Facts About Radom
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The international Radom Jazz Festival and the International Gombrowicz Theater Festival are held in the city.
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The city is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and best-attended air show in Poland, held during the last weekend of August.
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Radom’s original settlement dates back to the 8th–the 9th century. It was an early medieval town in the valley of the Mleczna River.
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Radom is the fourteenth largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the voivodeship.
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In 1376, the city became the seat of a starosta, and entered the period of its greatest prosperity.
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The Pact of Vilnius and Radom was signed there in 1401, and the Nihil Novi and Łaski’s Statute were adopted by the Sejm at Radom’s Royal Castle in 1505.
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Radom is twinned with: Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; Daugavpils, Latvia; Homyel, Belarus; Huzhou, Zhejiang, China; Magdeburg, Germany; Ozyory, Moscow Oblast, Russia; Ploiești, Romania; Vilnius District Municipality, Lithuania; Stara Zagora, Bulgaria; Taoyuan District, Taiwan; Talavera de la Reina, Spain & Ternopil, Ukraine.
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The Population of Radom is 211,371 as of 2019.
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In 1364, Radom’s obsolete Środa Śląska rights were replaced with more modern Magdeburg rights, and residents gained several privileges as a result.
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The Łucznik Arms Factory, located in Radom, continues to produce modern military firearms.
