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Pyrzyce (see also Cities alternative names), is a town in Pomerania, north-western Poland, with some 11,000 inhabitants (1980)
Capital of the Pyrzyce County in West Pomeranian Voivodship(since 1999), previously in Szczecin Voivodship (1975-1998).
History
An anonymous medieval document of ca. 850, called Bavarian Geographer mentions the tribe of Pyritzans who have 70 strongholds (Prissani civitates LXX. )
Population
1950: ? inhabitants
1960: 5,500 inhabitants
1970: 8,800 inhabitants
1975: 10,800 inhabitants
1980: 11,600 inhabitants
1990: ? inhabitants
2000: ? inhabitants
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