Jaroslaw

Jaroslaw is a city in south-japanese Poland, with 38,970 population, as of 30 June 2014. Situated inside the Subcarpathian Voivodeshi, previously in Przemysl Voivodeship, it's miles the capital of Jaroslaw County. The city turned into installed on 1031 by the Yaroslav the Wise, a grand prince of Kievan Rus'. It became granted Magdeburg rights by means of Polish prince Wladyslaw Opolczyk in 1375. The town quickly advanced as vital alternate centre and a port on the San river, achieving the duration of its finest prosperity in 16^th and 17^th century, with trade routes linking Silesia with Ruthenia and Gdansk with Hungary coming through it and traders from such distant international locations as Spain, England, Finland, Armenia and Persia arriving on the annual three-week-long honest at the dinner party of the Assumption.

In 1574 a Jesuit university changed into installed in Jarosław. In the 1590s Tatars from the Ottoman Empire pillaged the surrounding geographical region. They were not able to conquer the town's fortifications, but their raids began to decrease the city's financial power and importance. Outbreaks of bubonic plague in the 1620s and the Swedish The Deluge in 1655-60 similarly undermined its prominence. In the Great Northern War of 1700-21 the place turned into time and again pillaged by using Russian, Saxon and Swedish armies, causing the town to say no similarly.