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| 1 | Greater Poland Voivodeship ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 52.3339 / 17.2472 | Greater Poland Voivodeship (in Polish: Województwo Wielkopolskie), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province,Arkadiusz Belczyk, , 2002-2006. or Greater Poland Province, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland (...) | |
| 2 | Poland ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 52.2323 / 21.0084 | Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38 (...) | |
| 3 | Gdańsk ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 54.352 / 18.6466 | Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the capital of Kashubia, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area (...) | |
| 4 | Neman ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 55.3367 / 21.2472 | The Neman, Nemunas, Nyoman, Niemen or Memel,In the languages of various nations through which the river either flows or formerly flowed or that have distinct names for it: Lithuanian: Nemunas; , , ; ; ; ; ; , Neman; , Niman a major Eastern European river (...) | |
| 5 | Geography of Poland ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 52.0 / 20.0 | Poland is a country in East-Central Europe with an area of 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq. mi.), and mostly temperate climate. Central Statistical Office (Poland). 28 July 2008. Generally speaking, Poland is an almost unbroken plain reaching from the Baltic Sea in the north, to the Carpathian (...) | |
| 6 | Poznan University of Medical Sciences ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 52.4094 / 16.9189 | Poznan University of Medical Sciences is a prominent Polish medical university, located in the city of Poznań in western Poland. It traces its beginnings to the foundation of Poznań University in 1919, and was formed as a separate institution in 1950. It gained the status of uniwersytet in 2007. (...) | |
| 7 | National road 2 (Poland) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 159 Lat/Lng : 52.146 / 22.2259 | National road 2 is part of the Polish national road network. The highway connects the western and eastern regions of Poland, running from Świecko at the German border to Terespol at the border with Belarus, traversing through the Lubusz, Greater Poland, Łódź Masovian and Lublin voivodeships (...) | |
| 8 | Duchy of Warsaw ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 52.2333 / 21.0167 | The Duchy of Warsaw was a Polish state established by Napoleon I in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit. The duchy was held in personal union by one of Napoleon's allies, King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (...) | |
| 9 | Second Polish Republic ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 52.2167 / 21.0 | The Second Polish Republic, commonly known as interwar Poland, refers to the country of Poland in the period between the First and Second World Wars (1918–1939). Officially known as the Republic of Poland , the Polish state was re-established in 1918, in the aftermath of World War I (...) | |
| 10 | Battle of Grunwald ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 209 Lat/Lng : 53.4861 / 20.1247 | The Battle of Grunwald, First Battle of Tannenberg or Battle of Žalgiris, was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War. The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) and Grand Duke Vytautas, (...) | |
| 11 | Choszczno ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 53.1692 / 15.4194 | Choszczno is a town (population around 16,173) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The town is in a marshy district between the river Stobnica and Klukom lake, southwest of Stargard Szczeciński and on the main railway line between Szczecin and Poznań (...) | |
| 12 | Biała Podlaska ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 142 Lat/Lng : 52.0333 / 23.1167 | Biała Podlaska , is a city in eastern Poland with 58,047 inhabitants (2005). It is situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the capital of Biała Podlaska Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Biała Podlaska County, although the city is not part of the county (...) | |
| 13 | Katyn (rural locality) ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 54.7701 / 31.6898 | Katyn is a rural locality (a selo) in Smolensky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located approximately to the west of Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast. (...) | |
| 14 | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 50.0789 / 14.4786 | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government-funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government (...) | |
| 15 | Wrocław ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 51.1167 / 17.0333 | Wrocław is a city in western Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly 350 kilometres (220 mi) from the Baltic Sea to the north and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Sudeten Mountains to (...) | |
| 16 | Białystok railway station ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 53.1344 / 23.1356 | Białystok railway station is the most important railway station in the city of Białystok, Poland. It is sometimes referred to as Białystok Central (Białystok Centralny), to distinguish it from six other, much smaller, stations located in the city. (...) | |
| 17 | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 220 Lat/Lng : 50.0614 / 19.9383 | The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after 1791 the Commonwealth of Poland, was a dualistic state, a bi-confederation of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch, who was both the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of (...) | |
| 18 | Oder–Neisse line ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 53.9263 / 14.224 | The Oder–Neisse line is the international border between Germany and Poland. It was drawn at the Potsdam Conference in the aftermath of the Second World War and is primarily delineated along the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers in Central Europe, meeting the Baltic Sea to the north, just west of the (...) | |
| 19 | 2010–11 Czech First League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 50.0833 / 14.4167 | The 2010–11 Czech First League, known as the Gambrinus liga for sponsorship reasons, was the 18th season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football league. It began on 16 July 2010 and finished on 28 May 2011. Sparta Prague were the defending champions, having won their 11th Czech Republic (...) | |
