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	Warsaw Poland \| Information \| Weather \| Facts and Figures \| Poland
		Poland's union with Lithuania in 1569 rendered Cracow somewhat out on a limb, and it was hence decreed that Royal elections were to be held at Warsaw, which lay at the centre of the two realms.
		The great magnates, who were the real powermongers, set up their own private districts in the city, with magnificent palaces to match.
		The capital itself was annihilated in the wake of the Warsaw Uprising.
	www.warsaw-life.com /info/info.php (916 words)

	Encyclopedia: Great Poland Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Polish uprisings (the second was the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1806 roku) was a military insurection of the Polish people in the Greater Poland region against the occupying Prussian forces after the Partitions of Poland (1772-1793).
		Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1848 roku) was a military insurection of the Polish people in the Grand Duchy of Poznań; (or the Greater Poland region) against the occupying Prussian forces, during the Spring of Nations period.
		Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919) - The Republic of Poland, a democratic country with a population of 38,626,349 and area of 312,685 km², is located in Central Europe, between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Great-Poland-Uprising (2908 words)

	Greater Poland Uprising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–19 roku) was a military insurrection of the Polish people in the Greater Poland region (also called the Grand Duchy of Poznań) against the German/Prussian forces.
		German conditions were: demobilisation of Great Polish Army, recognition by Poland of German claims to Great Poland and payment by Polish side for all damage made during uprising.
		With regard to fact that Great Poland, Cuiavia, Silesia and Pommeranai are still officially part of Reich, to avoid international repercussions, Polish government and NRL decide to resign from planned election of 126 MPs, giving temporary right of representation of Prussian Partition 16 MPs of Reichstag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Poland_Uprising (2833 words)

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		The mid-western part of Poland as a historical and geographical unit is composed of the Great Poland (Wielkopolska) region and the adjoining Lubusz Country (Ziemia Lubuska).
		On the river is sighted the town of Poznan, the biggest city of Great Poland and the capital of the whole region.
		Great Poland is the oldest part of the country from the historical point of view, sometimes it is called the "cradle of the Polish state".
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/geography/regions/wielkopolska/cached_2.html (3653 words)

	Greater Poland Uprising Online Research :: Information about Greater Poland Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Greater Poland Uprising of 1918 â“ 1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918â“19 roku) was a military insurrection of the Polish people in the Greater Poland region (also called the Grand Duchy of Poznan) against the German/Prussian forces.
		Regardless, this was the spark that started the uprising, but serious preparations had been going on since the day of the Kaiser's abdication November 9 1918 when the Weimar Republic overthrew the previous government of the German Empire in the last days of World War I.
		The Great Poland Uprising is considered to be one of the two most successful List of Polish uprisings : the second was the Great Poland Uprising of 1806 which was ended by the entry of Napoleon Army.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Great_Poland_Uprising.html (2833 words)

	History of Belarus (Great Litva)
		Napoleon was defeated by the vastness of Russian territory and the skill of Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov in the Battle of Borodino near Moscow, Russia.
		Great Duchy of Litva (Lithuania) in the 13-15th cc.
		Great Duchy of Litva (Lithuania) in the 14-15th cc.
	www.belarusguide.com /as/history/history.html (2810 words)

	Encyclopedia: Great Poland Uprising of 1806 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1806 roku) was a military insurection of the Polish people in the Greater Poland region against the occupying Prussian forces after the Partitions of Poland (1772-1793).
		It was organized by the general Jan Henryk Dąbrowski to help the incoming French forces under Napoleon I to liberate Poland from the Prussian occupation.
		The uprising was a decisive factor that allowed the formation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1806 and the inclusion of Greater Poland area in that political body.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Great-Poland-Uprising-of-1806 (214 words)

	Treaty of Versailles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There were also fighting in the eastern provinces of Germany, that were loyal to the emperor, but didn't want to be a part of the republic: Great Poland Uprising in Provinz Posen and 3 Silesian Uprisings in Upper Silesia.
		Territorial adjustments were made with the aim of grouping together ethnic minorities in their own states, free from the domination of once powerful Empires, specifically the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
		The treaty of Versailles did cripple Germany's economy in the early 1920's and left it vulnerable to the equally devastating Great Depression of the early 1930's, which in turn paved the way for the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, to seize power.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/t/tr/treaty_of_versailles.html (1803 words)

	Ignacy Jan Paderewski
		Ignacy Jan Paderewski (November 6, 1860 - June 29, 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and politician, born in Kurylowka, a village in the province of Podolia, Poland.
		At the end of World War I (1914-1918), when the fate of the city of Poznań and the whole region of Greater Poland was still undecided, Paderewski visited Poznan.
		Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/ig/ignacy_jan_paderewski.html (293 words)

