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SANDOMIR, or SEDOMIERZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 140 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANDOMIR, or SEDOMIERZ , a See also:town of See also:Russian See also:Poland, in the See also:government of See also:Radom, 140 M. S.S.E. of See also:Warsaw by riverand on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Vistula, opposite the confluence of the See also:San. Pop. (1881) 6265, or, including suburbs, 14,710; (1897) 6534. It is one of the See also:oldest towns of Poland, being mentioned as See also:early as 1079; from 1139 to 1332 it was the See also:chief town of the principality of the same name. In 1240, and again in 1259, it was burned by the See also:Mongols. Under Casimir III. it reached a high degree of prosperity. In 1429 it was the seat of a See also:congress for the See also:establishment of See also:peace with Lithuania, and in 1570 the " Consensus Sandomiriensis " was held here for uniting the See also:Lutherans, Calvinists and Moravian Brethren. Subsequent See also:wars, and especially the See also:Swedish (e.g. in 1655) ruined the town even more than did numerous conflagrations, and in the second See also:part of the 18th See also:century it had only about 2000 inhabitants. Here in 1702 the See also:Polish supporters of See also:Augustus of See also:Saxony banded together against See also:Charles XII. of See also:Sweden. The beautiful See also:cathedral was built between 1120 and 1191; it was rebuilt in See also:stone in 1360, and is one of the oldest monuments of Polish See also:architecture. Two of the churches are See also:fine See also:relics of the. t3th century.

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castle, built by Casimir III. (14th century), still exists. The See also:city gives See also:title to an episcopal see (See also:Roman See also:Catholic).

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