Radzymin

See also: Radzymin, Płońsk County

Radzymin
Church on Main Square
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Wołomin
Gmina	Radzymin
Established	13th century
Town rights	1475
Government
• Mayor	Zbigniew Piotrowski
Area
• Total	23.32 km2 (9.00 sq mi)
Population  (2008)
• Total	8,818
• Density	380/km2 (980/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	05-250
Area code	+48 22
Car plates	WWL
Website	http://radzymin.pl

Radzymin [raˈd͡zɨmʲin] is a town in Poland and is one of the distant suburbs of the city of Warsaw. It is located in the powiat of Wołomin of the Masovian Voivodeship. The town has 8,818 inhabitants (as of 2008, but the surrounding commune is heavily populated and has an additional 11,000 inhabitants).

Radzymin was located by Bolesław IV of Warsaw in 1440. It was granted with a town charter in 1475. Since then, the town shared the fate of the nearby city of Warsaw, located only 25 kilometers (16 mi) away.

The town is notable for two major battles that took place there in the 20th century − the Battle of Radzymin (1920) and Battle of Radzymin (1944).

It is the birthplace of the linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay. Nobel laureate in Literature Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Leoncin, but lived in Radzymin during childhood (though some sources claims Radzymin as his birthplace)

External links

• radzymin.pl
• Jewish Community in Radzymin on Virtual Shtetl