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Bydgoszcz is a part of the metroplex Bydgoszcz-Torun with Torun, only 30 km away, and over 700,000 inhabitants. In 2003 Medical Academy in Bydgoszcz joined Torun University.

1 History

Originally it was a fisher's settlement called Bydgoszcza (spelled Bydgostia in Latin), next a stronghold for the Vistula trade routes. In the 13th century it was a site of castellany , first mentioned in 1238. Bydgoszcz was occupied by the Teutonic Knights in years 1331-1337, recovered by the king Casimir the Great, who granted the municipal rights in 1346/ 1349.

In the 15th-16th centuries Bydgoszcz was a significant site of corn trade, one of the biggest cities in Poland. In 1657Events January 8 Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. April 20 Admiral Robert Blake destr the Treaty of BydgoszczThe Treaty of Bydgoszcz was a political act signed by the King of Poland Jan Kazimierz and the prince-elector of Brandenburg Frederick William I in the city of Bydgoszcz on November 6, 1657. The treaty (together with the earlier Treaty of Welawa) was to d was signed there.

Bydgoszcz followed the history of Greater PolandGreater Poland (sometimes Great Poland Polish: Wielkopolska German: Grosspolen Latin: Polonia Maior is one of the historical regions of Poland. It is located in western-central Poland, encompassing much of the area drained by the Warta River) and its trib until 1772Events February 17 First partition of Poland, by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria May Watauga Association formed in East Tennessee as the first independent Anglo-American government. June 9 British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island., when it was annexed by PrussiaThe word Prussia ( German: Preussen (Preussen Polish: Prusy Lithuanian: Prusai Latin: Borussia has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia. During this time, the canal was built from Bydgoszcz to Naklo which connected the north flowing Vistula river via the Brda to the west flowing NotecNotec (German: Netze Latin: Natissis is a river in central Poland, a tributary of the Warta river, with a length of 388 kilometres (7th longest) and the basin area of 17,330 sq. km (all in Poland). It flows out of the Kuiavia region, through Greater Polan, which in turn flowed to the Oder via the Warta. In 1807 became part of the Duchy of Warsaw ( French Duchy de Varsovie). In 1815 back to Prussia as the part of autonomous Grand Duchy of Poznan and capital of the one of the districts, called Bromberg district. After 1871 was included into German Empire as part Province of Posen. After World War I the Great Poland Uprising, returned to Poland in 1919. 1938 shifted to Pomerania Voivodship , where it was the biggest city. 1939- 1945 occupied by Germany and became part of the Reichsgau Wartheland. Some of the war's most violent early atrocities were centered here, known as Bromberg Bloody Sunday. Bydgoszcz ( Fordon ) was the site of the German concentration camp Bromberg-Ost, subcamp of Stutthof.