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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Dziwnów
| image_skyline = 20-08-09-Dziwnów-DK-101-0196-Pano.jpg
| imagesize = 250px
| image_caption = Aerial view of Dziwnów along the [[Baltic Sea]]
| image_flag = POL Dziwnów flag.svg
| image_shield = POL Dziwnów COA 1.svg
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|West Pomeranian Voivodeship|name=West Pomeranian}}
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kamień County|Kamień]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Dziwnów|Dziwnów]]
| established_title = First mentioned
| established_date = 1243
| established_title2 = Town rights
| established_date2 = 2004
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Łukasz Dzioch
| area_total_km2 = 4.93
| population_as_of = 31 December 2021<ref name="population">{{cite web|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/BDL/dane/teryt/jednostka|title=Local Data Bank|access-date=2022-08-02|publisher=Statistics Poland}} Data for territorial unit 3207014.</ref>
| population_total = 2595
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|54|1|N|14|45|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 72-420
| area_code = +48 91
| blank_name = [[Polish car number plates|Car plates]]
| blank_info = ZKA
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]s
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW102-PL.svg|32px|link=Voivodeship road 102 (Poland)]]
| website = https://www.dziwnow.pl
}}
'''Dziwnów''' {{IPAc-pl|'|dź|i|w|n|u|f}} ({{langx|de|Dievenow}})<ref>''Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße'' by M. Kaemmerer</ref> is a town in north-western [[Poland]] situated on the [[Baltic Sea]] at the mouth of the river [[Dziwna]] which divides it into the right-bank part containing the center of the town, belonging to historical [[Farther Pomerania]], while the left-bank part is located in [[Western Pomerania]], with both parts connected through a [[bascule bridge]]. It is a part and the seat of the eponymous [[Gmina Dziwnów|Dziwnów municipality]] within [[Kamień County]], [[West Pomeranian Voivodeship]]. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 2,595.<ref name = population />
==History==
[[File:Kościół w Dziwnowie.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Old church before being destroyed during World War II {{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}]] The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under its first ruler [[Mieszko I]] around 967<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Labuda|first=Gerard|year=1993|title=Chrystianizacja Pomorza (X–XIII stulecie)|magazine=Studia Gdańskie|language=pl|location=Gdańsk-Oliwa|volume=IX|page=47}}</ref> and the [[battle at Julin Bridge]] took place nearby in 1170. The first mentioning of the village in chronicles dates back to 1243.<ref name=DZ>{{cite web|url=https://www.dziwnow.pl/asp/pl_start.asp?typ=14&menu=110&strona=1&sub=4&subsub=30|title=Historia Dziwnowa|website=dziwnów.pl|access-date=26 November 2019|language=pl}}</ref> It remained a small fishing village in a sparsely populated area. This changed when the village came under [[Prussia|Prussian]] rule and more people started to settle in the village. Due to its seaside location the village slowly transformed from a fishing village into a holiday resort.<ref name=DZ/> At the end of the 19th century, salt springs were discovered, and the first sanatorium was established.<ref name=DZ/> As a result the town became a popular spa town in the [[German Empire]]. In the 1930s, military barracks were built.<ref name=DZ/> During [[World War II]], in June 1944, [[United States Army|American army]] conducted air raids on the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] garrison in the village.<ref name=DZ/> The historic church was destroyed in the final stages of the war{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}. Polish troops entered in the city May 1945 and the [[Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)|German population was expelled or fled]].<ref name=DZ/> In accordance with the [[Potsdam Agreement]] the city became part of the [[Polish People's Republic]].
In 1949 and 1950 in the local garrison there was a military hospital for Greeks and Macedonians wounded in the [[Greek Civil War]].<ref name=DZ/><ref name=IK>{{cite book|last=Kubasiewicz|first=Izabela|editor-last1=Dworaczek|editor-first1=Kamil|editor-last2=Kamiński|editor-first2=Łukasz|year=2013|title=Letnia Szkoła Historii Najnowszej 2012. Referaty|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|pages=116–117|chapter=Emigranci z Grecji w Polsce Ludowej. Wybrane aspekty z życia mniejszości}}</ref> In total, around 2,000 people were treated there.<ref name=IK/> Later on, in the 1950s, the hospital staff co-created the Military Medical Academy in [[Łódź]].<ref name=DZ/> In 1958 Dziwnów was granted [[urban-type settlement]] status and afterwards a port was built.<ref name=DZ/> The development of the settlement in the following decades led to the granting of municipal rights in 2004.<ref name=DZ/> From 1964 to 1986, the 1st Assault Battalion, which was considered one of the best trained units in the history of the Polish Army, was stationed in Dziwnów.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dziwnow.pl/asp/pl_start.asp?typ=14&menu=111&strona=1&sub=4&subsub=30|title=1 Batalion Szturmowy|website=dziwnów.pl|access-date=26 November 2019|language=pl}}</ref>
In 2004, Dziwnów received town privileges<ref>{{Cite web |title=History - Municipality of Dziwnów |url=https://www.dziwnow.pl/asp/en_start.asp?typ=14&sub=142&menu=146&strona=1 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=www.dziwnow.pl}}</ref>
==International relations==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland}}
Dziwnów is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web|title=Miasta Partnerskie|url=https://www.dziwnow.pl/asp/pl_start.asp?typ=14&sub=4&subsub=89&menu=102&strona=1|website=dziwnow.pl|publisher=Gmina Dziwnów|language=pl|access-date=2022-08-02}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|POL}} [[Gorzów Wielkopolski]], [[Poland]] (2014)
*{{flagicon|POL}} [[Sosnowiec]], Poland (2013)
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Werneuchen]], [[Germany]] (1993)
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Port Dziwnów.JPG|Fishing Port
File:Dziwnów7.JPG|Yacht Quay
File:Dziwnów, podniesiony most.jpg|Bascule bridge
File:Plaża w Dziwnowie(Aw58).JPG|Beach
</gallery>
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Dziwnów}}
* [http://www.dziwnow.pl/ Official town website]
* [http://www.dziwnow.info/ Tourist town website]
{{Gmina Dziwnów}}
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[[Category:Cities and towns in West Pomeranian Voivodeship]]
[[Category:Kamień County]]
[[Category:Populated riverside places in Poland]]
[[Category:Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea]]
[[Category:Port cities and towns in Poland]]