Bydgoszcz County (Polish: powiat bydgoski ) is a powiat (county) in Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The county seat is the town of Bydgoszcz and the powiat includes the area around it, but not the city itself which forms its own separate urban powiat. The population numbers 93,735 (2005). Its area is 1394.8 km². A powiat (pronounced povyat; plural, powiaty) is the Polish third-level unit of administration, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (NUTS-3) in some countries. ... Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (in Polish Województwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie) is an administrative region, or voivodeship, in central-northern Poland. ... Bydgoszcz ( ; German: ; Latin: Bydgostia) is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers, with a population of 369,151 (2004). ...
Land counties: Aleksandrów • Brodnica • Bydgoszcz • Chełmno • Golub-Dobrzyń • Grudziądz • Inowrocław • Lipno • Mogilno • Nakło • Radziejów • Rypin • Sępólno • Świecie • Toruń • Tuchola • Wąbrzeźno • Włocławek • Żnin Bydgoszcz ( ; German: ; Latin: Bydgostia) is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers, with a population of 369,151 (2004). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... ToruÅ (?· i; German: ; Kashubian: , see also other names) is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula river. ... WÅocÅawek (pronounce: [vÈoʦwavek]) is a town in central Poland on the Vistula river, with population of approximately 123 000. ... Lipno County (Polish: ) is a powiat (county) in Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. ... Torun County is county in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship with capital in Torun. ...
Bydgoszcz is a part of the metroplex Bydgoszcz-Torun with Torun, only 30 km away, and over 700,000 inhabitants.
Bydgoszcz was occupied by the Teutonic Knights in years 1331-1337, recovered by the king Casimir the Great, who granted the municipal rights in 1346/1349.
Bydgoszcz followed the history of Greater Poland until 1772, when it was annexed by Prussia.