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Gniezno

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Gniezno

Industrial town and commercial centre in Poznań province, Poland, 48 km/30 mi east of Poznań; population (2002) 70,000. Industries include machinery, chemicals, and food processing, and cattle are traded. Gniezno is where the Polish state is said to have been founded; its archbishopric, the first in Poland, was established in 1000 by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, and Polish kings were crowned here until 1320.



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In December 1939 August Cardinal Hlond of Gniezno and Poznan, the exiled Roman Catholic Primate of Poland, submitted several reports to the Vatican describing Nazi atrocities against the Catholic Church in Poland and Catholic and Jewish civilians.
 
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