Monday 9 July 2018

PL-1475252 Dębica , Poland

Dębica is a city in southeastern Poland with about 50,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of Dębica County. Since the mid-1930s Dębica, in spite of its size, has been a large industrial hub. A number of companies were then created thanks to governmental industry development programmes. Most of them still exist today, though they were privatized in the 1990s. Since the early 1990s, a relatively large number (in proportion to the city's size) of successful companies have been started and run by local residents.

History:
In 1358 King Kazimierz Wielki gave a local nobleman Świętosław Gryfita, permission to found a town and Dębica received Magdeburg rights, together with a privilege to organise weekly markets on Wednesdays. The town however, was not actually founded until June 10, 1372.

I received this postcard from Aga (Postcrossing, July 2018).  It shows several buildings of Dębica and the largest panel shows the monument of King Kazimierz Wielki giving permission to Świętosław Gryfita to create Dębica.

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