Konstantynów Łódzki is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Pabianice County
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Pabianice County ( pl, powiat pabianicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ...
,
Łódź Voivodeship,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
, with 18,335 inhabitants (2020).
It borders
Lodz to the east,
Lutomiersk
Lutomiersk is a town in Pabianice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Lutomiersk. It lies approximately north-west of Pabianice and west of the regional capital ...
to the West,
Aleksandrow Lodzki to the North, and
Porszewice to the South. It was incorporated in 1924, but was founded in the 1820s by a landowner who had planned to build a
textile
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industry there.
In 1821 Konstantynów Łódzki, at that time still a village, became a part of the textile industry of the
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...
region. Shortly thereafter, in 1824 the town was given its current name and was established as a town in 1830.
Notable residents
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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (born 1950), Polish-American chemist,
Wolf Prize
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winner
References
External links
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Konstantynów Łódzki chapterof th
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ttp://www.konstantynowlodzkijewishcemetery.com/home-1.htmlKonstantynow Lodzki Jewish Cemetery Restoration.
Cities and towns in Łódź Voivodeship
Pabianice County
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