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All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
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Cities, towns, villages, neighborhoods and regions. Poland Polen; Polish name German name Notes Anielska Górka Engelsberg: Part of Olsztyn. Augustówka
Respective data for Eastern Galicia show the following number: Ukrainians 60.5%, Poles 25.0%, Jews 13.7%, Germans 0.3%, and others 0.5%. Before World War II, many Galician towns, even in the predominantly ethnic Ukrainian east, had substantial Polish, Jewish and German populations.
The following is a list of towns of Poland which lost their town status. 21st century 20th century : 1985 – 1977 – 1975 – 1973 – 1972 – 1959 – 1957 – 1956 – 1954 – 1950 – 1948 – 1946 – 1945 – 1939 – 1934 – 1932 – 1928 – 1921 – 1919 – 1915 – 1914
City/Town District (Kreis) Pop. in 1939 Current Name Current Administrative Unit Allenburg: Landkreis Wehlau: 2 694: Druzhba: Kaliningrad Oblast Allenstein: Landkreis Allenstein: 50 396: Olsztyn: Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Angerburg: Landkreis Angerburg: 10 922: Węgorzewo : Warmia-Masuria Arys: Landkreis Johannisburg: 3 553: Orzysz: Warmia ...
The Polish village of Miejsce Odrzańskie has a very strange claim to fame: For nearly 10 years, every single child born in the town has been a girl. ... And we will plant an oak [tree] and name ...
Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲtɕim] ⓘ; German: Auschwitz [ˈaʊʃvɪts] ⓘ; Yiddish: אָשפּיצין, romanized: Oshpitzin; Silesian: Ôśwjyńćim) is a town in the Lesser Poland (Polish: Małopolska) province of southern Poland, situated 33 kilometres (21 mi) southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (Wisła) and Soła rivers. [2]