Legnica , old name: Lignica and Liegnitz (German), city of the south-west of Poland on the Kaczawa, with 106.122 inhabitants (2003).
Built at the 11th century, Legnica (formerly known under the name of Lignica and Liegnitz) was the Chef-lieu of the Dynastie of Silesian Piast. The April 9th 1241, the city was the theater of famous a battles against the Mongolian invader. It followed the fate of Silesia, passed from Poland to Bohemia (in the Germanic Empire) in 1335, then with it in 1526 in Austria. In 1745 it was attached to Prussia following a war lost by Austria. As the remainder of Low-Silesia it was deeply germanisée. It entered the German Empire like Prussia in 1871, and remained German after 1918. In 1945, the area was attached to Poland and the German-speaking ones expelled to the profit of other refugees (coming from the territories lost by Poland in the east of the Curzon line).
Legnica was the Chef-lieu of the Voïvodie of Legnica between 1975 and 1998 and then was built-in the Voïvodie of Low-Silesia from which it is the third plus big city.
Industry
Legnica is an important industrial center whose resource the main thing is the Cuivre.
Twinnings
Bonds
- official Web site of the town of Legnica
- regional Gate
- Akademickie Liceum Ogólnokształcące (Polish)
Simple: Legnica
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