Piastów is a town in central Poland in the Masovian Voivodeship, within the Warsaw metropolitan area, with 23,331 inhabitants (2006 est). With 3963 persons/km², it is the second most densely populated township in Poland (after Świętochłowice).
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History
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 occupied by Germany until January 1945. In early 1940, 100 expelled Poles from Poznań were deported to Piastów. 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 and conducted secret sanitary and rescue training. During the Warsaw Uprising, in August 1944, Poles expelled by the Germans from Wola came to Piastów.