| 20 | Opera Nova Bydgoszcz ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 53.1244 / 17.9975 | The Opera Nova is an opera house located in Bydgoszcz and established in 1956, which also plays the role of a musical theater. It is one of the 10 opera houses in Poland and the only one of this size in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (...) | |
| 21 | Vselyub ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 182 Lat/Lng : 53.7186 / 25.7986 | Vselyub is an agrotown in Navahrudak District, Grodno Region, Belarus. Vselyub is a centre of selsoviet (rural council) within the administrative division of Belarus. Before the Partitions of Poland, it belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (...) | |
| 22 | 16th Air Army ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 54.2656 / 12.4328 | The 16th Red Banner Air Army was the most important formation of the Special Purpose Command. Initially formed during the Second World War as a part of the Soviet Air Force, it was from its 2002 reformation to its 2009 disbandment the tactical air force component of the Moscow Military District (...) | |
| 23 | Polish Golden Age ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 198 Lat/Lng : 50.05 / 19.9333 | The Polish Golden Age refers to the period from the late 15th century Jagiellon Poland to the death of the last of the Jagiellons, Sigismund August in 1572. Some historians claim that the Golden Age lasted until the mid-17th century, when in 1648 the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was ravaged by the (...) | |
| 24 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 227 Lat/Lng : 50.2548 / 28.6547 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Ukraine in ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins. Its cathedral episcopal see is the St. Sophia's Cathedral, Zhytomyr , Zhytomyr Oblast (...) | |
| 25 | World Youth Day 2016 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 50.0309 / 20.0934 | World Youth Day 2016 (WYD 2016) was an international Catholic event focused on faith and youth, that took place from 26 to 31 July 2016 in Kraków, Poland, organised by the Catholic Church. It was the third World Youth Day held in Central Europe (...) | |
| 26 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vilnius ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 54.9 / 23.95 | The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vilnius is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania. Established as the Diocese of Vilnius in the 14th century, it was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Pius XI on October 28, 1925 (...) | |
| 27 | Bereza Kartuska prison ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 152 Lat/Lng : 52.5278 / 24.9694 | The Bereza Kartuska prison (literally "Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska") was a Detention Camp in the Second Polish Republic, based in Bereza Kartuska, Polesie Voivodeship (today Biaroza in Belarus). Created on June 17, 1934 by an order of President Ignacy Mościcki, the camp was established to (...) | |
| 28 | Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 138 Lat/Lng : 50.9056 / 34.7954 | Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine is a state-owned higher educational institution within the system of the National Bank of Ukraine of the IVth level of accreditation. It is located in the city of Sumy, in the north-eastern part of Ukraine (...) | |
| 29 | Collegium Da Vinci ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 52.4158 / 16.9313 | Collegium Da Vinci is a Polish private university in Poznan. (...) | |
| 30 | International Network for Sustainable Energy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 56.1594 / 10.2061 | The International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE) is an international, non-profit organisation (NGO) network of environmental organizations promoting sustainable energy to protect the environment and to decrease poverty. (...) | |
| 31 | History of Poland during the Jagiellonian dynasty ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 198 Lat/Lng : 50.05 / 19.9333 | The rule of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland between 1386 and 1572 spans the late Middle Ages and early Modern Era in European history. The dynasty was founded by the Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila (Władysław II Jagiełło), whose marriage to Queen Jadwiga of Poland formed a Polish–Lithuanian union (...) | |
| 32 | Kaziuko mugė ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 54.6853 / 25.2867 | Kaziuko mugė or Saint Casimir's Fair is a large annual folk arts and crafts fair in Vilnius, Lithuania, dating to the beginning of the 17th century. The fair is traditionally held in city's markets and streets on the Sunday nearest to March 4 (Feast of St (...) | |
| 33 | Crown of the Kingdom of Poland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 220 Lat/Lng : 50.0614 / 19.9383 | The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (; Latin: Corona Regni Poloniae), commonly known as the Polish Crown, or, simply, the Crown, is the common name for the historic (but unconsolidated) Late Middle Ages territorial possessions of the King of Poland, including Poland proper (...) | |
| 34 | Venice Commission ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 48.5956 / 7.7762 | The Venice Commission is an advisory body of the Council of Europe, composed of independent experts in the field of constitutional law. It was created in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at a time of urgent need for constitutional assistance in Central and Eastern Europe (...) | |
| 35 | Bukovinian State Medical University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 252 Lat/Lng : 48.2914 / 25.9322 | Univers Education is our official representative of the University Bukovinian State Medical University (abbreviated as BSMU or БДМУ) is one of the largest higher educational establishment in Chernivtsi. It is a modern multiprofile educational institution of the IV accreditation level, included into (...) | |
| 36 | Tente International ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 51.1181 / 7.1968 | TENTE International GmbH, based in Cologne, Germany, is the holding company of the TENTE Group. Castors and wheels are manufactured under the TENTE registered trademark. The history of the company began in 1923 in the district of Wermelskirchen Tente with the sale of ball castors and castors for (...) | |
| 37 | Lutsk National Technical University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 194 Lat/Lng : 50.7258 / 25.296 | Lutsk National Technical University is a Ukrainian university in Lutsk at the IV accreditation level. (...) | |