WebSBB (first known as Silesian Blues Band, later as Szukaj, Burz, Buduj – Polish for "Search, Break up, Build") is a Polish progressive rock band formed in 1971 in Siemianowice, Upper Silesia.It consisted of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Józef Skrzek, guitarist Apostolis Anthimos, the drummer Jerzy Piotrowski and sound engineer Grzegorz Maniecki.

WebThe Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger was used by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War in a variety of roles. Like the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Fw 190 was employed as a "workhorse", and proved suitable for a wide variety of roles, including air superiority fighter, strike fighter, ground-attack aircraft, escort fighter, and operated with less success as a …

WebEast Upper Silesia, to Poland (area 3,214 km 2 or 1,241 sq mi out of 10,950 km 2 or 4,230 sq mi - around 30% with 965,000 inhabitants ), after Upper Silesia plebiscite in which 60% had voted in favor of remaining German and 40% wanted whole Upper Silesia to become Polish. The vote was designed to provide guidance on how to divide the area, and ...

WebThe national flag of Poland (Polish: flaga Polski) consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red.The two colours are defined in the Polish constitution as the national colours.A variant of the flag with the national coat of arms in the middle of the white fess is legally reserved for official use abroad and at sea.

WebThe French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the start of the war, the French colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers, compared with 2 million in the British …

WebDuke of Upper and Lower Silesia. Silesia was originally owned by the Kingdom of Poland, but it was gradually broken up and acquired by Bohemia as a crown land. After losing most of historic Silesia to Prussia in the Silesian Wars, the Habsburgs consolidated what remained into Upper and Lower Silesia. Duke of Modena

WebOn 3 April 1941 it was expanded to all western Polish areas (Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, East Upper Silesia, and the Zichenau Region. East Upper Silesia. The nationality policy in East Upper Silesia was different from the one applied in other Polish areas included in the Reich. The motivation for the difference was the different local ...

WebThe Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially annexed territory of Nazi Germany established on 16 March 1939 following the German occupation of the Czech lands.The protectorate's population was mostly ethnic Czech.. After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Germany had annexed the German-majority Sudetenland from …

WebAs a technical term, the "high" in High German is a geographical reference to the group of dialects that forms "High German" (i.e. "Highland" German), out of which developed Standard German, Yiddish and Luxembourgish.It refers to the Central Uplands (Mittelgebirge) and Alpine areas of central and southern Germany; it also includes …

WebPlebiscyt na Górnym Śląsku (niem. Volksabstimmung in Oberschlesien) – jeden z dwóch plebiscytów dotyczących etnicznego pogranicza polsko-niemieckiego, które wyznaczono w 1919 r. w wersalskim traktacie pokojowym, kończącym I wojnę światową.Plebiscyt został przeprowadzony 20 marca 1921r. i poprzedzony był dwoma powstaniami części ludności …

WebSilesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province (Polish: województwo śląskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ ˈɕlɔ̃skʲɛ]) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital.. Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic Silesia region lies outside the present …

WebThe Czech Republic's official formal and short names at the United Nations are Česká republika and Česko in Czech, and the Czech Republic and Czechia in English. All these names derive from the name of the Czechs, the West Slavic ethnolinguistic group native to the Czech lands. Czechia (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k i ə /), the official English short name specified by the …

WebPolish railways administration finally took over the railways in Upper Silesia in 1922. That same year, a decision was made to divide railways in Poland into nine administrative districts. An economic crisis in the 1930s forced the state to cut back its budget for railway investment. Profit decreased by 50% compared to 1929.

WebThe Limes Germanicus (Latin for Germanic frontier) is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from the years 83 to about 260 AD. The Limes used either a natural boundary such …