Questions tagged [poland]
Poland was an important Eastern-European kingdom between the 11th and 18th centuries. For the next 123 years, it was partitioned between other countries. In 1918 it became a democratic republic, which after World War II joined Warsaw Pact. In 2004, Poland joined the European Union. Check full tag wiki page to see examples of related topics.
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What was Poland's posture during the Seven Years' War?
Poland seems like the "invisible" party during the Seven Years' War Ostensibly, it was fought between France, Austria, and Russia on one side, and Prussia, plus Great Britain-Hannover on the other.
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Why would this word have been an unsuitable name in Communist Poland? Is it because it's a racial slur?
In Marek Hłasko's The Graveyard (set in communist-occupied Poland) there is a scene where, in a political party meeting one of the party members (Nowak) is forced to change the name of his dog. This ...
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Where in Poland and when in 1986 did stuntman Ian B. Jamieson perform?
I've these 3 old pictures of mine:
So my question is:
Where and when stuntman did Ian Bruce Jamieson perform in Poland?
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How could Stutthof's inmates reach Palmnicken?
There's a Palmnicken Massacre section in Polish article about Stutthof concentration camp (not available in English version). It says (translation mine):
The female prisoners of the sub-camps were ...
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What can I learn from this man's uniform?
This is my Polish Great Grandfather - I'm trying to create his story by looking at his uniform. Imperial Russian Uniform? Lithuanian cross? Help!
Photo taken in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Of which countries was Ludwig von Mises a citizen?
This is a question regarding the economist and political thinker Ludwig von Mises.
A short biography: Mises was born in 1881 in Lviv, then part of Austria–Hungary. He studied and worked in Vienna ...
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Did the Ottomans conquer Poland-Lithuania?
Türk Tarihi | History of Turks claims that the Ottomans took Poland-Lithuania as a vassal in the late 1570s. Where did they get this from? I searched everywhere but I couldn't find anything.
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Do we know the names of the German soldiers entombed at Babie Doły?
The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper ran the following story on the 18th of June 1951
Warsaw, Poland - (U.P.) - A 32 year-old German Soldier who said he had
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How significant was the literary loss due to WWII?
From the Wikipedia list of libraries damaged during World War II, I learnt that millions of books stored in libraries were lost from bombings and intentional destruction by the Nazis, especially in ...
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When did Wiktoria Narutowicz die?
Is it possible to find when Wiktoria ze Szczepkowskich, mother of Gabriel Narutowicz (his Wiki-page) died?
I found rodovid.org but there is no date of death.
I also checked in Gabriel Narutowicz ...
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Help with identifying my great-grandfather's pre-WWI Cossack uniform
My great-grandfahter was a Cossack from "Then Russia" "Now Belarus" where the Belarus, Ukraine and Poland borders met, but I don't now which "type" like Don or Kuban etc. He fled from the place he ...
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Who got a pardon from Gabriel Narutowicz?
In December 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz was president of Poland and were killed 16th of December. Just after 5 days of being president of country he got assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski.
I found that ...
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Did Mussolini know that Hitler was going to attack Poland?
Did Hitler inform Mussolini of his decision to attack Poland in advance? Was Mussolini in favour?
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What was the conspiratorial name of Roman Stanislaw Dmowski?
What name did Roman Stanislaw Dmowski before he returned to Warsaw in 1905?
in Autumn 1905 after the proclamation of the constitution in Russia, he [returned] to Warsaw, where he could live under his ...
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Have Germany and Poland ever signed a peace treaty after WWII?
I met a shocking (for me) information, that Germany and Poland have not signed a peace treaty after the World War II.
Because I could not believe this, I performed some research.
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Why did peasant serfdom last longer in Eastern Europe than in Western?
My concern is for the early-modern period, roughly 16th to 19th centuries. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia seem to provide the best known examples of long-lasting serfdom.
The article on ...
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When and why did the given name Dariusz get popular in Poland?
