Bytow

Bytow is a town within the Gdansk Pomerania region of northern Poland with 16,888 inhabitants. Previously in Slupsk Voivodeship, it's far the capital of Bytow County in Pomeranian Voivodeship. The origins of Bytow can be traced again to the early Middle Ages while a fortified stronghold once stood close to the city. Bytow changed into later mentioned, below the Latin name castrum nomine Bitom, via extremely good Gallus Anonymus in his Chronicles describing medieval Poland. In 1346 Butow were given German metropolis law from the Teutonic Order. During the 13 Years' War, the metropolis turned into the sight of heavy preventing and modified fingers through the years.

Eventually, King Casimir IV Jagiellon granted the city to Eric II, Duke of Pomerania, as a perpetual fiefdom. After the Partitions of Poland, Bytow have become part of German Prussia and remained in Germany till the stop of World War II. Throughout its entire history, Bytow changed into recognized to be a multicultural metropolis inhabited with the aid of Kashubians, Poles, Slovincians, Germans and Jews. Since 2000, a bugle name is performed at some stage in important activities which taking vicinity within the vicinity. Bytow is a famous traveller destination in the location of Pomerania and is well-known for its medieval Teutonic Castle constructed within the past due 14th century.