Lodz is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it has a population of 698,688. It is the capital of Lodz Voivodeship, and is approximately 135 kilometres south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat. It alludes to the city's name which translates literally as "boat." Lodz was once a small settlement that first appeared in written records in around 1332. In the early 15th-century it was granted city rights, but remained a rather small and insubstantial town. It was the property of Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the end of the 18th century, when Lodz was annexed by Prussia as a result of the second partition of Poland.