciscan monks settled in Toruń, and they were followed in 1239 by Dominicans. In 1264 the neighboring Toruń New Town was founded. It was a separate town until 1454, when the old and new cities were amalgamated.

During the 14th century, Toruń joined the Hanseatic League.

Famous people

Toruń was the birthplace of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473).

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