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Wroclaw was further weakened by the so-called Szaber, which transferred goods to Central Poland, and the campaign "bricks for Warsaw" by the Polish government ten years later, which provided reconstruction material for the levelled Old Town of the Polish capital. This loss of historic structures was irreversible and the consequences are still ...
As of 2023, the official population of Wrocław is 674,132 making it the third largest city in Poland. The population of the Wrocław metropolitan area is around 1.25 million. Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia. Today, it is the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
Population: 1,000 (approximate). 1037 - Pagan Uprising. 1038 - Bohemians in power. 1054 - Poles in power. 1109 - August 24: Battle of Hundsfeld , Polish victory against the invading Germans. ca. 1112/1118 - Wrocław named one of the three major cities of the Polish Kingdom alongside Kraków and Sandomierz in the Gesta principum Polonorum.
History of Wrocław after 1945 refers to the history of Wrocław since the end of World War II. The post-war history of the city can be divided into four main periods: 1945–1948 – settlement and reconstruction, 1948–1981 – the shaping of its identity as a Polish city and its dynamic development,
The 1950 census (3 December 1950) showed the population rise to 25,008,000, and the 1960 census (6 December 1960) placed the population of Poland at 29,776,000. [57] In 1950, Warsaw was the biggest city of the country, with population of 804,000.
Historical demography is the quantitative study of human population in the past. It is concerned with population size, with the three basic components of population change (fertility, mortality, and migration), and with population characteristics related to those components, such as marriage, socioeconomic status, and the configuration of families.
Poland's population has been growing quickly after World War II, during which the country lost millions of citizens.Population passed 38 million in the late 1980s and has since then stagnated within the 38.0-38.6 million range until the 2020s where the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the baby boom generation starting to die out and a baby boost started to overlap.
The population living in the agglomeration is about 1.25 million people. In the case of the Wrocław agglomeration, its area is not strongly urbanized in its entirety. The agglomeration is defined as an area that is economically and geographically linked to Wrocław.