Łowicz

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Łowicz Cathedral
Łowicz Cathedral

Łowicz is a town in central Poland with 30,383 inhabitants (2004). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975-1998).

Łowicz was an residence of Polish primates. When they were regents of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the town became a temporary "capital" of Poland during interregnum. So despite its small size it has a bishop and a basilica. The ruins of a former bishop's castle can be found on the outskirts and the town has an important ethnographic museum and skansen with traditional houses. Napoleon Bonaparte is believed to have stayed in a house on the main square and the town was at the centre of the largest battle of the German invasion of Poland, the Battle of the Bzura River.

It has a football team, Pelikan, who languish in the lower divisions of the polish leagues.

[edit] Education

  • Mazowiecka Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Pedagogiczna

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Coordinates: 52°07′N 19°56′E

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