Schlawe

Sławno
St Mary's Church
Coat of arms
Sławno
Coordinates: 54°22′N 16°41′E / 54.367°N 16.683°E / 54.367; 16.683
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	West Pomeranian
County	Sławno County
Gmina	Sławno (urban gmina)
Government
• Mayor	Krzysztof Frankenstein
Area
• Total	15.78 km2 (6.09 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	13,314
• Density	840/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	76–100
Car plates	ZSL
Website	http://www.slawno.pl

Sławno [ˈswavnɔ] (Kashubian/Pomeranian: Słôwno, German: Schlawe), is a town on the Wieprza river in Middle Pomerania region, north-western Poland, with 13,322 inhabitants (2006). It is the administrative seat of Gmina Sławno, though not part of it. The town is also the capital of Sławno County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Słupsk Voivodeship (1975–1998).

Sławno is a railway junction on the major Gdańsk - Szczecin line, with access to secondary importance connections to Darłowo and Korzybie. It is also a stop on the European route E28 running parallel to the south coast of the Baltic Sea between the cities of Koszalin and Słupsk.

Since the mid-12th century the Lands of Schlawe and Stolp (Słupsk) were under the rule of Duke Ratibor I of Pomerania and his descendants, a cadet branch of the Griffin dynasty. When the line became extinct about 1227, their estates were the matter of an inheritance conflict between the Griffin Duke Barnim I the Good and Swantopolk II from the Samborid dynasty, who ruled over the adjacent territories of Pomerelia in the east.