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	Poznań - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Greater Poland became the 'cradle of the Polish state', and both Mieszko I and Boleslaus I are buried in Poznań.
		Poznań was the capital of the Greater Poland area when it came under the control of Prussia in 1793 and had its administrative area renamed to South Prussia.
		Greater Poland was returned to Prussia and became the capital of the autonomous Grand Duchy of Poznań.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Poznan (1655 words)

	Pila - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Piła Voivodship (1975-1998).
		Piła is the largest town in the northern part of Greater Poland, and is a county capital.
		In 1806, together with most of Great Poland, it was recaptured by the Duchy of Warsaw, but in 1815 the Congress of Vienna granted it to Prussia again.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pila (966 words)

	Wielkopolska Uprising (1806) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1806 Greater Poland Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1806 roku) was a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the occupying Prussian forces after the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772–1793).
		The 1806 Greater Poland Uprising was organized by General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski to aid incoming French forces under Napoleon I in liberating Poland from Prussian occupation.
		The Wielkopolska Uprising was a decisive factor that allowed the formation of the Duchy of Warsaw (1806) and the inclusion of Wielkopolska in that polity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wielkopolska_Uprising_(1806) (146 words)

	Poznan - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Located by the Warta River, it is one of the oldest Polish cities, an important historical center and the capital of Greater Poland, the cradle of the Polish state, and Poland's capital in the mid-tenth century during the early Piast dynasty.
		It was the capital of Greater Poland, the cradle of the Polish state, and Poland's capital in the mid-tenth century during the early Piast dynasty.
		Poznań was the capital city of the Greater Poland region and one of the biggest Polish cities.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Poznan (1689 words)

	Station Information - Poznan
		With the second partition of Poland 1793 Poznań fell to Kingdom of Prussia and was made the capital of the province of South Prussia.
		During the Napoleonic Wars in 1806 the city was again occupied by the Polish troops under gen. J.H. Dąbrowski and in years 1806-1915 it was the capital of Poznań province belonging to the Duchy of Warsaw.
		With the rigged elections of 1947 Poland was put under strict control of the communist party and the Sovietisation of the state and economy.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/p/po/poznan.html (2103 words)

	Krakow - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (województwo malopolskie) (since 1999); previously it was the capital of Kraków Voivodeship (since the 14th century).
		The rebellion cost Poland the city of Gdansk, which was taken by the Teutonic Order, but German-speakers lost their political ambitions and began to Polonize.
		Poland was partitioned again in 1939, at the outset of the Second World War, and Nazi German forces entered Kraków in September of that year.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Krakow (2390 words)

	Comprehensive information and links about Poland Poznan
		It is also the administrative capital of the Greater Poland Voivodship.
		Greater Poland is often became the 'cradle of the Polish state', and both Mieszko I and Boleslaus I are burried in PoznaÅ.
		PoznaÅ currently administrates Greater Poland Voivodship, one of 16 provinces in the country.
	www.quicknation.com /Poland_Poznan.htm (1059 words)

	Revolution and Rebirth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Uprising was finally put down in 1865, and the Kingdom of Poland was abolished and a severe policy of persecution and "Russification" established.
		Despite all her problems Poland was able to rebuild her economy; by 1939 she was the 8th largest steel producer in the world and had developed her mining, textiles and chemical industries.
		Poland had been awarded limited access to the sea by the Peace of Versailles (the "Polish Corridor") but her chief port, Gdansk (Danzig) was made a free city (put under Polish protection) and so, in 1924, a new port, Gdynia, was built which, by 1938, became the busiest port in the Baltic.
	www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/Revolution.html (2268 words)

	Poznan Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.11.26 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul is the oldest Polish cathedral, founded in Poznań during the latter half of the 10th century.
		Shorty after Germany's defeat in World War I, the Great Poland Uprising (1918-1919) occurred, leading to the creation of the Second Polish Republic, where Poznań became the capital of Poznań Voivodeship.
		Poznań currently administrates Greater Poland Voivodeship, one of 16 provinces in the country.
	216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Poznan (1760 words)

	(Poland: History of its Elective Democracy)
		In 1572 Inquisition was banned in Poland, and from 1563 onwards the state ceased to execute sentences imposed by Church courts.
		The process of reunification of Poland from the dynastic subdivisions of the Middle Ages, and the growth of the state through political unions, led to the gradual shift of the political center of gravity of the country.
		JACEK JĘDRUCH was born in 1927 in Warsaw, Poland..
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /JJ.html (11665 words)

