Lomza

Łomża

(lôm`zhä), town (1991 est. pop. 61,400), Podlaskie prov., NE Poland, on the Narew River. It is a railway terminus. Industries include food processing and paper and textile milling. Łomża dates from c.1000; it passed to Prussia in 1795 and to Russia in 1815 and reverted to Poland in 1921.

Łomża

 

a city in northeastern Poland, on the Narew River, and the administrative center of Łomża Województwo. Population, 26,400 (1972). The chief industries are food-processing enterprises, a flax-processing mill, and a cotton textile factory (1971). Construction of a silk factory was begun in 1973. [15-8-1; updated]