Kraków,also seen spelled Cracow or absent Polish diacritics as Krakow,is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship,the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic,economic,cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities,its Old Town with Wawel Royal Castle was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978,one of the world's first sites granted the status.
Lesser Poland,often known by its Polish name Małopolska,is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Kraków. Throughout centuries,Lesser Poland developed a separate culture featuring diverse architecture,folk costumes,dances,cuisine,traditions and a rare Lesser Polish dialect. The region is rich in historical landmarks,monuments,castles,natural scenery and UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense,it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667,comprising the Polish theatres of the Russo-Polish and Second Northern Wars. In a stricter sense,the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War (1655–1660) only;in Poland and Lithuania this period is called the Swedish Deluge,or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge due to the simultaneous Russo-Polish War. The term "deluge" was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel The Deluge (1886).
Augustów is a town in north-eastern Poland. It lies on the Netta River and the Augustów Canal. It is the seat of Augustów County and of Gmina Augustów in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Augustów has an area of 80.90 square kilometres,and as of June 2022 it has a population of 29,305.
The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in Eastern Europe that flows through Belarus (border),Poland,and Ukraine,with a total length of 774 kilometres (481 mi). A tributary of the Narew,the Bug forms part of the border between Belarus and Poland for 178 kilometres (111 mi) and part of the border between Ukraine and Poland for 185 kilometres (115 mi).
The Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 was part of the campaign by Soviet Russia into areas abandoned by the Ober Ost garrisons that were being withdrawn to Germany following that country's defeat in World War I. The initially successful offensive against the Republic of Estonia ignited the Estonian War of Independence which ended with the Soviet recognition of Estonia. Similarly,the campaigns against the Republic of Latvia and Republic of Lithuania ultimately failed,resulting in the Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty and Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty respectively. In Belarus,the Belarusian People's Republic was conquered and the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia proclaimed.
Zawichost is a small town in Sandomierz County,Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship,Poland. It is located by the Vistula River in Lesser Poland,near Sandomierz. It is first mentioned in historical documents from around 1148. In 1205 the Battle of Zawichost was fought nearby. In 1241,1259 and 1287 the town was ravaged by Mongol raids. Granted town rights before 1255,in the late Middle Ages it was one of the most important urban centers of Lesser Poland.
Podgórze is a district of Kraków,Poland,situated on the right (southern) bank of the Vistula River,at the foot of Lasota Hill. The district was subdivided in 1990 into six new districts,see present-day districts of Kraków for more details. The name Podgórze roughly translates as the base of a hill. Initially a small settlement,in the years following the First Partition of Poland the town's development was promoted by the Austria-Hungary Emperor Joseph II who in 1784 granted it the city status,as the Royal Free City of Podgórze. In the following years it was a self-governing administrative unit. After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795 and the takeover of the entire city by the Empire,Podgórze lost its political role of an independent suburb across the river from the Old Town.
The Jaworzno concentration camp was a concentration camp in WW2 German-occupied Poland and later in Communist Poland. It was first established by the Nazis in 1943 during the Second World War and was later used from 1945 to 1956 by the Soviet NKVD and then by the Ministry of Public Security and other agencies of the Polish communist regime. Today the site is an apartment complex and also houses a memorial to the camp's victims.
White Croatia is the region from which part of the White Croats emigrated to the Western Balkans and lived between 7-10th century. Some historians believe that,after the migration of the Croats in the 6th-7th century,their former homeland gradually lost its primacy and was influenced by other Slavic peoples,such as Ukrainians,Poles and Czechs-Slovaks. Others say there was never a distinct polity known as Great or White Croatia. According to the medieval Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja,another area referred to as White Croatia was located south of Posavina along with Red Croatia in Dalmatia.
Nikola Mitrović is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Hungarian club BVSC-Zugló.
Bojana Radulović,is a retired Serbian-Hungarian handball player who currently leads the handball academy of Dunaújváros.
Szczucin is a town in Dąbrowa County,Lesser Poland Voivodeship,in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Szczucin. It lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) north-east of Dąbrowa Tarnowska,30 km (19 mi) north of Tarnów and 85 km (53 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków. The town has a population of 4,069. It is located on the Vistula river.
The Vistula is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe,at 1,047 kilometres in length. Its drainage basin,extending into three other countries apart from Poland,covers 193,960 km2 (74,890 sq mi),of which 168,868 km2 (65,200 sq mi) is in Poland.
The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland,the Czech Republic and Germany,taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 billion. The flooding began in the Czech Republic,then spread to Poland and Germany. In Poland,where it was one of the most disastrous floods in the country's history,it was named the Millennium Flood. The term was also used in Germany (Jahrtausendflut). The event has also been referred to as the Great Flood of 1997.
The global weather activity of 2010 includes major meteorological events in the Earth's atmosphere during the year,including winter storms,hailstorms,out of season monsoon rain storms,extratropical cyclones,gales,microbursts,flooding,rainstorms,tropical cyclones,and other severe weather events.
Poland is a country that extends across the North European Plain from the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south to the sandy beaches of the Baltic Sea in the north. Poland is the fifth-most populous country of the European Union and the ninth-largest country in Europe by area. The territory of Poland covers approximately 312,696 km2 (120,733 sq mi),of which 98.52% is land and 1.48% is water. The Polish coastline was estimated at 770 km (478 mi) in length. Poland's highest point is Rysy,at 2,500 m (8,202 ft).
Włocławek Reservoir is a water body in the Middle Vistula flow that appeared in 1970 after building of the dam in Włocławek. The length of the reservoir is 58 km from Włocławek to Płock,average width is 1.2 km. It is the biggest reservoir in Poland.
Events during the year 2010 in Poland.
The second Mongol invasion of Poland was carried out by General Boroldai (Burundai) of the Golden Horde in 1259–1260. During this invasion the cities of Sandomierz,Kraków,Lublin,Zawichost,and Bytom were sacked by the Mongols for the second time.
