High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of the Germans in Poland dates back over a millennium. Poland was the largest kingdom in Europe. By comparison Poland was the most multi-ethnic state during the medieval period. It covered an immense plain with no natural boundaries, and the population, which was very thinly scattered, belonged to several races. Besides the Poles themselves, there were Germans in the cities of West Prussia and Ruthenians in Lithuania. The immigrants were largely German settlers. The Polish princes granted the Germans in the cities complete autonomy according to the "Teutonic right" (later, "Magdeburg right"), and in that way in Poland there emerged cities of the German medieval type. Before the 13th century was over, around one hundred Polish towns had Magdeburg-style municipal institutions. The governing classes in these towns were increasingly German and German-speaking. At the synod of Leczyca in 1285, Archbishop Jakub Swinka of Gniezno warned...

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