Demographic tendencies in western Europe facilitated this “colonization.” The settlers—assured of personal independence, fixed rents, plus some measure of self-administration and operating beneath the so-named German Regulation—founded new villages and towns or reorganized previous ones. Towns acquired official charters (Wrocław in 1242, Poznań in 1253, Kraków in 1257) that offered https://polawedee.tumblr.com/