Radzymin

Radzymin is a town in Poland, one of the outer suburbs of the Warsaw metropolitan area, in Wolomin County of the Masovian Voivodeship, about 25 kilometres from Warsaw. It had 8,818 inhabitants in 2008, and the surrounding commune holds roughly 11,000 more. The town dates to the Middle Ages, was mentioned in a document of Duke Boleslaw IV of Warsaw in 1440 and received a town charter in 1475. Long a private town of Polish nobility, it passed to Prussia in 1795, to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 and to the Russian Partition in 1815. It was the scene of fighting in the Austro-Polish War of 1809, a skirmish in the January Uprising of 1863, the decisive Battle of Radzymin in August 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War, and another battle in August 1944. A narrow gauge commuter railway linked it to Warsaw from 1896 to 1974, and it now has a station on the Warsaw Northern Bypass Railway Line. Its football club, Mazur Radzymin, was founded in 1923.