Rawa Mazowiecka

Rawa Mazowiecka is a town in Poland, with 17,561 inhabitants. It lies in the Lodz Voivodeship and is the capital of the Rawa County. From 1562 the town hosted the Rawa Treasury for the Polish army. During an excavation in 1948, a hoard wealth deposit dating from 600 BC changed into discovered containing four underground rooms with barrels of gold and silver. A smaller treasure turned into determined containing mainly bronze artefacts from the Trzciniec tradition, dating from round 1700 BC. Rawa has a protracted and wealthy history. First noted in 1288, it acquired city rights in 1321.

It used to be one of the most critical cities of both the Kingdom of Poland and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a capital of Rawa Voivodeship, a unit of administrative department which existed from 1462 until 1793. The starosta of Rawa became among maximum critical personalities of early Poland, as he controlled the so-referred to as “Rawa Treasury” - a huge sum of tax money, kept at Rawa Castle for financing regular army devices.