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Kujawy

region, Poland
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Kujawy, lowland region of central Poland. It is bounded on the northeast by the Vistula River between Włocławek and Bydgoszcz and on the southwest by the Noteć River. First appearing in written sources in 1136, the name Kujawy referred then to the area closest to the Vistula and only later was used to also designate the region near Lake Gopło (on the Noteć). When King Bolesław III (the Wry-Mouthed), who ruled Poland in 1102–38, divided his kingdom among his sons in 1138, Kujawy became part of the Mazovian-Kujavian duchy; later it was separated from Mazovia (1233) and subdivided into several ...(100 of 292 words)

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