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Extract from the Pinczw Travel Guides:
Southeast of Jedrzejw, 28km along the quiet backroads of Malopolska, the contemporary rural anonymity of
PINCZW
belies the town's notable historical role. The old limestone quarries in evidence around the town were long an important source of stone for church building throughout the country. Along with nearby Rakw, Pinczw rose to prominence during the latter half of the sixteenth century as one of the chief centres of Protestant agitation in Reformation-era Poland, a group of Calvinist divines establishing an academy and a printing press responsible, among other things, for publication of the first Polish grammar in 1568. The town and...
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