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... o the 10th century. The first mention in the Russian chronicles of the burning down by the Lithuanians and Russians of the wooden township of Mazovian princes located in Jazdów, where the Botanical Gardens can be found today, comes from the year 1262. Jazdów was conquered and pillaged for a second time in 1281 and was most probably never rebuilt. Towards the end of the 13th century, some few kilometres north of Jazdów, a new town of Mazovian princes was established on a high embankment of the Vistula River. Its location corresponds with that of the Royal Castle. This settlement was Warsaw. The first mention of the new town comes from a document dating from the year 1313. In 1339 the Papal court of law sat in Warsaw, the capital of the neutral Mazovian Principality, to decide the dispute between King Kazimierz Wielki and the Ord... Read all>>