Rawa Mazowiecka ' is a town in central Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, with 17,765 inhabitants (2004). It lies in the Łódź Voivodeship and is the capital of Rawa County

Rawa County

Rawa County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Rawa Mazowiecka, which lies east of...

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First mentioned in 1288, it received city rights in 1321.
From 1562 the city hosted the Rawa Treasury for the Polish-Lithuanian army. During an excavation in 1948, a horde dating from 600 BCE was found containing 4 underground rooms with barrels of gold and silver. A smaller treasure was found containing mainly bronze artifacts from the Trzciniec culture

Trzciniec culture

The Trzciniec culture was an ancient tradition that subsisted in central Europe. Archeologists speculate its existence to have been between the years 1700 and 1200 BC....

, dating from around 1700 BCE.

On 15 May 1958, a powerful tornado hit Rawa and damaged most of the buildings in the city.