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Modern-day Toruń, located on the banks of the Vistula. In 1934 the Polish government abrogated the German-Polish treaty of protection of national minorities which was concluded as part of the Versailles treaties restoring the region and city to Poland. [29] The Jewish community in Toruń was very active before World War II.
Plan of the Toruń historical town center. The Old Town is marked in yellow; New Town in blue; the Castle is between them to the south. The Medieval Town of Toruń is composed of three parts: the Toruń Old Town in the west, Toruń New Town in the east, and the Toruń Castle in the south-east. [1]
Over ten major museums document the history of Toruń and the region. Among others, the "House of Kopernik" and the accompanying museum commemorate Nicolaus Copernicus and his revolutionary work, the university museum reveals the history of the city's academic past. Toruń planetarium. The Tony Halik Travelers' Museum (Muzeum Podróżników im.
The garderobe tower of the Toruń Castle Map showing the location of the Toruń Castle in the medieval Toruń neighbourghood. The Toruń Castle was one of the first castles built by the order in the territory enfeoffed to them by Duke Konrad I of Masovia. [3] The construction started in the mid 13th century, and continued for about a hundred ...
The 1411 treaty. The (First) Peace of Thorn was a peace treaty formally ending the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War between allied Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania on one side, and the Teutonic Knights on the other.
Toruń (marked in red as Thorn) near the 19th-century German/Prussian and Russian border in partitioned Poland (also marked in red). Toruń was an important city, which following the Partitions of Poland was located just north and west of the border between Prussia and Russia, which runs from southwest to northeast, in the north along the Drwęca tributary of the Vistula River which passes ...
Military history of Toruń (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "History of Toruń" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
On July 2, 1658, Austrian division of 4,000, under General Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches began the siege of Toruń. The Austrians were reinforced by Polish infantry, while the city was defended by a Swedish garrison of 2,400, commanded by General Barthold Hartwig von Bulow. Swedes were supported by German-speaking, Protestant residents of Toruń.