Konin

Konin stands by a crossing of the Warta in eastern Greater Poland. An older settlement lay near what became known as Stare Miasto; after its destruction by the Teutonic Knights in 1331, the town was re-established to the northeast. Casimir the Great built a royal castle and surrounded Konin with walls and a moat. Clothmaking and trade helped support the town.

Władysław Jagiełło stayed at the castle in the summer of 1433 while receiving news of a Polish campaign against the Teutonic Order. Konin gained the right to hold two fairs in 1425, and its sixteenth-century craftsmen included bakers, shoemakers and butchers. After Prussia annexed the town in 1793, Polish insurgents entered it during the Kościuszko Uprising. It later became part of the Duchy of Warsaw and Congress Poland.