Warsaw is the capital of Poland situated in the very heart of the country. In 2001 Warsaw had 1,615,000 inhabitants.
The beginnings:
Although almost 700 years old, Warsaw is considered to be a young city by Polish standards. Warsaw was only starting to emerge as a city from the Mazovian forest, when cities such as: Krakow, Gdansk, Wroclaw or Kalisz were celebrating their quincentenaries. First traces of settlement in the Warsaw area date from the 10th century. The first notable structure does not come in until the beginning of the 14th century, when the dukes of Mazovia built a stronghold on the site where the Royal Palace stands today, thus starting a township. The city's outlay closely followed that of many other medieval Polish town
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