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Wieluń, once a royal castle and capital of the Wieluń region, has a centuries-old and rich history, which is witnessed by today's numerous monuments of the past. The latest archaeological research confirms the medieval settlement in the city at the beginning of the 13th century, and in the 1980s Wieluń becomes the seat of the castellany and receives city rights modeled on Kalisz. During the period of the district breakup, it was alternately under the rule of the Kalisz, Greater Poland and Silesian princes. In 1335 the wooden city burned down, and King Casimir the Great began its reconstruction. The city was surrounded by a defensive wall, a castle, 3 churches, 2 monasteries were erected and the main streets were rolled out. During the reign of Władysław Opolczyk, Wieluń became the capital of the principality. Opolczyk brought here Paulines, and silver denarii with the inscription "Moneta Velunes" were minted in the local mint. The Knights of Wieluń took part in the battle of Grunwald with their own banner. In 1424, King Władysław Jagiełło issued an edict directed against the Hussite movement called the "Wieluń edict." During the reign of the Jagiellon dynasty, who were frequent guests at the Wieluń Castle, the city received a number of favorable privileges. In the history of Wieluń, the 15th-16th centuries were called golden period. Numerous craft corporations operated in the city, specialists from Silesia worked in the construction of urban facilities, and municipal waterworks were established. At that time, a valuable silver reliquary was created, that is the Madonna of Wieluń, which was the decoration of the former parish church. The sons of Wieluń townsmen studied at the Krakow Academy. Hieronim Spiczyński - a translator of fragments of the Holy Bible into Polish - was born in Wieluń and Rotundus Mieleski - a political writer, lawyer and trusted administrator of King Zygmunt August, later the head of Vilnius. In the local parish school at the parish church our first historian Jan Długosz received his first lessons, while Piarist Father Hilary created symphonic music. Not without reason, therefore, Andrzej Trzecieski, a Renaissance poet and translator, wrote "a happy Wieluń who boasts so many great sons". In the Renaissance, Wieluń was included in the group of the most interesting cities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1588, the prisoner of the Wieluń order was a pretender to the Polish crown Maksymilian Habsburg. at the beginning of the 17th century churches and monasteries of the Bernardine Fathers and Franciscan Fathers were founded, numerous fires, epidemics and plagues, and especially the Swedish Deluge, initiated the gradual decline of Wieluń's significance and slowed its development for a long time. After the Second Partition of Poland, Wieluń and the Wieluń region came under Prussian rule (1793-1807). A year later, the inhabitants of Wieluń announced their accession to the Kościuszko Insurrection, and the armed movement was led by Fryderyk Pasarski. In 1816 Wieluń became part of the Russian partition. In the nineteenth century, a manuscript was created cloth invoice, a hospital and a new town hall were built, and a classical palace was built on the ruins of the Piast castle.