Etwin and Ning visiting Poland

Etwin and Ning are visiting Poland

Straight from Hungary we are going north to Poland, a land of old mountains and rich

history.

Wow! Dinousaurs

here?!

Yes, dinosaurs lived here about 250 millions years

ago in Świętorzyskie Mountains (in south part of today’s Poland). Some other dinosaurs’ fossils

were found in Silesia (not far from our town

Dzierżoniów) – they are about 200 millions years old.

Now we are in one of the oldest mountains in

Europe – Sudety (Sudetes)

In Sudetes a wonderful cave is situated. The cave is called „Bear Cave” because the bones of cave bears were found there.

The Bear Cave was created for

about 48 millions years. The proccess started 50

millions years ago and ended

about 1,5 millions years

ago.

Cave bears lived in Sudetes in Europe during the Pleistocene

and became extinct at the beginning of the Last Glacial

Maximum, about 27,500 years ago.

The settlement at Biskupin belongs to the Hallstatt C and D periods (early Iron Age, 800-650 BC and

650-475 BC).

Etwin and Ning are going north and visiting the archaeological open air

museum Biskupin. It is an archaeological site and a life-size model of an Iron Age

fortified settlement in north-central (Wielkopolska) Poland.

Welcome to Biskupin

Not far from Biskupin, the first capital city of Poland – Gniezno is

situated. There, a very important event for

history of Poland took place in 966 - Baptism

of Poland.

Baptism of Polandin 966

Middle Ages is a very good period in history of Poland. First kings ruled the

country and it was becoming bigger and bigger. In 12th century our home town

Dzierżoniów was set up. The towns usually were surrounded with deffensive walls. We have some Middle Ages deffensive

walls in Dzierżoniów.Unfortunately Middle Ages is a period of

many wars in Europe.One of the biggest battle took place near

a village of Grunwald.

Battle of Grunwald

15th July 1410

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian

Commonwealth are three partitions which took place in the second half of the 18th century (1772,1793,1795)

and ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for 123

years.

Partitions of Poland

Partitions of Poland

Russian Empire

Kingdom of Prussia

Habsburg Austria

Those 123 years were very difficult for Polish people.

They tried to regain independence, many

national uprisings took place and at

last after WW1 (the first World War) we

fought our independence.

11.11.1918Poland is an independent

country again

Poland as independent only for 21 years. On 1st

September 1939 Germans invaded the country from

the west and on 17th September 1939 the

Soviet Union invaded from the east. The country was occupied by two enemy

countries. It was terrible time of war. A lot of

people were killed, taken to work or death camps…

01.09.1939 – 08.05.1945

World War II

Unfortunately, the end of WW2 in

Europe wasn’t the beginning of

freedom for Poland. The Soviet communism

occupied Poland till 1989. The years of communism were the time of terror,

empty shops, closed borders,…

Communism in Poland

(1945-1989)

In 1989 after many years of „Silidarity” fight for democracy, in Poland first

democratic election took place – that’s the end of communism in Poland.

Because of it, we could join European Union in 2004 and be here with you

Round table talks initiated the fall of communism in Poland in

1989.

We found out so much. Soon you will be able to check

your knowledge of the history of Poland in our quiz

And,… we are

finishing our

journey

through

history of

Poland.

See you soon Poland

The authors, students of classes 4a, 4c and

4d:Agata Izdebna

Wiktoria KurzyńskaMelania BednarzWiktoria HercuńJoanna Jaśkiewicz

Rafał MareckiAleksandra Różak

Szymon SztachelekDawid Zając

Laura Zabłocka

Teacher: Anna Szczepaniak

„Journey Through Time”

Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9

im. Mikołaja Kopernika

Dzierżoniów, Poland