WebLeszno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grabów, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.. History. In the late 19th century, the village had a population of 149. During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were …

WebThe former eastern territories of Germany (German: Ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer in present-day Germany to those territories east of the current eastern border of Germany i.e. Oder–Neisse line which historically had been considered German and which were annexed by Poland and Soviet Union after World War II, these territories were also …

WebVirgin; Born 25 August 1905Głogowiec, Łęczyca County, Congress Poland, Russian Empire: Died: 5 October 1938 (aged 33) Kraków, Second Polish Republic: Venerated in: Catholic Church: Beatified: 18 April 1993, St. Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 30 April 2000, St. Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II …

WebChoszczno [ˈxɔʂt͡ʂnɔ] (German: Arnswalde) is a town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.As of December 2021, the town has a population of 14,831. The town is in a marshy district between the river Stobnica and Klukom lake, 32 kilometres (20 mi) southeast of Stargard and on the main railway line between Szczecin and Poznań.Besides the Gothic …

WebŁódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting, as it depicts a boat (łódź in Polish), which alludes to the city's name.As of 2022, Łódź has a population of …

WebKutno is a city located in central Poland with 42,704 inhabitants (2021) and an area of 33.6 km 2 (13.0 sq mi). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship since 1999, previously it was part of Płock Voivodeship (1975–1998) and it is now the capital of Kutno County.. During the invasion of Poland in 1939, Polish armies under General Tadeusz Kutrzeba conducted an …

WebHistory. The surname is derived from the root word "brzoza" ("brzez-" in some compound words), meaning "birch".The adjective suffix "ski" means "being like" or "belonging to", so Brzeziński refers to a person from one of the localities named for a concentration of birch trees, such as Brzezina, (a small village in Western Pomerania).In Polish, Brzeziński has …

WebKołobrzeg ([kɔˈwɔbʐɛk] Ko-wo-bzhek; Kashubian: Kòlbrzég; German: Kolberg, [ˈkɔlbɛʁk] ()), is a port city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with about 47,000 inhabitants (as of 2014).Kołobrzeg is located on the Parsęta River on the south coast of the Baltic Sea (in the middle of the section divided by the Oder and Vistula Rivers).

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WebThis is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.