Mikolow

Mikolow is a city in Silesia, in southern Poland, close to the town of Katowice. It borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a city with a population of over 2 million, and is inside a greater Silesian metropolitan place populated by way of approximately 5,294,000 humans. The populace of the city is 38,821. Located within the Silesian Highlands, at the Jamna flow, a tributary of the Klodnica River and in a roundabout way the Oder. It is located inside the Silesian Voivodeship considering that its formation in 1999, formerly in Katowice Voivodeship, and earlier then, of the Silesian Voivodeship. With a written mention from 1222, Mikolow is one of the oldest towns in Upper Silesia.

This becomes a record sent by means of duke of the Raciborz Casmir to the bishop of Wroclaw, Wawrzyniec. In the document changed into written the name of Andrew the castellan of Miculow, showing that Mikolow changed into already an administrative center. During the Ostsiedlung, Mikolow significantly grew in populace and extended its infrastructure. Mikolow became the middle of neighborhood trading, located on crossroads of buying and selling roads. The Black Death killed 33% of the town's population in 1349 to 50.