NOWA HUTA

industrial section of Krakw (Cracow) city, southern Poland, on the Vistula River. The original medieval village settlements of Mogila and Pleszw grew up around a 13th-century Cistercian monastery. Population grew rapidly after 1949, attracted by the large modern Lenin iron and steel complex developed on the site. Nowa Huta, originally a separate city located just east of Krakw, was incorporated (1951) into Krakw. Pop. (1990 est.) 224,100.