Slesin
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ślesin
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Ślesin COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Wolnejojczyznie.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Holy Family Monument, landmark to commemorate the independence of Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Greater Poland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Konin
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Ślesin
- Settlement.established_title
Key dates
- Inception
- 1231
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Gmina Ślesin
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- +3179
- Area
- +7.18
- Official website
- www.slesin.pl
- Image
- Wolnejojczyznie.jpg
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Ślesin ( or Shleshin) is a town in Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 3,200 inhabitants (2010).
==History== thumb|left|Saint Nicholas and Good Shepherd church The oldest known mention of Ślesin comes from a document of Polish monarch Konrad I of Masovia from 1231. It was granted town rights in 1358 by King Casimir III the Great. It was a private church town, administratively located in the Konin County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.