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Peterski
07-03-2018, 12:33 AM
King Casimir III built many castles and surrounded many smaller towns with stone walls, including Opoczno. Reconstruction of a small (III category) Polish town, Opoczno, ca. year 1365:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoczno


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrra2-bNLNM

Polish towns were divided into 4 categories (I = largest city, IV = smallest town).

See here on pages 114-121 the list of towns and cities by region and by category:

https://bon.edu.pl/media/book/pdf/Dzieje_miast_i_mieszczanstwa-MB.pdf

Those categories were used for tax collection and for mobilization of soldiers.