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Gostynin

Gostynin is a town in the Masovian Voivodeship of central Poland, north of Łódź and west of Warsaw. In the Middle Ages it was a castle town of the dukes of Masovia, and after 1462 its land formed part of the Rawa Voivodeship of the Polish Crown. The deposed Russian tsar Vasily IV Shuysky died in captivity in Gostynin castle in 1612.

Gostynin
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Duchy of Rawa

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