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  1. City in Poland, on the river Vistula;
  2. population (1985) 716,000. It is an
  3. industrial centre producing railway wagons,
  4. paper, chemicals, and tobacco. It was capital
  5. of Poland c. 1300-1595. Founded about 1400,
  6. its university, at which the astronomer
  7. Copernicus was a student, is one of the
  8. oldest in central Europe. There is a
  9. 14th-century Gothic cathedral.
  10.