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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.
This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Poland
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Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of ...
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Superficially, the Duchy of Warsaw was just one of the various states set up during Napoleon's dominance over Eastern and Central Europe, lasting only a few years and passing with his fall. However, its establishment a little over a decade after the Second and Third Partitions, that had appeared to wipe Poland off the map, meant that Poles had ...
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