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First session of the Polish Provincial Sejm in Poznań (1918) 1918 3 December: The first session of the Polish Provincial Sejm (parliament) of the former Prussian Partition of Poland in Poznań. 27 December: Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19) against German rule begins. 28 December: City liberated by Polish insurgents. [24] 1919
This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland .
During the free election period in Poland, Poznań, as one of the most influential cities of the state, enjoyed voting rights. Attempts were made to introduce Protestantism to the city in the second half of the 16th century, but this involved mainly the nobility, the bulk of the population remaining Roman Catholic. The largest Protestant ...
In the early 19th century, Poland observed UTC+01:24 as it was the time corresponding to the offset of their local mean time at the Warsaw meridian, which was also known as Warsaw mean time. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Warsaw switched to CET on 5 August 1915, [ 4 ] and the rest of Poland officially adopted CET on 31 May 1922.
Poznań (Polish: [ˈpɔznaj̃] or ⓘ) [a] is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. [7] The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (Jarmark Świętojański), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect.
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1606 – Poland first described as "Paradisus Iudaeorum". 1623 – The first time a separate Jewish Diet (Va'ad) for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is convened. 1632 – King Władysław IV Vasa forbids Anti-Semitic books and printings. 1633 – Jews of Poznań are granted a privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city quarter.
The Poznań Voivodeship (Polish: województwo poznańskie) as redrawn in 1975 was again superseded by the Greater Poland Voivodeship, which was formed by the merger of five former Voivodeships. Capital city: Poznań. Major cities and towns (with populations in 1995): Poznań (581,800); Gniezno (71,000); Śrem (29,800); Września (28,600 ...