Demographic trends in western Europe facilitated this “colonization.” The settlers—assured of non-public freedom, mounted rents, and some measure of self-administration and running underneath the so-known as German Regulation—Established new villages and towns or reorganized old ones. Towns received official charters (Wrocław in 1242, Poznań in 1253, Kraków in 1257) that https://polawede.tumblr.com/