Jasło

Jasło grew in the southern part of Lesser Poland, in the old castellany of Biecz. Its lands belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Koprzywnica, and a local fair was held here by the middle of the thirteenth century. Casimir the Great granted the settlement Magdeburg rights in 1366. Two years later he exchanged other properties with the monks to bring Jasło into royal possession. The town already had a parish church and school, and Carmelite friars also settled there in the fourteenth century.