Located on the Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, at roughly 40km north from the Sudeten Mountains, Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia. In the 10th century, the Bohemian duke Vratislaus I founded here a Bohemian stronghold, Vratislavia, probably named after the duke's name. In 990, Duke Mieszko I of Poland conquered Silesia including Wroclaw. The chronicle Gesta principum Polonorum, written in 1112-1116, named Wrocław, along with Kraków and Sandomierz, as one of the three capitals of the Polish Kingdom.
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