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Wołów in the Lower Silesian Voivodship of southern Poland was founded in 1288. The name is probably derived from the Polish word wół, which means bull. The oldest known seal of the town dates from 1473 and already shows a bull, as do all later seals. Until 1675 Wołów was a residence of the Piast Dukes of Legnica-Brzeg-Wołów (Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau). For centuries the nearby Cistercian abbey of Lubiąż (Leubus) was a cultural centre of Lower Silesia.
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