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Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in 14th-century.
Łódź, city, capital of Łódzkie województwo (province), central Poland. It lies on the northwestern edge of the Łódź Highlands, on the watershed of the Vistula and Oder rivers, 81 miles (130 km) southwest of Warsaw. Łódź is mentioned in 14th-century records as a village. It acquired municipal rights.
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Lodz is the third largest urban centre in Poland with a population of about 742,000. Although the history of Lodz goes back a long way (it obtained city rights in the 15th century), its greatest development and later boom happened in the 19th century, when Lodz became a centre of the cloth industry.
Łódź city (dark red) and surrounding counties (orange) Country. Poland. Largest city. Łódź. Area. • Metro. 2,496 km 2 (964 sq mi) Population.
In the 19th century, the Polish city of Łódź grew from a tiny farming town into a bustling textile industry metropolis – at a rate unseen anywhere else in Europe at the time. The cosmopolitan city was raised by Poles, Jews, Germans, Russians and other gropus, who peacefully co-existed there for many years. Here, we explore the golden age of Łódź, which ended with World War II.
Łódź first appears in written records in 1332 under the name of Łodzia. In 1423 King Władysław Jagiełło grants city rights to the village of Łódź. The town remains no more than a rural backwater for the following centuries, with a population numbering just 800 as late as the 16th Century. After the Great Northern War (1700-1721 ...
