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Łódź ( [WU-tsh]; , Lodzh; , [LU-dsh] [LO-dz] or [WOO-tsh]) is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 715,360 in 2013. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat. It alludes to the city's name which translates literally as "boat."
Łódź was once a small settlement that first appeared in written records in around 1332. In the early 15th-century it was granted city rights, but remained a rather small and insubstantial town. It was the property of Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the end of the 18th century, when Łódź was annexed by Prussia as a result of the second partition of Poland. Following the collapse of the independent Duchy of Warsaw, the city became part of Congress Poland, a client state of the Russian Empire. It was then that Łódź experienced rapid growth in the cloth industry and in population due the inflow of migrants, most notably Germans and Jews. Ever since the industrialization of the area, the city has struggled with many difficulties such as multinationalism and social inequality, which were vividly documented in the novel The Promised Land written by Polish Nobel Prize-winning author Władysław Reymont. The contrasts greatly reflected on the architecture of the city, where luxurious mansions coexisted with redbrick factories and old tenement houses.
After Poland regained its independence in 1918, Łódź grew to be one of the largest Polish cities and one of the most multicultural and industrial centers in Europe. The interbellum period saw rapid development in education and healthcare. After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the German Army captured the city and renamed it Litzmannstadt in honour of the German general Karl Litzmann, who was victorious near the area during World War I. The city's large Jewish population was forced into a walled zone known as the Łódź Ghetto, from which they were sent to German concentration and extermination camps. Following the liberation of the city by the Soviet Army, Łódź, which sustained insignificant damage during the war, became part of the newly established People's Republic of Poland.
After years of prosperity during the socialist era, Łódź experienced decline after the fall of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe. The city, however, is internationally known for its National Film School, a cradle for the most renowned Polish actors and directors, including Andrzej Wajda and Roman Polanski.
In European elections, Łódź is a constituency of the European Parliament. It consists of the Łódź Voivodeship.
Łódź is a city in central Poland.
Łódź may also refer to:
- Łódź (European Parliament constituency)
- Łódź Voivodeship
- Łódź, Gostyń County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
- Łódź, Poznań County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Łódź is a Polish parliamentary constituency in the Masovian Voivodeship. It elects ten members of the Sejm and three members of the Senate.
The district has the number '9' and is named after the city of Łódź. It includes the county of Brzeziny and Łódź East and the city county of Łódź.
Usage examples of "lodz".
The 0015 to Krakow via Lodz and Czestochowa, a black brute loosed southwards across the snows.
Pomerania against Thorn and the other from the region of Moravska Ostrava against Lodz.
As soon as talks between the Race and the Germans broke down, he'd got his wife and children (and Heinrich's beffel) out of Lodz and into a hamlet called Widawa, southwest of the city.
The Lodz Clearing Station handled more than three hundred thousand people a day, and almost all of them were Han.
With a nod to the peddler, he walked south down the dirt track toward Lodz.
His hope had been to make the industrious Jews of Lodz so valuable to the Nazis that they would not want to ship them to extermination camps.
Anielewicz still lived in what had been the Lodz ghetto, not far from the fire station that had housed the ghetto's only motorized vehicle, a fire engine.