I recently realized that Dariusz is a) a reasonably popular given name in Poland, and b) sounds a lot like the modern Iranian name Daryush, which is derived from the name of Darius, one of the most ...
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Did the German authorities respell Polish personal names to be more German during the time of the German Empire?
How were Polish names handled by Prussian and German authorities during the times of the German empire? It is well known there was intense Germanisation throughout the area, for example all location ...
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Why did China decide to support Poland in 1956, but not Hungary?
In 1956, the fate of the Eastern Block was pretty uncertain: The Khrushchev Thaw was causing the satellite countries to rethink their place in the world, as de-Stalinization was bringing the promise ...
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Was there any significant cultural shift in Russian Empire caused by the partition of Poland?
Wikipedia article on Tsardom of Russia claims that acquisition of Wild Fields and Kiev Academy caused an influx of intellectuals in Russia, which in turn kick-started later reforms by Peter The Great ...
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What was the border regime between Poland and Czechoslovakia like during the 1970s and 1980s?
Poland and Czechoslovakia shared a rather long border after WW2. This border included several touristically relevant places, e.g. Snežka in the Krkonoše mountains and several peaks in the High Tatras.
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What concessions did Hitler demand from the Poles before 1939?
On Wikipedia, it is stated that:
Earlier, Hitler's foreign policy worked to weaken ties between Poland
and France, and attempted to manoeuvre Poland into the Anti-Comintern
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Which place in Europe and/or Russia had its catenary lines removed/replaced several times for political reasons?
I could swear I remember reading about a city or rail line -- maybe in Germany? Maybe in Poland? -- that had the overhead electrical wires for trains removed, exported to another city or country, and ...
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Where can I find information on a Polish castle dismantled by Sweden?
I recently visited a castle in Krakow, Poland, where I learned that a Polish castle was dismantled by a Swedish king and loaded onto boats to be rebuilt in Sweden. Unfortunately, the castle sank to ...
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What does this acronym and the symbol in the middle represent?
One of my Polish friends just bought a ruined old brick house in a village in Poland, which was supposedly reigned by Germany during the second world war (I didn't ask the name nor the location of the ...
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Did Poland help Germany take Czechoslavakia before Germany invaded Poland?
In March of 1939, "with Germany's permission" (WW2 for dummies), Poland invaded Czechoslovakia while Germany was annexing the Sudetenland per the Munich agreement. Only 6 months later, in September, ...
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How would Eastern European emigres have traveled across Eastern Europe to Warsaw in the early 20thC?
I was looking back at my grandmother's voyage to America, she made the trip from Zbaraz in the Ukraine through Warsaw and then on to Gdanks and through steerage class to the New York. I know she took ...
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Can anyone identify these (possibly WW1 Polish) uniforms?
The only hint I have is that the gentlemen in the picture were Polish and it was reputed to have been taken in 1917. So far I suspect that they may be cavalry?
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Did Augustus the Strong sleep with his own daughter?
I'm working my way through Robert Massie's voluminous biography of Peter the Great at the moment. It's truly a pleasure to read; one really does have the sensation of stepping into Peter's world. ...
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How did Poland avoid partition in the 17th century, but not the 18th century?
During the "Deluge" of 1648-1667, Poland was invaded and largely overrun by Sweden and Russia, the latter supporting dissident Ukrainian rebels. (See Deluge on Wikipedia.)
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Did more Jews live in Poland than any other country, prior to the Holocaust, because of how Polish laws and people regarded Jews?
Poland in 1900 and just before the Sho'ah ranks 1st in a list of nations by Jewish percentage of the population. [1]
Now of course in such a ranking that country is Israel.
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When Louis I of Hungary died in 1382, why did Polish lords choose Jadwiga instead of Mary as the monarch?
I am looking at a particular moment in Polish history when Louis I of Hungary died in 1382. Although the Hungarian throne was inherited by his daughter Mary, local power brokers back in Poland did not ...
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Why was Polish king Sigismund II Augustus' coronation held when his father Sigismund I was still alive?
Sigismund II Augustus was born in 1520 and crowned at age 10 in 1530, while his father Sigismund I the Old was still alive.
