Lublin
Lublin is a city of antiquity and the ninth-largest in Poland. It is the capital and the chief town of the Lublin Voivodeship (Regional Government). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River and is about 170 km to the southeast of Warsaw by road. In 1875 it had a population of 22,000.[1] In 2022 its population was 348,450.[2]
Lublin thrived as a centre of trade and commerce due to its strategic location on the ancient route between Vilnius and Kraków. It was the seat of the old Polish Tribunals, and the place of meeting of several Diets, the most famous of which was that of 1569, when Lithuania was forced into a political union with Poland[3] which became known as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Footnotes
- ↑ Murray, John, Russia, Poland, and Finland, Third revised edition, London, 1875m p.460.
- ↑ https://population-hub.com/en/pl/population-of-lublin-6616.html
- ↑ Murray, 1875, p.460.
