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  POLISH NEWS - Swieta - Holidays - Constitution of May 3 - 3 Maja - Dzien Uchwalenia Konstytucji.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
To the Poles and their descendants May 3rd is a national holiday for it bestows upon the Pole a priceless heritage of humanitarianism, tole-rance and a democratic precept conceived at a time when most of Europe lived under the existence of unconditional power and tyranny exemplified by Prussia and Russia.
Poland's parliamentary system actually began at the turn of the 15th century, but a series of defensive wars, internal stresses, outside influences,widespread permis-siveness and excessive concern for the rights of dissent brought Poland to the brink of disaster and anarchy in the 18th century.
In terms of democratic precepts, the May 3rd Constitution is a landmark event in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.
www.polishnews.com /fulltext/swieta/2001/swieta9.shtml   (1400 words)

  
  Poland - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Republic of Poland is a country 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 and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to the north.
Poland has a large agricultural sector of private farms, that could be a leading producer of food in the European Union now that Poland is a member.
Poland's principal ports and harbours are Gdańsk, Gdynia, Kołobrzeg, Szczecin, Świnoujście, Ustka, Warsaw, and Wrocław.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/PL   (2446 words)

  
 Poland Information Center - poland flight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
On May 3, 1791 the Sejm of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania voted for the May Constitution of Poland, Europe's first written constitution, and the second in the world after the Constitution of the United States.
Poland's first historically documented ruler, Mieszko I, was baptized in 966, adopting Catholic Christianity as the country's new official religion, to which the bulk of the population converted in the course of the next century.
The principal blitzkrieg poland ports and harbours are: Port of Gdańsk, Port of Gdynia, Port of Szczecin, Port of Swinoujscie, Port of Ustka, Port of Kolobrzeg, Gliwice, Warsaw, Wroclaw.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Poland.html   (2964 words)

  
 Constitution Day: May 3, 1791
Poland did not survive the second and third partitions, and as a political entity, it was effectively eliminated from the map of Europe for more than a century.
Indeed, the Constitution of 1791 epitomized a recognition that duty and responsibility were the true foundations of liberty.
The Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, is a reflection of the Polish spirit, a spirit that is devoted to truth and justice at all times, under all circumstances, and despite all impediments.
info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/constitution.html   (1330 words)

  
 Constitution of May 3, 1791 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Constitution abolished pernicious parliamentary institutions such as the liberum veto, which at one time had placed the sejm at the mercy of any deputy who might choose, or be bribed by an interest or foreign power, to undo all the legislation that had been passed by that sejm.
In the War in Defense of the Constitution, Poland was betrayed by its Prussian ally Frederick William II and defeated by the Imperial Russia of Catherine the Great, allied with the Targowica Confederation, a cabal of Polish magnates who opposed reforms that might weaken their influence.
The Constitution abolished several institutional sources of government weakness and national anarchy, including the liberum veto, confederations, confederated sejms (paradoxically, the Four-Year Sejm was itself a confederated sejm), and the excessive sway of sejmiks (regional sejms) stemming from the binding nature of their instructions to their Sejm deputies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_Constitution_of_Poland   (3752 words)

  
 Poland Resource Center - poland flight
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The principal ports and harbours are: Port of GdaDsk, Port of Gdynia, Port of Szczecin, Port of Swinoujscie, poland springs Port of Ustka, Port of Kolobrzeg, Gliwice, Warsaw, Wroclaw.
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www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Banks_P_-_S-/Poland.html   (3093 words)

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