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Brodnica ) is a town in northern Poland with 27,400 inhabitants (1995).

Situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Torun Voivodship (1975-1998).

The town's settlement began in 1262, and it received city rights in 1298. Brodnica fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1772, but was incorporated in the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. From 1815-1945 it was Prussian again, and afterwards Polish. Approximately 1,000 inhabitants were murdered during World War II.

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