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History of Pszczyna

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The first reference in sources to the place dates from 1303, but the town was likely founded a century before. The main trading route between Kievan Rus and the Moravian Gate ran through Pszczyna in the early Middle Ages, and the small settlement probably provided protective measures for merchants on the ford (surrounded by marshlands) of the small Pszczynka river.

The land around Pszczyna was historically part of Lesser Poland. Duke Kazimierz II the Just ceded the land to Mieszko Plątonogi, another Piast dynasty duke, from the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, in 1181. Mieszko Plątonogi was succeeded by other dukes

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