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Toruń

American  
[taw-roon-yuh] / ˈtɔˌrʊn yə /

noun

  1. a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula.


Toruń British  
/ ˈtɔrunj /

noun

  1. German name: Thorn.  an industrial city in N Poland, on the River Vistula: developed around a castle that was founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1230; under Prussian rule (1793–1919). Pop: 214 000 (2005 est)

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EnergaCamerimage will take place Nov. 16 -23 in Toruń.

From Los Angeles Times

These were eventually used to create a museum in her hometown of Toruń.

From BBC

Elżbieta Zawacka was born in 1909 in the city of Toruń, a part of Poland which had been under the control of Prussia, then later Germany, for nearly a century.

From BBC

"The padlock shows people were afraid of this child after its death," Dariusz Poliński, an archaeologist at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, told Live Science.

From Scientific American

Copernicus was born in Toruń, Poland, in 1473.

From Scientific American