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PKM Warsaw wins its first Team Speedway Polish Championship. Spójnia Warsaw wins its first Polish women's basketball championship. Warsaw in 1950. 1949 - Six-Year Plan for the Reconstruction of Warsaw created. [39] 1950 - Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature established. 1951 - Białołęka, Okęcie, Wilanów, and Włochy become part of city ...
1659 image of the Warsaw Siren. The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. In that time, the city evolved from a cluster of villages to the capital of a major European power, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth—and, under the patronage of its kings, a center of enlightenment and otherwise unknown tolerance.
Polish Independence Day, Warsaw is free from German troops of the Ober Ost: December 27: Greater Poland Uprising begins, ends in 1919 1919 January 23–30: Polish–Czechoslovak War erupts following border disagreements: January 26: Legislative election to the Sejm: February 14: Polish–Soviet War begins February 16: Greater Poland Uprising ...
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Saxon Axis marked on an 1831 map of Warsaw. The Saxon Axis (Polish: Oś Saska) is a feature of the historical city centre of Warsaw.It is a line running from the Vistula through the Presidential Palace, the Krakowskie Przedmieście, Saxon Square, Saxon Palace, Saxon Garden, Lubomirski Palace to Plac Żelaznej Bramy.
The destruction of Warsaw was practically unparalleled in the Second World War, with it being noted that "Perhaps no city suffered more than Warsaw during World War II", with historian Alexandra Richie stating that "The destruction of Warsaw was unique even in the terrible history of the Second World War". [1]
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[14] [15] It is the base for Frontex, the European Union agency for external border security, and ODIHR, one of the principal institutions of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Warsaw has one of Europe's highest concentrations of skyscrapers, and the Varso Place is the tallest building in the European Union.