	Station Information - Great Poland Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After World War I (1914-1918) lost by all lost by both Germany and Russia the fate of Poznań and Greater Poland was still undecided.
		The uprising forces consisted of Polish Military Organization of the Prussian Partition, People's Guards, Guards and Security Service and many volunteers.
		By the 15 January 1919 the uprising forces managed to take control of most of Poznań province taking part in heavy fightings with regular but demoralized German army, upto German-Allies ceasefire on 16 Ferbuary 1919.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/great_poland_uprising.html (144 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Originally part of the Kingdom of Poland, this area roughly coincided with the Polish region known as Great Poland.
		After the fall of Napoleon in 1815 according to the Vienna peace congress, Great Poland returned to Prussia, and became the Grand Duchy of Posen (1815-1846), an autonomous province under Hohenzollern rule with the rights of "free development of Polish nation, culture and language", and outside the German Confederation.
		However, shortly after the outbreak of the November Uprising the autonomy was cancelled and in 1846 the province was renamed to Province of Posen.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Province_of_Posen (1215 words)

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		The driver was great and we had a very ejoyable day (If it is possible to have an "enjoyable" dat at Auschwitz!!!).
		She remembers the war clearly, which took so much of her adolescence, and your care to our needs made it possible for her to travel and see so many places she didn't think was possible.
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	Our patron Wojciech Korfanty
		After the war, during Great Poland Uprising, Korfanty became a member of the Naczelna Rada Ludowa in Poznan, and a member of the Polish provisional parliament, the Constituanta-Sejm.
		In 1921 he was one of the leaders of the Third Silesian Uprising - a Polish insurrection against German rule in Upper Silesia which succeeded in restoring half of the province to Poland.
		In 1873 W.Korfanty, the great supporter of joining Silesia to Poland, the dictator of the III Silesian Uprising and the deputy prime minister in 1923, was born here.
	g3siemianowice.internetdsl.pl /angielski/Patrona.html (487 words)

	Treaty of Versailles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In fact a great deal of the provisions regarding Germany in the treaty can be linked back to this fear and desire for vengeance.
		There was also fighting in the eastern provinces of Germany that were loyal to the emperor, but did not want to be a part of the republic: the Great Poland Uprising in Posen and 3 Silesian Uprisings in Upper Silesia.
		However, the reparations were a failure in retrospect as well from the view that Germany made money off the treaty, as she did not repay most of her foreign loans in the 20s and did not complete her indemnity payments.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Treaty_of_Versailles (2194 words)

	Jarocin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jarocin is a town in central Poland with 25,700 inhabitants (1995).
		Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Kalisz Voivodship (1975-1998).
		Stanisław Taczak, Polish general and commander-in-chief of the Great Poland Uprising (1918-1919) - born on 8 April 1874 in Mieszków near Jarocin
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jarocin (98 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Warsaw uprising: How to heal the wounds?
		Poland's Prime Minister, Marek Belka, is keen for the German Chancellor to dispel the "bad atmosphere" between their two countries on the 60th anniversary of the uprising.
		Poland is only now completing its rebuilding as the USA and the UK allowed Stalin to capture half of the country (what was eastern Poland including Lvov) and then to control the rest of the country.
		Poland should celebrate and be very proud of the bravery of their fellow citizens that, against great odds, stood up to the Nazis and fought back with everything they had.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/talking_point/3942145.stm (3375 words)

	Warsaw Uprising: "For over two months..."
		The Uprising began as Soviet troops were attacking German positions in the vicinity of the city.
		This is particularly true of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, which, for various reasons, was not well reported even at the time, even though it was one of the major battles of the war.
		The Uprising and the resulting liberation of Warsaw by Polish Forces was to have allowed the Poles to establish a different relationship with the Soviets, asserting their political and military independence and leading to the establishment of a non-Communist Poland.
	wings.buffalo.edu /info-poland/classroom/uprising.html (3645 words)

	Stanislaw Taczak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		8 April 1874 in near Jarocin — 2 March 1960 in Malbork, Poland) was a Polish general.
		Till 8 January 1919 temporary commander-in-chief of the Great Poland Uprising (1918-1919).
		After the Polish Defence War of 1939 he was imprisoned in the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in Germany.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Stanislaw_Taczak (122 words)

