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Działdowo
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Działdowo (; , ) is a town in northern Poland with 20,935 inhabitants as of December 2021, the capital of Działdowo County. As part of Masuria, it is situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
Key facts
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- Działdowo
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- POL Działdowo flag.svg
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- POL Działdowo COA.svg
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- Poland
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- bottom
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- Country
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- Voivodeship
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- Warmian-Masurian
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- County
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- Działdowo
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- Gmina
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- Działdowo (urban gmina)
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- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Grzegorz Mrowiński
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- Established
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- 14th century
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- Town rights
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- 1344
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- urban municipality of Poland
- Official name
- Działdowo
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Działdowo County
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 20670
- Area
- 13.35
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.dzialdowo.pl
- Image
- Dzialdowo1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Działdowo
- twinned administrative body
- Truskavets
- Commons gallery
- Działdowo
- postal code
- 13-200
- native label
- Soldau
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Działdowo
- P8168
- Malyy Martyn
- P6482
- Działdowo
- male population
- 9897
- female population
- 10773
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Polish sovereignty
- Kingdom of Prussia and Germany
- Interwar Poland
- World War II
- Transport
- Notable residents
- International relations
- References
- External links
Działdowo (; , ) is a town in northern Poland with 20,935 inhabitants as of December 2021, the capital of Działdowo County. As part of Masuria, it is situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
Founded in the Middle Ages and granted town rights in 1344, the town features heritage sites in various styles, including Gothic, Baroque, Gothic Revival and Baroque Revival, a preserved medieval urban layout with a market square and a medieval castle. It is particularly known as the location of the Soldau concentration camp during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The town is a major railroad junction connecting the capital city of Warsaw with Gdańsk and Olsztyn to the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Działdowo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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