Płowce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radziejów, within

Radziejów County __NOTOC__ Radziejów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms ...

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, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately east of

Radziejów Radziejów (Polish pronunciation: ) is a town in Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, about south of Toruń. It is the capital of Radziejów County. It is located in the historic region of Kuyavia. Its population is 5,696 (2010). History ...

and south of

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. It is best known for the Battle of Płowce, which took place on 27 September 1331 between the

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(led by King

Władysław I Łokietek Władysław I Łokietek, in English known as the "Elbow-high" or Ladislaus the Short (c. 1260/12 March 1333), was King of Poland from 1320 to 1333, and duke of several of the provinces and principalities in the preceding years. He was a member of ...

) and the

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. Although there was no outright winner, it stopped the expansion of the Teutonic Order in the Kuyavia region. The battlefield is marked by a cross and monument.

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