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Biggest Cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with a Map
With the help of a map, can you name the most populous cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with an estimated population of over 5,000 at its territorial apex in 1618?
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Sources used for population estimates listed in this Pastebin.
Both historical and modern-day names accepted.
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Few minor suggestions: Greater Poland and lesser Poland in grey are way too big. Greater Poland was just a small part around Poznan. Eastward is Masovia. Likewise Lesser Poland is just a small area around Krakow, I certainly wouldn't stretch it anywhere near Lviv or certainly not further east, that's just not accurate. Another minor suggestion: I do not think of Braniewo when I see that location on the map, and I really doubt it reached 5K population at that time, since per wikipedia in (in Polish) its 1792 population was below 5K. I would instead consider Frombork, that was the main city in the area and where Copernicus worked.
To respond to your suggestions: The defintions of Greater Poland and Lesser Poland go by their defined old provincial boundaries and aren't comparable to the modern areas.
Braniewo is suggested to have been that populated around this time, especially as suggested by Paul Bairoch. City populations have always declined, increased and stagnated. A population count from almost two centuries later can thus absolutely be similar.
That being said, a main administrative city in the area usually doesn't really mean that it was the largest in the area.