My LOVELY Łódź (Lodz, Lodsch, Лодзь, 'לודז )
I love this city more than any other corner of this World. I hope this amateur footage will make you feel curious of this city. It's worth of seeing. XIX-th century textile capital of Europe is waiting for You. Lodz is a city in central Poland, with a population of 753192 in 2007. It is Poland's second largest city. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi) south-west of Warsaw. Łódź first appears in the written record in a 1332 document giving the village of Łodzia to the bishops of Włocławek. In 1423 King Władysław Jagiełło granted city rights to the village of Łódź. From then until the 18th century the town remained a small settlement on a trade route between Masovia and Silesia. In the 16th century the town had fewer than 800 inhabitants, mostly working on the nearby grain farms. With the second partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź became part of the Kingdom of Prussia's province of South Prussia, and was known in German as Lodsch. In 1798 the Prussians nationalized the town, and it lost its status as a town of the bishops of Kuyavia. In 1806 Łódź joined the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and in 1810 it had 190 inhabitants. In 1815 Congress of Vienna treaty it became part of Congress Poland, a client state of the Russian Empire. However, those harsh times were the golden age for the city of Lodz. The town was increasing in number of people, buildings, factories, apartments and palaces. The citys economy was rapidly growing being <b>...</b>
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