Lublin (loo'-blin^)
Lublin, an industrial and commercial city in southeastern Poland, lies about
160 km (100 mi) southeast of Warsaw.
The population is 339,500 (1989 est.). Manufactures include motor vehicles,
farming equipment, and food products. Lublin has several colleges, a Roman
Catholic university, and many museums. Founded in the late 9th century,
the city grew around a 12th-century castle and was chartered in 1317. It was already a prosperous commercial center in 1569, when the Union
of Lublin (between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
was signed there. Under Austrian rule from 1795, Lublin passed to Russian Poland
in 1815 and to the Polish republic in 1918. In 1941 the Germans established
the Majdanek concentration camp on the outskirts of the city; the camp is
now a museum.
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