Kobylin

Kobylin () is a town in Krotoszyn County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,130 inhabitants (2010).

==History== thumb|left|Document of granting town rights, ca. 1303 In the Early Middle Ages it was a market settlement, which became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century, as part of the Greater Poland region. It was mentioned in documents from 1289. Kobylin was granted town rights before 1303. Initially, it was called Wenecja. It was a private town administratively located in the Pyzdry County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1456 a school was established at the Bernardine monastery. Its graduates usually enrolled to the University of Kraków, Poland's oldest and leading university. Among them were professors of the University of Kraków: Maciej of Kobylin, who was a philosopher and one of the teachers of Nicolaus Copernicus, Piotr of Kobylin, author of the first known Polish textbook, and , translator of the first anatomical book published in the Polish language. Famous fairs were held in Kobylin during the reign of King Sigismund II Augustus. During the Thirty Years' War, Protestant refugees from Silesia settled in the town. One of the greatest Polish Baroque poets Samuel Twardowski was buried in the Bernardine church. The town was plundered by the Swedes during the Deluge and Great Northern War, and by the Russians during the Seven Years' War. thumb|left|Baroque in Poland|Baroque Franciscan monastery