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Late Middle Ages
Gliwice was first mentioned as a town in 1276 and was ruled during the Middle Ages by the Silesian Piast dukes. It became a possession of the Bohemia crown in 1335, passing with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs as Gleiwitz in 1526.

During the mid 18th century Silesian Wars, Gliwice was taken from Austria by the Kingdom of Prussia along with the majority of Silesia. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Gleiwitz was administered in the Prussian district of Tost-Gleiwitz within the Province of Silesia in 1816. The city was incorporated with Prussia into the German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany. In 1897 Gleiwitz became its own Stadtkreis, or urban district.

Gliwice is one of the odlest one city in the Silesia region. City in the past was sorrunded by the foss and defence wall, some parts are still visible in the many places.
Here is the one of the most beautiful old town in Silesia, with very visibly historical arrangement of the streets around the Town Hall. Lot of monuments of the past: churches (Baroque, Gothic, Middleage), castle building, modern schools. Conservatory orchard, Radiostation Gliwice (An attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz on August 31, 1939, staged by the German secret police, served as a pretext for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, which was the beginning of World War II).