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Kalisz ( Polish: [ˈkaliʂ] ⓘ) is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021). [1] It is the capital city of the Kalisz Region. Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of Greater Poland, the city forms a conurbation with the nearby towns of ...
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Community History. Located in the Poznan province west of Lodz, Kalisz was for centuries a border town between Poland and Germany. One of the oldest cities in Poland, Kalisz also played a pivotal role in Polish Jewish history: in 1264, Prince Boleslav V, Duke of Krakow, was the first to grant a charter to the local Jewish community, giving them settlement rights as well as certain religious ...
Kalisz. KALISZ (Ger. Kalisch; Kalish ), city in Poznan province, W. Poland; it had the most ancient community in Poland. The first Jews to arrive there, in the last third of the 12 th century, were minters. They served Mieszko III the Oldster, prince of Great Poland (1127–1202), and his descendants. A large group of Jews from the Rhineland ...
Kalisz, city, Wielkopolskie województwo (province), west-central Poland, situated on the Prosna River. The excavations of a prehistoric village and mention of the settlement as Calisia by the astronomer-geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century ce are evidence of the town’s antiquity.
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But epidemics, fires, and wars stretching from the middle of the 17 th century until the end of the 18 th century led to a gradual decline of the importance of Kalisz. In the years 1793-1806, after the second partition of Poland, Kalisz belonged to Prussia. In 1807 it became the capital of the department of the Duchy of Warsaw.
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The traces of living in a place of today’s Kalisz are even older than the specification of Ptolemeus. They reach 8 thousand years B.C. and - which is confirmed by the archeological researches - keep the continuity till our times. During the history the town has been worried by many pests, floods, fires and turmoils of war.
Kalisz (pop. 110,000) is the main city of south-eastern Greater Poland and the region's second city (after Poznań ). It is probably the oldest town in Poland. Ptolemy mentions a city named 'Calisia' in his Geographia, written circa AD 142–174. Archaeological excavations after the Second World War found remains of a settlement from that time.
