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Warsaw is the media centre of Poland, and the location of the main headquarters of TVP and other numerous local and national TV and radio stations, such as Polskie Radio (Polish Radio), TVN, Polsat, TV4, TV Puls, Canal+ Poland, Cyfra+ and MTV Poland. [190] Warsaw also has a sizable movie and television industry.
The 1st French Army, with its headquarters at Strasbourg, on the Franco-German border, was the main field headquarters controlling operations in support of NATO in West Germany, as well as defending France. Although France was not officially part of NATO's command structure, there was an understanding, formalised by regular joint exercises in ...
The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie; French: Duché de Varsovie; German: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw [1] and Napoleonic Poland, [2] was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars.
In November 1918, the revolution broke out in Germany. On 8 November, German authorities left Warsaw. On 10 November Józef Piłsudski came to the Warsaw-Vienna Station. On 11 November the Regency Council gave him all military authority—and on 14 November, all civil authority. For this reason, 11 November 1918 is celebrated as the beginning ...
The Warsaw Pact (WP), [d] formally the ... Memories of the Nazi occupation were still strong, and the rearmament of Germany was feared by France too. [7] [41] On 30 ...
Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815) Kingdom of Spain (1808–1813) Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810) Swiss Confederation (1803–1814) Kingdom of Sweden (1810–1812) Principality of Andorra (1806–1814, 1815) Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission (1812-1813) Duchy of Courland, Semigallia and Pilten (1812) The First French Empire, in 1812
After its demise, the only attempt at political coordination in Germany until the creation on 8 June 1815 of the German Confederation was a body called the Central Administration Council (German: Zentralverwaltungsrat); its president was Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein (1757–1831). It was dissolved on 20 June 1815.
(For example, Norman Davies in God's Playground refers to the 1807 creation of the Duchy of Warsaw as the fourth partition, the 1815 Treaty of Vienna as the fifth, the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk as the sixth, and the 1939 division of Poland between Nazi Germany and the USSR as the seventh.) [28] However, in recent times, the 1815 division of ...