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Other names of the town:
Litzmannstadt [German] (between 11 April 1940 and January 1945).
Łódź is a province capital located in central Poland.
Łódź is crossed by 18 larger and smaller rivers and streams: Ner, Łódka (former name: Ostroga) and their tributaries: Bałutka, Dobrzynka, Gadka, Jasień and its tributary Karólewka, Olechówka and its tributary Augustówka, Jasieniec – tributary of Ner, the source section of Bzura and its first right tributary Łagiewniczanka, Sokołówka and its tributaries Brzoza, Aniołówka and Wrząca, Zimna Woda (tributary of Aniołówka) – tributaries of Bzura, and (when taking into account also Nowosolna) Miazga (tributary of Wolbórka). These are small flows and in the city centre, mostly hidden in underground canals[1.1].
Łódź is the crossing point of major railways: from Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań, and Częstochowa.
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[1.1] http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA#Warunki_przyrodnicze
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