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Population explosion
12021-01-20T10:19:33-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f591Baedeker noteplain2021-01-20T10:19:33-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5The Handbook notes that in 1793, the population of Lodz was 190. And in 1860 it was 60,000.
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12021-01-19T12:38:40-05:00Lodz12Baedeker locationplain2021-01-20T10:25:18-05:0051.77058, 19.47395After river-crossings and town-passings, the train - had I been on it - would have arrived in this "long straggling place" on sandy hills, with its assortment of hotels and restaurants, the odd theater, and nearly half a million residents (220,000 Poles, 121,000 Germans, 100,000 Jews) engaged, directly or indirectly, in the textile industry. Alternate placenames: Лодзь Distance from Kalisz: 105 versts