Poland Authors : K. Titkin J. Podstawka G. Zbroszczyk
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- 1. Authors : K. Titkin J. Podstawka G. Zbroszczyk
- 2. Poland History The Biggest Cities and Monuments Famous People Traditions
- 3. Geography: Poland is a country in the centre of Europe Our neighbours are: Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany.
- 4. Flag: The Polish flag consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red.
- 5. Coat of arms: The White Eagle (Polish: orze) is the national coat of arms of Poland. It is a stylized white Eagle with a golden beak and fingers, and wearing a golden crown, in a red shield.
- 6. Athem: The text of the Song of the Polish Legions in Italy, is known as Dbrowskis Mazurek of Poland .
- 7. Poland's first historically documented ruler, Mieszko I, accepted baptism in 966 and adopted Catholicism as the new official religion of his subjects.
- 8. The Partitions of Poland Three partitions took place in the second half of the 18th century and were conducted by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria. In 1796 Poland disappeared from the map of the world and did not exist as a political entity. It reappeared and regained its independence atin 1918 at the end of World War I.
- 9. After World War II Poland became a communist "people's republic". Since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of communism, the modern history of Poland begins. In November 1990, Lech Wasa was elected president for a five-year term and Poland's first free parliamentary was held in October 1991.
- 10. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in May 2004.
- 11. Warsaw:
- 12. Cracow:
- 13. Gdansk:
- 14. Poznan:
- 15. Wroclaw:
- 16. Zakopane:
- 17. Lodz:
- 18. Czestochowa:
- 19. Torun:
- 20. Kielce:
- 21. Lublin:
- 22. Maria Sklodowska-Curie : (7 November 1867 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
- 23. Henryk Sienkiewicz : 5 May 1846 15 November 1916 He was a Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philanthropist. He is best remembered for his historical novels.
- 24. Jozef Pilsudski : 5 December 1867 12 May 1935 He was a Polish statesman; He was the person most responsible for the creation of the Second Republic of Poland in 1918.
- 25. Lech Walesa : born 29 September 1943; is a Polish politician, A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.
- 26. Wladyslaw Reymont : (May 7, 1867 December 5, 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 27. Wislawa Szymborska : (2 July 1923 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 28. John Paul II : 18 May 1920 2 April 2005, was the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church from 16 October 1978 to his death in 2005. He was the second longest-serving pope in modern history.
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