Calisia was a "station" on so-called "Amber Road", mentioned by Ptolemy, formerly universally identified with Kalisz. The Amber Road (in Lithuanian: Gintaro kelias; Polish: Szlak Bursztynowy, Jantarowy Szlak; in German: Bernsteinstraße; in Hungarian: Borostyán út, in Russian: Янтарный путь) was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber. ... A medieval artists rendition of Claudius Ptolemaeus Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: ; c. ... Kalisz (pronounce: [kaliʃ]) is a city in central Poland with 109,800 inhabitants (1995). ...
Ptolemy in his "Geographike Hyphegesis" describes Calisia at 52° 50' N.B. (actually: 51° 47').
The name is well-known, firstly from his Geography as an important communication node on grounds north of the limes, and secondly from an inscription which a Roman squadron under the command of M. Valesius Maximianus spending the winter 179/180 near Trencin (Slovakia) left on a rock and from a biography that this commander engraved on a monument in Diana Veteranorum (Algeria). Calisia, according to Ptolemy, was situated on almost the same latitude as Leukaristos. Trenčín (Hungarian: Trencsén, German: Trentschin, Latin (Roman period): Laugaricio) is a town in western Slovakia (close to the Czech border) at the Váh river. ...
The second argument is the location by the ancient geographer of the place known in Dacian as Setidava north of Calisia, which would be acceptable in Slovakia, but not in Central Poland. The Dacian language was an Indo-European language spoken by the ancient people of Dacia. ...
Superficially, the results of new research - especially acceptance of the identity of Ptolemy's Leukaristos and Laugaritio / Leugaritio - do not have much evidence for this hypothesis.
Calisia was a "station on so-called "Amber Trail", mentioned by Ptolemy, formerly universally identified with Kalisz.
Calisia, according to Ptolemy, was situated on almost the same latitude as Leukaristos.
The second argument is the location by the ancient geographer of the place known in Dacian as Setidava north of Calisia, which would be acceptable in Slovakia, but not in Central Poland.
It is also the seat of the Calisia piano factory and one of traditional centres of folk art.
Although it is still not certain whether the exact spot where the city centre is located nowadays was inhabitated in 2nd century, there are many artifacts of the Roman times in the area, pointing to the fact that it must have been one of the stops of the Roman caravans heading for the Baltic Sea.
It is notable for the Calisia piano factory, but also for Winiary and Ziołopex food processing plants (the earlier is now part of the Nestle group), Big Star jeans factory, Hellena, Jutrzenka and Kaliszanka soft drink production plants.
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