Lublin

Lublin is a city in eastern Poland. It's in the Lublin Voivodeship. It has an area of 147.5 km2. About 354,000 people live in Lublin.  It is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River.  The Bystrzyca river, a tributary of the Wieprz river, passes through the city and divides it into two parts: western, with a more varied relief with loess gorges, and eastern, which is flat. In the southern part of the city there is the artificial Zemborzyce Lake created by damming Bystrzyca. It is on the route between Vilnius and Kraków.

It was started in the 6th or 7th century. City walls were built in the 1340s. The Lublin Parliament session of 1569 led to the  union between  the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which became  the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.  It was  an important national centre of Arianism.  it was ruined in the wars of the 17th century.
The National Museum, Lublin is now in the Lublin Castle which was started in the 12th century.

There are five public universities:

 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University 
 John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
 Medical University of Lublin
 University of Life Sciences in Lublin
 Politechnika Lubelska

Lublin Airport (Port Lotniczy Lublin) (IATA: LUZ) is about 10 km (6.2 miles) SE of Lublin.  Trains go from Lublin Główny railway station to the major cities in Poland. There are local trains.   It is one of only four towns in Poland to have trolleybuses.

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Category:Cities in Lublin Voivodeship