Wieluń Land

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Wieluń Land (ziemia wieluńska) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)
Standard of the Land of Wieluń from the Battle of Grunwald in 1410
Wieluń District Coat of Arms

Wieluń Land (

Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a part of the historical Sieradz-Łęczyca Land (Polish: ziemia łęczycko-sieradzka). Wieluń Land for centuries was part of Sieradz Voivodeship in the Province of Greater Poland
.

Wieluń Land covers current the counties of

exclave). It covers about 3,000 km2 and has 200,000 inhabitants.

Duchy of Wieluń
(1370-1391)

History

Wieluń Land developed from the medieval

Dukes of Silesia. In 1281, the castellany was moved from Ruda to nearby Wieluń
. In both the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Wieluń Land had its own offices, and the Castellan of Wieluń was one of the Senators of Poland. The land had four starostas – at Wieluń itself, Ostrzeszów, Bolesławiec and Grabów nad Prosną. Two deputies to the Sejm were elected at Wieluń's Sejmiks. Furthermore, the Voivode of Sieradz was obliged to appoint his deputy from Wieluń[citation needed]. Wieluń Land had its own coat of arms, established between 1410 and 1434.

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