Greater Poland, from Oppeln to Kielce

Briefly, today: a section of Poland north of Krakow, affected by the heavily populated areas surrounded by Galicia, Silesia, Lodz and Warsaw, the last two off map to the northwest and northeast. Thus, a number of type-3 and type-2 hexes, making a relative "backwater" that is, really, still quite well infrastructured.

In my game world, it's one of the older, more settled Polish heartlands: noble estates, royal towns, church lands, small market towns, mills, river crossings, parish networks and manor farms, real old timey 14th century feudalism stuff, running down as the rest of the world becomes more complicated. Greater Poland was flooded with refugees from the Thirty Years War in Silesia to the south; and much of this became cheap labour that made the ordinary, average individual's life less pleasant. Apart from that, the political structure here is the same that has been grinding on for century after century, with the agrarian society under so much pressure that eventually, within the next half century, Poland will become the "sick man of Europe" so that Russia, Austria and Prussia will begin dividing it up without Poland having the wherewithal to have a say about it.

Some of these refugees were Jews, but the larger migration into this part of the world took place in the 15th and 16th centuries, not the present. Most of the refugees post-war were Silesian Germans and Czechs.

We continue on east.