Could someone explain me the reason for this coronation?
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Is history of Polish Catholicism exceptional? [closed]
Zygmunt Zieliński in his study called "The myth of a Catholic Pole" in the book Polish political myths of the 19th and 20th centuries observes:
(…) the criterion for distinguishing the ...
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What is the name for the very first Polish state likely established around 966 by Mieszko I through baptism of Poland?
In the year of likely around 966, Mieszko I united all of the tribes occupying a part of today's western Poland through Christianization of it, therefore making Poland an official sovereign state (at ...
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What was the treatment of Polish POW in British or Soviet uniform in WW2?
Suppose that Polish soldier, member of Polish Armed Forces in the West, becomes a German POW. How good or bad would have be treated ? Like UK/US POW (relatively mildly) or like Polish POWs from 1939 (...
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Why was Austria given the best chunk in the First Partition of Poland, even while protesting it?
In the First Partition of Poland, Austria was given 2.7 million people, versus 1.3 million for Russia, and almost 1 million for Prussia. Austria got more than twice as much land as Prussia, and only ...
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Was Christopher Columbus Polish?
A Polish friend of mine stated that Columbus was of Polish heritage. Claims are made that he was a Polish immigrant to Italy, and that he came from a disgraced noble family in Poland.
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Identifying this uniform, possibly German or Polish
This photo was in my great-aunt's album. She only identified it as "he came from Germany", but the picture was taken in Bunzlau, which I believe to be in Poland. I am guessing it is from ...
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Identify male uniform 1860-80 north Central Europe single breast trouser boot round cap
This photo is believed to be from 1860-1880 Poland/Lithuania, as the house behind them looks like a Polish thatch house. The man in question is in the center back of the photo.
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What was the reason that Poland wanted a part of Germany north of Stettin/Szczecin and west of the Oder?
If you look at the map you see the so-called Stettiner Zipfel (Szczecin lobe) in the west of the Oder which includes Stettin/Szczecin.
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Why was Poland subject to much harsher Russification than Finland was?
A Wikipedia page describes Russification of Poland:
Russification in Congress Poland intensified after the November Uprising of 1831, and in particular after the January Uprising of 1863. In 1864 the ...
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Was there Nazi Collaboration at an Institutional level in Poland?
Following recent legal regulations in Poland prohibiting any association of Polish culpability with the Holocaust and concentration camps, the question that arises is whether there was any Polish ...
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In which document was the exact course of the northern part of the German-Polish border decided?
While researching the answer to "How was Germany's border decided?", I didn't manage to find any documents which would precisely describe the borders between Germany and Poland between the points 53° ...
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Why has Witold Pilecki not been included in the Righteous Among the Nations? [closed]
Witold Pilecki was a Polish resistance fighter who volunteered to enter the Auschwitz I concentration camp. From there, he organised a resistance movement and gathered intelligence on the atrocities ...
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How and why did Charles XII get to Poltava?
The decisive battle of the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia was the battle of Poltava. That's located deep in the Ukraine, southeast of Kiev, between Cherkassy and Kharkov.
That seems ...
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Why did Britain and France not declare war against the Soviet Union when it invaded Poland in WW2?
At the beginning of WW2, although they were slow in actually attacking Germany, Britain and France did declare war against it after Germany invaded Poland. The reason for this was the treaty where ...
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What are the themes of post-WW2 Polish immigration to the United States? [closed]
What are the themes of post-WW2 Polish immigration to the United States? What was life like for this immigrant community?
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What was the average price of Škoda Favorit in Poland around 1991?
I am looking for the average price of a Škoda Favorit in Poland around 1991 (1992 would be appreciated as well)
I cannot find this information online anywhere.
I have found price of this car and ...
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Was Nicholas II Romanov the last king of Poland?
Nicholas II Romanov, the last Emperor of All-Russia, used also (among many others) titles: Grand Prince of Lithuania, and King of Poland.
The Wikipedia states he was "a titular" King of Poland. In ...
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