Demographic tendencies in western Europe facilitated this “colonization.” The settlers—assured of private independence, fastened rents, and a few evaluate of self-administration and functioning under the so-termed German Law—Established new villages and cities or reorganized old kinds. Towns been given formal charters (Wrocław in 1242, Poznań in 1253, Kraków in 1257) https://polawede.tumblr.com/