Bialogard

Bialogard is a city in Middle Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 24,399 population. The name is a aggregate of Slavic phrases: bialy for white and gard for city/town. The capital of Bialogard County in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship because 1999, the city become formerly in Koszalin Voivodeship. It is the most important railroad junction of the Middle Pomerania, with fundamental traces crossing there. According to archaeologists the Bialogard stronghold changed into built within the fork of the Parseta and Lesnica Rivers as early because the 8^th century.

In the 10^th century it was an critical centre of long-variety worldwide exchange at the crossroads of two crucial change routes: a north-south "salt path" from Kolobrzeg to Poznan and Greater Poland, and the west-east Pomeranian path from Szczecin to Gdansk. Pomerania was inhabited by using several tribes together known as Pomeranians, and Bialogard become likely the centre of certainly one of them. In the 10^th century Pomerania was conquered via the Polish dukes Mieszko I and Boleslaw the Brave, who installed a bishopric in the nearby Kolobrzeg in 1000, however the vicinity changed into quickly lost to Poland and Christianity.