Lodz
a town of Poland, in the government of Piot kow, 75 miles S. W. of Warsaw. Second city of Poland in size and is center of cotton and woolen manufacture. Its industrial development has been rapid, largely owing to its population of Germans and Jews. During the German campaign in Poland in 1914 there were heavy combats round the city and the Germans entered it on October 8. After retreating they advanced again and Lodz was again evacuated by the Russians on December 6, its position at the extremity of a salient in the Russian line having made further sacrifices for its defense strategically unsound. It remained in German hands to the end of the war. Pop. 1912, 450,004.