Mlawa

Mlawa is a town in north central Poland with 30,957 inhabitants in 2012. It is the capital of the Mlawa County. The town is located within the Masovian Voivodeship formerly it turned into part of the Ciechanow Voivodeship since 1975. During the invasion of Poland in 1939, the warfare of Mlawa turned into fought to the north of the metropolis. The first point out of Mlawa comes from July 2, 1426, whilst three princes of Mazovia Siemowit V, Trojden II and Wladyslaw I got here right here to a session of a nearby court. It is not regarded if Mlawa had already been city middle, as there aren't any sources which could prove it.

Three years later, Mlawa became integrated as a metropolis and in 1521 at some point of the Polish Teutonic War the town became captured and looted by the Teutonic Knights. In 1659 the town was burned by the Swedish troops and in 1795, following the Partitions of Poland, Mlawa have become part of the Kingdom of Prussia. After Napoleonic Wars, within the 1815 Congress of Vienna Mlawa together with the whole province changed into incorporated into the Russian Partition of Poland where it remained till World War I.