	Jan Henryk D±browski (1755-1818)
		Poland disappeared from the map of Europe, but Polish military formations gave the country a chance to re-enter international affairs with support of France in the Polish independence efforts.
		He took an active part in the uprising, defending Warsaw and leading an army corps in support of a rising in Greater Poland.
		Beginning with the words, "Poland has not yet perished...", it was to counteract the rumour spread by the Prussians that in 1794, after the defeat at Maciejowice, Tadeusz Ko¶ciuszko was to have shouted, "Finis Poloniae!" ("This is the end of Poland").
	www.poland.gov.pl /?document=1967 (959 words)

	Greater Poland Uprising (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Soldiers of Greatpolish Army Greater Poland Uprising of 1918-1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918-19 roku) was a military insurection of the Polish people in the Greater Poland region (also called the Grand Duchy of Poznań) against the occupying 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 9 November 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 Polish uprisings (The second was the Great Poland Uprising of 1806 which was ended by the entry of Napoleon's Army).
	greater-poland-uprising.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (761 words)

	Pila
		Piła (German Schneidemühl) is a town in northwestern Poland with 77,000 inhabitants (2001).
		Piła is the largest town in the northern part of Greater Poland, at now is capital of a county.
		The document was most probably issued by Queen Hedwig of Poland, but it did not survive.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Pila (906 words)

	Province_of_posen info here at en.16-yo.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Originally lump of the Kingdom of Poland, expanse roughly coincided with the Polish district customary as Greater Poland in the east.
		The Poles were the excellent ally of Napoleon in Central Europe, participating in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 'n supplying troops for their campaigns.
		Shortly after the outbreak of the November Uprising, Prussia revoked the autonomy of the province, in violation of the Vienna Peace Congress arrangements, 'n in 1846 the province was renamed the Province of Posen 'n brought to the undifferentiated perpetual as else provinces such as West Prussia 'n Silesia.
	en.16-yo.info /Province_of_Posen (1545 words)

	Courtly Lives - Kowalewo, Poland
		Jadwiga was later made St Jadwiga, by the Church, for her sacrifices to Poland.
		Eric (1396-1439), of the House of Pomerania, was the King of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway in 1397, and he fought against the German expansion in the Baltic.
		Kowalewo is now located in Greater Poland, in the county of Golub-Dobrzyn (flag above), and in the Kujawsko-pomorskie vojvodship.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Kowalewo.html (3141 words)

	Łódź - Free net encyclopedia
		Template:IPA]]), Poland's second-largest city (population 776,297 in 2004), lies in the center of the country.
		In 1806 it joined the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 became part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland.
		Until 1948 the city served as a de facto capital of Poland, since events during and after the Warsaw uprising had thoroughly destroyed Warsaw, and most of the government and country administration resided in Łódź.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Lodz (1929 words)

	Poznan
		Mieszko I's son, Boleslaus the Brave, was crowned king in 1001 and the Kingdom of Poland was formed.
		In recent weeks, demonstrators have once again taken to the streets of Budapest, inevitably recalling the uprising that was in full flow 50 years ago this month.
		When LG Electronics opened its television factory in Mlawa in north-central Poland in 1999, there was no problem finding workers in a country plagued by high unemployment and closed borders.
	www.governpub.com /Capitals-P/Poznan.php (1998 words)

	Poniatowski
		It was resurrected again as the Kingdom of Poland in 1916, to become an embryonic structure for the independent Polish state, the Second Republic, which came into existence in 1918.
		There was the old Poland, which Stanislaw August and briefly Kosciuszko led when she was lost, and the new Poland, which Pilsudski led when she was regained.
		A legend already in his own time, Poniatowski's cult developed in the 19th century in Poland and abroad, and was in part promoted by the faction of Adam Czartoryski and other conservative circles, who adopted him as their symbol, while in fact were opposed to him when he was alive.
	members.core.com /~gugalo (5709 words)

	Biography - Antoni Radziwill
		Antoni Radziwi was born on June 13, 1775 in Berlin to Micha Hieronim Radziwi and Helena nee Przedziecka.
		During the Napoleon Bonaparte campaign in Poland in 1806 he tried to incite a Polish uprising against the French army and tried to convince Prince Józef Poniatowski to abandon his French allies and join the cause of Russia and Prussia.
		Shortly after the outbreak of the November Uprising he was deprived of all the powers and the Grand Duchy was abolished and its autonomy was cancelled.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO3864/antoni-radziwill-biography.html (385 words)

	Lodz
		After the partitions of Poland Łódź came under Prussian administration and was renamed to Lodsch in 1793.
		In 1806 it joined Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 was given to the Russian-controlled Congress Poland.
		Until 1948 the city was a de facto capital of Poland since Warsaw has been totally destroyed during and after the Warsaw uprising and most of the government and country administration resided in Łódź.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Lodz (1419 words)

