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{{other places|Piastów (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Piastów
| image_shield = POL Piastów COA 1.svg
| image_skyline = Liceum Ogólnokształcące z Oddziałami Dwujęzycznymi im. Adama Mickiewicza w Piastowie.jpg
| image_caption = Municipal Public Library in Piastów
| 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 = [[Masovian Voivodeship|Masovian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Pruszków County|Pruszków]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = Piastów <small>(urban gmina)</small>
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Tomasz Krzysztof Jankowski
| established_title = Established
| established_date = 16th century as '''Żdżary'''
| established_title3 = Town rights
| established_date3 = 1952
| area_total_km2 = 5.83
| area_urban_km2 = 5.76
| population_as_of = 2014
| population_total = 22826
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_urban = 22826
| population_density_urban_km2 = 4050.5
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|52|11|N|20|51|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 05-820
| area_code = +48 22
| blank_name = [[Polish car number plates|Car plates]]
| blank_info = WPR
| website = http://piastow.pl/ 
}}
'''Piastów''' {{IPAc-pl|'|p|J|a|s|t|u|f}} is a town in central [[Poland]] in the [[Masovian Voivodeship]],{{TERYT}} within the [[Warsaw metropolitan area]], with 23,331 inhabitants (2006 est). With 3963 persons/km², it is the second most [[population density|densely populated]] township in Poland (after [[Świętochłowice]]).

==Geography==
{{Adjacent communities|width=auto|state=expanded
| Centre = Piastów
| E = [[Warsaw]]
| SE = [[Reguły]]
| SW = [[Pruszków]]
| N = [[Konotopa, Warsaw West County|Konotopa]]
}}

==History==
[[File:Park Niepodleglosci w Piastowie (2).jpg|thumb|left|Memorial to soldiers of the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|resistance movement]] killed in the fight against the Nazi occupiers]]
In the Middle Ages, the villages of Żdżary and Utrata existed in the place of today's Piastów.

Following the joint German-Soviet [[invasion of Poland]], which started [[World War II]] in September 1939, Piastów was [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|occupied by Germany]] until January 1945. In early 1940, 100 [[Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany|expelled Poles]] from [[Poznań]] were deported to Piastów.<ref name=gp29>{{cite magazine|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=July 2019|title=Działalność Polskiego Czerwonego Krzyża w Piastowie w okresie okupacji|magazine=Czas Piastowa|language=pl|issue=29|pages=6–7|issn=2543-8336}}</ref> The local branch of the [[Polish Red Cross]] looked after Polish displaced persons, treated the wounded, organised food parcels for local Poles held in [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|German prisoner-of-war camps]] and conducted secret sanitary and rescue training.<ref name=gp29/> The last pre-war chief of the Piastów police station was murdered by the Russians in [[Tver]] in the [[Katyn massacre]] in 1940.<ref name=gp30>{{cite magazine|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=August 2019|title=Historia ilustrowana cz. XXVI|magazine=Czas Piastowa|language=pl|issue=30|page=4|issn=2543-8336}}</ref> During the Warsaw Uprising, in August 1944, Poles expelled by the Germans from [[Wola]] came to Piastów.<ref name=gp29/> From October 1944 to March 1945, the Poles ran an infectious disease hospital where Polish refugees from Warsaw and Jews hid, as the Germans were afraid to enter the hospital.<ref name=gp29/>

From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the [[Warsaw Voivodeship (1975-1998)|Warsaw Voivodship]].
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==Sights==
There are several memorials to victims and [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|partisans]] of [[World War II]].<ref name=gp30/>

==Transport==
Piastów is served by [[Piastów railway station]].

Piastów is supported by the [[Warsaw]] [[ZTM Warszawa|ZTM]] system with 2 lines: 716 and 717{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}}.

716: Warsaw: Cmentarz Wolski – [[Fort Wola]] – Wolska – [[Połczyńska Street, Warsaw|Połczyńska]] – [[Gierdziejewskiego]] – [[Jagiełły]] – Warszawska – [[Keniga]] – [[Orląt Lwowskich]] – Warszawska – Piastów: Warszawska – [[al. Wojska Polskiego]] – [[Sowińskiego]] – Ogińskiego

717: Warsaw: Dw. Zachodni – [[Aleje Jerozolimskie]] – [[Michałowice, Pruszków County|Michałowice]]: Aleje Jerozolimskie – Piastów: [[Al. Tysiąclecia]] – Al. Wojska Polskiego – Sowińskiego – Ogińskiego

==References==
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship]]
[[Category:Pruszków County]]
[[Category:World War II sites in Poland]]


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