Turzyn
Sign in to saveTurzyn (; German until 1945: ) is a municipal neighbourhood of Szczecin, Poland, located within the Downtown district. It is a mid-rise housing estate dominated by tenement houses. The neighbourhood has an area of 1.57 km2, and in 2022, was inhabited by 16,227 people. Turzyn dates to the High Middle Ages, when it was a small farming community. By the 20th century, it developed into a suburb, and was incorporated into the city in 1910.
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Turzyn (; German until 1945: ) is a municipal neighbourhood of Szczecin, Poland, located within the Downtown district. It is a mid-rise housing estate dominated by tenement houses. The neighbourhood has an area of 1.57 km2, and in 2022, was inhabited by 16,227 people. Turzyn dates to the High Middle Ages, when it was a small farming community. By the 20th century, it developed into a suburb, and was incorporated into the city in 1910.
== Toponomy == The name for Turzyn, historically known in German as Torney, comes from Slavic term for blackthorn, a species of a flowering plant in the rose family, comparably known colloquially in Polish as tarń. The village was named as such, as the plant grew in the fields surrounding it. Historically, Torney was also recorded with spellings Turnei and Turney.
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