Mstów [mstuf] (Yiddish: Amstov – אמסטאוו) is a village in Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

Mstów lies on the Warta river, in western part of historic province of Lesser Poland.

The very fact that a meeting like this was organized in Mstów means that it had already been an important location, and it had the monastery complex ready to host the bishops.

In the Middle Ages Mstów was located along an important merchant route running from Kraków to Greater Poland.

After Mstów had received its town charter, a market square was designed, with rectangular streets, whose shape has not been changed.

The town had its local government, and despite widespread destruction following the raid of King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1292), it quickly recovered, with several artisan guilds being active here.

In the 17th century the merchant route lost its importance, which resulted in Mstów's decline to the benefit of nearby Częstochowa.

Mstów was destroyed in 1709 by Russian troops during the Great Northern War, and in the third partition of Poland, the town was split in half, along the Warta river.

After another significant fire in 1879, Mstów was almost deserted; most of its former inhabitants moved to the quickly developing industrial center of Częstochowa.