Rawicz
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Rawicz (; ) is a town in west-central Poland with 21,398 inhabitants as of 2004. It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the capital of Rawicz County.
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Rawicz is a city in Poland, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship within the administrative district of Gmina Rawicz. Located in Europe, the city has an area of 7.81 square kilometers and an elevation of 100 meters. It was established in 1638 and is served by the postal code 63-900.
The population of Rawicz is recorded as 20,305, comprising 9,647 males and 10,658 females. Another source lists the population as 21,380. The city is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, and the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Place details
- Locality
- Rawicz
- Region
- województwo wielkopolskie
- Country
- Polska
- Population
- 21,380
- Timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Rawicz
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rynek rawicz.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Town Hall in Rawicz
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Rawicz COA.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- POL_Rawicz_flag.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Rawicz
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Rawicz
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Grzegorz Kubik
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1638
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Rawicz (; ) is a town in west-central Poland with 21,398 inhabitants as of 2004. It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the capital of Rawicz County.
==History== thumb|left|upright=0.7|Adam Olbracht Przyjemski, founder of Rawicz The town was founded by Adam Olbracht Przyjemski of Rawicz coat of arms for Protestant refugees from Silesia during the Thirty Years' War. In 1638 King Władysław IV Vasa granted Rawicz town rights and confirmed the town's coat of arms. Rawicz was built as a precisely planned town and developed at a rapid pace. It was located on the trade route connecting Poznań and Wrocław. In 1640, a cloth guild was founded. Cloth production became a leading branch of the local industry, and by the end of the 18th century Rawicz was the leading weaving town of the whole region of Greater Poland. Rawicz was a private town of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.
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