Wodzislaw Slaski

Wodzislaw Slaski is a city in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 50,493 inhabitants. It is the seat of Wodzislaw County. It became formerly in Katowice Voivodeship 1975 to 1998 close to the border with the Czech Republic, approximately 290 kilometers south of Warsaw and approximately 100 kilometers west of Krakow, on the southern outskirts of the metropolitan vicinity known as the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. Being a borderland city, Wodzislaw Slaski is a centre of the Wodzislaw County, shaped at some point of an ancient method lasting many centuries.

Rich excavations the oldest reveals dated back to the Stone Age provide evidence about its historical inhabitants. The city's call derives from the Piast Duke Wladyslaw of Opole. He placed the metropolis and hooked up the Wodzislaw monastery about 1257. The metropolis's origins can be traced returned into the 10^th and 11^th century, when three Slavic settlements existed on Wodzislaw's cutting edge territory which ultimately merged to form one metropolis. In the direction of the medieval eastward migration of Flemish and German settlers, Wodzislaw, as many different Polish settlements, become included granted town repute and proper according to the so called Magdeburg Law at some point before 1257 the precise date remains unknown.