Lubin

Lubin is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south western Poland. From 1975 to 1998 it belonged to the former Legnica Voivodeship. Lubin is the administrative seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin, even though it isn't always part of the territory of the latter, because the metropolis forms a separate city gmina. As of the 2009 census, the metropolis had a complete populace of 74,552. The place of Lubin lies halfway among the main settlements of West Slavic Slezanie tribes, the Dziadoszanie and the Trzebowianie, whose lands have been both subdued by King Mieszko I of Poland about 990. It is unclear which of the 2 tribes, if both, founded the city.

One legend states that the city derives its name from Luba, a younger man credited with slaying a massive bear that were terrifying the population. A papal bull dated to circa 1155 mentions lubin as certainly one of 13 Silesian castellanies. According to legend the Polish voivode Piotr Włostowic of Dunin 1080 to 1153 had a fieldstone church constructed at the hill within the west of Lubin, in which about 1230 a castellany and a village arose that till these days is referred to as the Old Town Polish Stary Lubin.