	HISTORICAL EASTERN GERMANY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		the city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) with the delta of Vistula river at the Baltic_Sea was made the Free_City_of_Danzig under the League_of_Nations and partial Polish authority (area 1893 kmÂ², 408,000 inhabitants 1929).
		With the defeat of Poland in 1939, at the start of World_War_II, many of the regions lost to Germany after World I were annexed along with some other areas which had never been part of a unified Germany.
		The so-called "homesickness-tourism" which was often perceived as quite aggressive well into the 1990s has now the tendency to be viewed as a good-natured nostalgia tour rather than a source of anger and desire for reconquest of the lost territories.
	www.witwik.com /Historical_Eastern_Germany (1145 words)

	Ferdinand Foch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Foch prevented the advance of the German forces during the great offensive of Spring 1918 at the Second Battle of Marne in July 1918, mounting the counter-attack that was the beginning of the German defeat.
		In July 1918 Foch was made Marshal of France, and he later accepted the German surrender in November.
		For his advice during the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920 as well as pressure on Germany during the Great Poland Uprising he was awarded with the title of Marshal of Poland.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ferdinand_Foch (321 words)

	@Poland : Poznan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Medieval merchants made a great point of bringing their wares here each year on St. John's Day (24 June) and the tradition has continued.
		Following the partitions of Poland and the Congress of Vienna (1815) Poznan was annexed by Prussia, and became a centre of opposition against the ruthless Prussian policy of Germanification.
		Liberated during the Great Poland Uprising in 1918, the city developed rapidly in the inter-war period of independence.
	www.pl-info.net /en/cities/poznan/index.shtml (237 words)

	TREATY OF VERSAILLES FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		the city of Danzig (now GdaÅsk, Poland) with the delta of Vistula river at the Baltic Sea was made the ''Freie_Stadt_Danzig'' (Free City of Danzig) under the League of Nations and partial Polish authority (area 1893 kmÂ², 408,000 inhabitants 1929).
		Furthermore, the large number of casualties and massive economic damage resulting from the war (much of which was fought on French soil) caused a fear of future German aggression and an even greater sentiment for revenge.
		Independent Poland thwarted the Bolshevik advance into a war-weakened Europe at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, at a time when Germany faced Communist-inspired unrest and revolution.
	velocipay.com /Treaty_of_Versailles (2317 words)

	Explore - Part 25
		The midwestern part of Poland as a historical and geographical unit is composed of the Great Poland [Wielkopolska] region and the adjoining Lubusz Country [Ziemia Lubuska].
		On the river is Poznan, the biggest city of Great Poland and the capital of the whole region.
		The larger part of Great Poland returned to the motherland in 1919, as a result of the Great Poland Uprising, which began in Poznan on December 27, 1918.
	www.poloniatoday.com /explore25.htm (1384 words)

	Articles - Province of Posen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		However, shortly after the outbreak of the November Uprising Prussia broke the Vienna peace congress arrangements, ignored the autonomy and in 1846 the province was renamed to Province of Posen.
		Most of the province passed to Poland with the end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles after Great Poland Uprising 1918 and became PoznaÅ Voivodship.
		Due to the large number of resident Germans (first as settlers and then as occupiers) and the presence of powerful, warring nations on all sides and the internal strife between three major religious faiths, the area was often a battleground of ethnic conflicts.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Provinz_Posen (1173 words)

	Bambrzy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The villages were destroyed during the Great Northern War and subsequent epidemic of cholera.
		Many of them were soldiers of the Polish army fighting in Great Poland Uprising.
		The advent of democracy in Poland in 1989 saw the beginning of a renaissance of the Bamber culture.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Bambrzy.htm (358 words)

	Republic of Poland since1990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Obverse: the year 1939 of stylized digits with bullet holes, surmounted by a crowned eagle with an Amazon shield, as worn by the Polish Army in 1939; medal surface is granular and coarse.
		Awarded to vererans of the Great Poland insurrection (powstanie wielkopolskie) of 1918 against Germany, as the result of which the city of Poznan and the area of the former Grand Duchy of Poznan returned to Poland.
		Obverse: a map of Poland with the cities of Gdansk, Szczecin, Wroclaw and Warsaw marked on it.
	www.medals.lava.pl /pl/pl4b2.htm (1470 words)

	Second Polish Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the notable exception of the Marxist-oriented Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), most political parties supported this move.
		Centers of government that were created in Galicia (formerly Austrian-ruled southern Poland) included a National Council of the Principality of Cieszyn (created on November 19) and a Polish Liquidation Committee (created on October 28).
		Edward Rydz-Śmigły receiving the Marshal buława from president of Poland Ignacy Mościcki.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Polish_Republic (635 words)

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