Szamotuły

Szamotuły lies northwest of Poznań in Greater Poland. Mentioned in documents in 1231, it had fairs established by Duke Przemysł I before 1257 and received town rights by 1383 or earlier. It was a private town of the Polish nobility in Poznań County, within the Polish Crown's Greater Poland province. Górka Castle recalls the noble families associated with the town.

The town's market connected it with the surrounding countryside. Its medieval privileges and noble ownership placed local exchange within the institutions of the Polish kingdom and, later, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The partitions of Poland brought changes of sovereignty to Greater Poland at the end of the eighteenth century.