Piotrkow Trybunalski

Piotrkow Trybunalski is a town in Poland with 74,694 population. It is situated within the Lodz Voivodeship, and changed into formerly the capital of the Piotrkow Voivodeship. It is the capital of Piotrkow County. In the early Middle Ages the Piotrkow location changed into a part of the province of Leczyca dominated by using the Piast dynasty. In 1264 it have become a part of a separate principality. The basis of the metropolis and its improvement were related with its geographical function and the fine association of the roads linking the provinces of Poland in Piast instances.

At first a marketplace metropolis and a place of the princes' tribunals, Piotrkow became an administrative centre, and in later centuries it also became an crucial political centre in Poland. The first record of Piotrkow is in a report issued in 1217 via the Prince of Krakow, Leszek I the White, in which there is a point out of the prince's tribunal held "in Petrecoue". Mediaeval Piotrkow became a buying and selling area at the alternate routes from Pomerania to Russia and Hungary, and later from Masovia to Silesia.