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Łódź [a] is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. [8] As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, [1] making it the country's fourth largest city.
In western and southern Poland, final obstruents are voiced (voicing pronunciation) if the following word starts with a sonorant (here, for example, the /t/ in brat ojca 'father's brother' would be pronounced as [d]). On the other hand, they are voiceless (devoicing pronunciation) in eastern and northern Poland (/t/ is pronounced [t]).
The Polish language of the inhabitants of the voivodeship is considered the closest to the Polish literary language, as the region did not develop its own dialect, but was a place of blending of dialects from the neighboring larger regions of Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, Mazovia and Silesia.
Dziennik Łódzki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʑɛn.ɲik ˈwut͡s.ki], Łódź Diary in English) is a newspaper from the Łódź Voivodeship and one of the oldest in Poland. It has been published six times a week since 1884. In 2000, it was merged with the daily "Wiadomości Dnia". Its offices are in Łódź.
In terms of the most important, dialect groups are usually divided based on the presence of masuration (present in Masovian and Lesser Polish dialects) and voicing of word-final consonants before vowels and liquids in the next word or sometimes the personal verb clitics -m, -ś, -śmy, -ście as in byliśmy (e.g. jak jestem may be realized as ...
RTS Widzew Łódź (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɛr ˈtɛ ˈɛs ˈvʲidzɛf ˈwut͡ɕ]) is a Polish football club based in Łódź.The club was founded in 1910. Its official colours are red and white, hence their nicknames Czerwona Armia (Red Army) and Czerwono-biało-czerwoni (Red-white-reds).
Łódź Fabryczna (Polish pronunciation: [faˈbrɨt͡ʂna]) is the largest and most modern railway station in the city of Łódź, Poland. It was originally constructed at the initiative of industrialist Karl Wilhelm Scheibler in 1865. In the Polish classification of stations it is placed in the Premium category.
The voivode Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić on horseback. Voivode (/ ˈ v ɔɪ v oʊ d / VOY-vohd), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode (/ ˈ v aɪ v oʊ d, ˈ v eɪ-/ V(A)Y-vohd), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Middle Ages.