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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.
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
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]
City hall seen from the west. The Old Town City Hall in Toruń is the main secular building of Toruń's Old Town, a Gothic building created in stages during the 13th and 14th centuries, reconstructed in the 17th century and rebuilt after destruction in the 18th century, one of the most outstanding examples of medieval city architecture in central Europe, the main seat of the District Museum in ...
Contemporary view of Fort XII in Toruń, one of the buildings of Internment Camp No. 15 Contemporary view of Fort XIV in Toruń. After the conclusion of the Polish–Soviet War in December 1920, Internment Camp No. 15 was established in Toruń, located in selected structures of the Toruń Fortress: Forts XI, XIII, XV (residential buildings), XIV, XII (guard companies), and Fort II (hospital). [3]
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.
It is now one of the most modern cultural facilities in the city, with its front elevation in the shape of a gigantic chest of drawers. It is located at the south-east edge of the Old Town. Toruń has two cinemas including a Cinema City, which has over 2,000 seats. Over ten major museums document the history of Toruń and the region.
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 ...