Leszno

Leszno is a city in western Poland with 64,197 population and is the 7^th largest settlement within the Greater Poland Voivodeship of which it's miles located inside the southern a part of the since 1999. It becomes formerly the capital of the Leszno Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. The metropolis has county reputation. The agreement likely arose in the 13^th century. Leszno inside the Polish Poznan Voivodeship turned into first stated in ancient files in 1393, when the estate was the assets of Stefan Karnina of Wieniawa Coat of Arms. The family followed the surname of Leszczynski from the call in their estate consistent with the medieval custom of the Polish the Aristocracy.

Around 1516, a network of Protestant Unity of the Brethren refugees expelled from the Bohemian lands via King Vladislaus II, settled in Leszno invited with the aid of the noble Leszczynski circle of relatives, when you consider that 1473 imperial counts and had transformed to Calvinism. The arrival of the Bohemian Protestants as well as weavers from close by Silesia helped the agreement to grow and made it viable to grow to be a city in 1547 by means of a privilege in line with Magdeburg Law given through King Sigismund I of Poland.