Brzeg ([bʐɛk]ⓘ; Latin: Alta Ripa, German: Brieg, Silesian German: Brigg, Silesian: Brzeg, Brzyg, Czech: Břeh) is a town in southwestern Poland with 34,778 inhabitants (December 2021)[2] and the capital of Brzeg County. It is situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder river.
The town of Brzeg was first mentioned as a trading and fishing settlement within fragmented Piast-ruled Poland in 1234.[3] In 1248, Silesian Duke Henry III the White granted the settlement Magdeburg town rights and by the late 13th century the city became fortified. Sometimes referred to as "the garden town", the town's size greatly expanded after the construction of dwelling houses which were located on the city outskirts. From the early 14th to late 17th centuries, the town was ruled by the Piast dynasty as fiefs of the Bohemian Crown within the Holy Roman Empire. Later, as the result of the Silesian Wars, the town passed to Prussia, and from 1871 to 1945 it was also part of Germany, before it became again part of Poland after World War II.
^"Historia miejscowości - Informacje o mieście - Brzeg - Wirtualny Sztetl". www.sztetl.org.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 26 August 2017.
^ ab"Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 2022-06-02. Data for territorial unit 1601011.
^"Local history - Information about the town - Brzeg - Virtual Shtetl". Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
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