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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Population updated.	Scott Spires	Dec 10, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jewish In Eastern Europe - Wrocław.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 10, 2023
	Map added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 11, 2023
	Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of Wrocław, Poland.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 26, 2022
	Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Wroclaw city (Poland).	Aakanksha Gaur	Nov 22, 2018
	Population data updated.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 14, 2018
	Add new Web site: Official Site of Wroclow, Poland.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	May 10, 2017
	Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Wrocław, Poland.	Grace Young	Feb 05, 2013
	Add new Web site: Maps of World - Wroclaw, Poland.	Grace Young	Feb 05, 2013
	Changed characterization of the history of the German presence in the city to make clear that there had been a large German population in the city even before it came under Prussian rule.	Jeff Wallenfeldt Leon Staikopoulos	Mar 20, 2012
	Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Wroclaw.	Shiveta Singh	Jul 11, 2008
	Added new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Wroclaw city (Poland).	Kanchan Gupta	Apr 10, 2008
	Article revised and updated.	Amy Tikkanen	Apr 20, 2007
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 17, 2005
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998