Piotrkow

Piotrkow (Ger. Petrikau), a town of Russian Poland, 87 miles by rail SW. of Warsaw. Cotton and wool spinning is largely prosecuted. It is one of the oldest Polish towns; here in the 15th and 16th centuries diets were held and the kings elected. Pop. 24,866.—The government has an area of 4730 sq. m. and a population of (1891) 1,200,197, and is a centre of the cotton and woollen industries, of brandy-distilling, and of corn-milling.