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Zamośćzä'môstsyə, Rus. Zamostye, town (1993 pop. 63,500),Lubelskie prov., SE Poland, on the Łabuńką River. It is a commercial center, trading mainly in agricultural products. The town's chief industries are meat processing and the manufacture of furniture and clothing. Zamość was founded in 1579 by a Polish chancellor, Jan Zamojski, who also established a college there. The town defended itself against a Cossack invasion in 1648 and against the Swedish king Charles X in 1656. The city passed to Austria in 1772 and to Russia in 1815; it reverted to Poland after World War I.
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Zamość is a town in southeastern Poland with 66,633 inhabitants, situated in the Lublin Voivodeship. About 20 kilometres from the town is the Roztocze National Park.
The historical city centre was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Zamość was founded in the year 1580 by the Chancellor and Hetman Jan Zamoyski, on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea.
Modelled on Italian trading cities, and built during the Baroque period by the architect Bernardo Morando, a native of Padua, Zamość remains a perfect example of a Renaissance town of the late 16th century, which retains its original layout and fortifications,...more »
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- Peretz, Isaac Loeb
Peretz or Perez, Isaac Loeb, 1852–1915, Jewish poet, novelist, playwright, and lawyer, b. Zamosc, Poland. A voice of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, Peretz was often accused of radicali...
- Zamojski, Jan
Zamojski or Zamoyski, Jan, 1542–1605, Polish statesman, general, and author. He championed the rights of the lesser nobility; after the extinction (1572) of the Jagiello dynasty, he used his i...
