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   Mrzygłód was founded in 1431 by king Jagiełło, as a town with the name Tyrawa Królewska, which means Royal Tyrawa. Earlier, in the village of Tyrawa. a church was built by prisoners from the Battle of Grunwald , 15 July 1410, in which the combined forces of Polish and Lithuanian knights delivered a decisive defeat to the Teutonic knights.
   The name Mrzygłód is believed to have been used by the original owners of the surrounding lands, the Pilecki family, which also owned property of the same name elsewhere in Poland. For many years the town prospered, from the fairs at which trade was carried out, from the export of salt mined across the river at Tyrawa Solna (the Salt Tyrawa), from the manufacture of pottery.
   In the 18th and 19C., wars, fires and disastrous floods resulted in a substantial decline of Tyrawa Królewska. In 1945, reduced to a poor village, it lost its privileges as a registered town. A planned dam downstream on the river would have totally flooded the village and no further development was allowed until after 1990, when this plan was canceled. See Debna-Mrzyglod page for more information and map.
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