	List_of_polish_uprisings info here at en.13-year.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Polish concept of uprising is derived from the system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where the citizens were supposed to play an important role in the governing of the country.
		The Polish supposition of uprising is derived from the multiplex of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where the citizens were supposed to legit an pressing countenance in the governing of the country.
		The Silesian Uprisings (Polish: Powstania ÅlÄskie) was a settled of ten warlike insurrections (1919-1921) of the Polish in the Upper Silesia stomping ground against the occupying German/Prussian painss in tidiness to liberate the stomping ground and slap on Poland, which had regained her independence after World War I (1914-1918)
	en.13-year.info /List_of_Polish_Uprisings (650 words)

	Historical Eastern Germany
		The city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) with the delta of the Vistula river at the Baltic Sea was made the Free City of Danzig under the League of Nations and partially Polish authority (area 1893 km², 408,000 inhabitants 1929).
		With the defeat of Poland in 1939 at the start of World War II, many of the regions Germany lost after World War I were occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany, along with some other areas which had never been a part of a unified Germany before (such as Suwałki).
		The problem with the status of those territories recognised as German by the international community between 1920 and 1945 east of the Oder–Neisse rivers was that in 1945 the concluding document of the Potsdam Conference was not a legally binding treaty, but a memorandum.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Historical_Eastern_Germany (1342 words)

	Bydgoszcz - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bydgoszcz (Polish pronunciation: Template:IPAudio, Template:Lang-de (Template:Audio), Latin: Bydgostia) is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers, with a population of 369,151 (2004).
		Together with Toruń it has been the capital of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, and was previously the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodship (1947-1998) and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodship (1945-1947).
		Bydgoszcz followed the history of Greater Poland until 1772, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the First Partition of Poland.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Bydgoszcz (613 words)

	gazeta2-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The insurrectionists had hoped to gain the support of the local peasantry (recalling the victory at Raclawice) but the peasants, having never benefited from the liberal ideals proposed by the intelligensia, used the insurrec tion as an excuse to rid themselves of their landlords; it was the last "jacquerie" (or peasants' uprising) in European history.
		In Prussian Poland, despite ruthless oppression, the Poles concen trated on light industry and agriculture (and before long Poznan became the chief source of food for the whole of Germany).
		In Silesia, under German rule since 1742, the development of mining and heavy indus try made her a chief industrial centre and thus the Prussian attempt to exterminate all traces of Polish language and culture was at its most ruthless, yet they survived.
	home.comcast.net /~kalemba/gazeta2-3.html (3629 words)

	Polish Army During the Napoleonic Wars (Infantry - Cavalry - Artillery) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1789 Poniatowski returned to Poland, became general and in 1792 won against the Russians at the Battle of Zielence.
		Poland required numerous and good quality light cavalry to defend its long borders against the elusive and agile Cossacks and Turks.
		Poland was an open, flat country bordering the steppes of Asia.
	web2.airmail.net /napoleon/polish_army_2.htm (8579 words)

	Wikinfo \| Poznan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During the Napoleonic Wars in 1806 the city was again occupied by the Polish troops under gen. J.H. Dąbrowski and in years 1806-1815 it was the capital of Poznań province belonging to the Duchy of Warsaw.
		After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, according to the Vienna peace congress, Posen again fell to Prussia, and was made the capital of the Grand Duchy of Posen (1815-1846).
		At the end of World War I, the Great Poland Uprising (1918-19) promised to restore Great Poland and its capital as a Polish nation.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Poznan (1974 words)

	Lodz - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		It is located in the centre of the country and serves as the capital of the Lódz Voivodeship.
		During the Invasion of Poland the Polish forces of the Lódz Army of General Juliusz Rómmel defended Lódz against initial German attacks.
		Until 1948 the city served as a de facto capital of Poland, since events during and after the Warsaw uprising had thoroughly destroyed Warsaw, and most of the government and country administration resided in Lódz.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Lodz (2676 words)

	SkyscraperCity - Poznan - Capital of the Province of Greater Poland
		April 5th, 2005 09:07 AM Poznań is one of the oldest of the Polish cities, an important historical center and the capital of Greater Poland, the cradle of the Polish state, and Poland's capital in the mid-tenth century during the early Piast dynasty.
		From the 2nd partition of Poland in 1793 until 1806, Poznań was in South Prussia (part of Prussia), in the years 1806 - 1815 in Duchy of Warsaw, then till 1915, Poznań was a capital of autonomous (after 1830 semi-autonomous) part of Prussian kingdom - Grand Duchy of Poznań.
		Since 1918 (after Great Poland Uprising and the defeat of Germany in World War I) Poznań is in Polish state (excluding the 6 years of Nazi occupation during World War II).
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=198718 (438 words)

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