Kalisz

Poland / Wielkopolskie / Kalisz /
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Kalisz (pronounce: ['kaliʃ] German: Kalisch) is a city in central Poland with 109,800 inhabitants (1995). Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, the city forms a conurbation with the nearby towns of Ostrów Wielkopolski and Skalmierzyce. Please also have a look at Kalisz County for the regional administrative commune (powiat).

The city is an important industrial and commercial centre of the area, with many notable factories located there. It is also the seat of the Calisia piano factory and one of traditional centres of folk art.

Sometimes Kalisz is called "the oldest town of Poland" because the mention by Ptolemy of a town called Calisia that was situated in the territory of the Diduni (Vandals) in Magna Germania on the Ambergris Trail. Although it is still not certain whether the exact spot where the city centre is located nowadays was inhabited in the 2nd century, there are many artefacts of the Roman times in the area, pointing to the fact that it must have been one of the stops of the Roman caravans heading for the Baltic Sea.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalisz
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Coordinates:   51°44'50"N   18°4'33"E

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  • romans traded with Balt tribes, epeccialy prussians. There's a lot roman coins in Lithuanian museums now, romans loves amber.
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