Czerniaków

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Czerniaków is a neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and the river itself. Since Middle Ages called Czerniakowo, it was but a small village located well to the south of the Warsaw's Old Town. It was not until 19th century that the area became densely built-up and became populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of the society, which gave birth to a specific local version of the Warsaw dialect. During the Warsaw Uprising the area was one of the last Polish strongholds.