Toruń
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Toruń

Toruń (in German: Thorn) is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula river. It had 206,000 inhabitants in 2009. The mediaeval town, the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, is listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Previously the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975-98) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921-39), since 1999 Toruń has been one of the capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, as the the bipolar agglomeration of Bydgoszcz-Toruń with Bydgoszcz was created. The Medical Academy in Bydgoszcz joined the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń as the Collegium Medicum.
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Polonica stamps:

Hungary 1973, 19 II
 Vatican City 1973, 19 VI