Turek

Turek is a city in Poland with 31,282 inhabitants As of 2009. It is the capital of Turek County. Turek has been situated inside the Greater Poland Voivodeship when you consider that 1999; it turned into in Konin Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. Turek is first mentioned within the ancient file 1136, while it turned into listed as belonging to the archbishops of Gniezno. It received its town rights in 1341. The city become the capital of a district in the Kalisz location of the Russian Empire. Following the end of the First World War in 1918, Turek became a part of the Second Polish Republic.

With the German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the Second World War, Turek become occupied by means of the Wehrmacht and annexed through Nazi Germany. It changed into administered as a part of the county or district of Turek within Reichsgau Wartheland. With the appearance of the Red Army in 1945 and the give up of the warfare, Turek changed into integrated into the People's Republic of Poland.