Pyrzyce (German: Pyritz), is a town in Pomerania, north-western Poland, with some 11,000 inhabitants (1980)
Capital of the Pyrzyce County in West Pomeranian Voivodship(since 1999), previously in Szczecin Voivodship (1975-1998).
An anonymous medieval document of ca. 850, called Bavarian Geographer mentions the tribe of Pyritzans who have 70 strongholds (Prissani civitates LXX. )History