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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.
Warsaw, [a] officially the Capital City of Warsaw, [8] [b] is the capital and largest city of Poland.The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. [2]
Sigismund's Column (Polish: Kolumna Zygmunta), originally erected in 1644, is located at Castle Square, Warsaw, Poland and is one of Warsaw's most famous landmarks as well as the first secular monument in the form of a column in modern history. [2]
Category: History of Warsaw by period. 2 languages. ... Warsaw in World War II (5 C, 36 P) This page was last edited on 7 November 2024, at 12:12 (UTC). ...
In 1980, Warsaw's Old Town was placed on the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites as "an outstanding example of a near-total reconstruction of a span of history covering the 13th to the 20th century. [12] The site is also one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii), as designated 16 September 1994.
Warsaw Uprising; Part of Operation Tempest of the Polish Resistance and the Eastern Front of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Civilians construct an anti-tank ditch in Wola district; German anti-tank gun in Theatre Square; Home Army soldier defending a barricade; Ruins of Bielańska Street; Insurgents leave the city ruins after surrendering to German forces; Allied transport planes ...
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