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Limanowa is an administrative, economic, and cultural center. The town is well-prepared to receive tourists. In a local school, American students meet every year during the summer holidays. Traveling to Limanowa is easy as it has connections with the main southern cities of Poland. HISTORY Limanowa became a town when in 1565 Polish king gave it urban rights. The rights were renewed in 1924 . In World War I , Limanowa was located at the Eastern Front . At the start of the war, it the site of the Battle of Limanowa between December 1 st and December 9 th, 1914 in which the Austro-Hungarian Army repelled a Russia n breakthrough southwestwards between Limanowa and Krakow . During the Second World War there was a Ghetto in Limanowa in which the Nazis murdered 50% of Jew ish population of Limanowa. There was also a refinery taken over by the Nazis and being one of the main sources of oil for the Nazi army in this part of Poland. EXTERNAL LINK
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