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  Wikinfo | Poland
The Republic of Poland is a country in Central Europe, bordering Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and Russia (via the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to its north, as well as the Baltic Sea.
Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around the middle of the 10th century.
Poland has steadfastly pursued a policy of liberalising the economy and today stands out as one of the most successful and open transition economies, with about 20% unemployment and increasing wealth disparities.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Poland   (1068 words)

  
 Poland
On the north Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Russia, and Lithuania; on the east by Belarus and Ukraine; on the south by Slovakia and the Czech Republic; and on the west by Germany.
Poland's role as guardian of western European civilization against the Russians and later the Bolsheviks is commemorated by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the center of Warsaw.
Poland is an example par excellence of the imagined community and of the ability of nationalism to shape the world.
www.everyculture.com /No-Sa/Poland.html   (8930 words)

  
 Poland (08/06)
Poland was the first former centrally planned economy in central Europe to end its recession and return to growth in the early 1990s.
Poland's top national security goal is to further integrate with NATO and other west European defense, economic, and political institutions while modernizing and reorganizing its military.
Poland continues to be a regional leader in support and participation in the NATO Partnership for Peace Program and has actively engaged most of its neighbors and other regional actors to build stable foundations for future European security arrangements.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2875.htm   (4771 words)

  
 The Historial Setting: The Jagiellonian Era (1385-1572)
Poland's unlikely partnership with the adjoining Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Europe's last heathen state, provided an immediate remedy to the political and military dilemma caused by the end of the Piast Dynasty.
Putting aside their previous hostility, Poland and Lithuania saw that they shared common enemies, most notably the Teutonic Knights; this situation was the direct incentive for the Union of Krewo in 1385.
Poland and Lithuania would maintain joint statehood for more than 400 years, and over the first three centuries of that span the "Commonwealth of Two Nations" ranked as one of the leading powers of the continent.
info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/longhist2.html   (1830 words)

  
 Poland
Poland is a net contributor to the NATO collective defense effort and serves as a model and mentor for prospective NATO members.
Poland continues to be a strong advocate and supporter of Ukraine’s integration into Euro-Atlantic security, political, and economic institutions.
FMF is particularly important, as it focuses on increasing Poland’s support capability to deploy or receive forces, participate in coalition efforts, and accomplish a comprehensive plan for military modernization and reform.
www.state.gov /t/pm/64823.htm   (831 words)

  
 First World War.com - Primary Documents - Frederick C. Walcott on German Military Rule in Poland, September 1917
Reproduced below is an account of German military rule of Poland by a member of the U.S. Commission to Poland, Frederick C. Walcott.
This is the choice the German Government gives to the conquered Pole, to the husband and father of a starving family: Leave your family to die or survive as the case may be.
In Poland, the able-bodied men are being removed to relieve the German workman and make the land vacant for Germany.
www.firstworldwar.com /source/poland_walcott.htm   (2065 words)

  
 Courtly Lives - Poland Military Index Page
Poland's white eagle and wheatsheaf symbolizes the Vasa (Wasa) Family.
The inscription translates to: "With Thee and For Thee." In 1655, this banner was captured, in Warsaw, by the Swedes and was taken as a military trophy.
Poland was independent with 388,600 square kilometers, the sixth largest state in Europe by population.
www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/PolMilitary.html   (703 words)

  
 Military courts in Poland
Military provincial courts are the courts of appeal and they are located in Poznań and Warsaw.
Judicial supervision is a duty of Military Chamber of the Supreme Court and the administrative supervision is performed by the Ministry of Justice, exactly its Department of Military Courts.
That is the structure of military courts in Poland.
www.stud.umk.pl /~kcz/military_courts.htm   (306 words)

  
 THANK YOU POLAND - Military Photos
US President George W. Bush has invited Poland, a staunch ally in the Iraq war, to help organize a "rolling dialogue" planned for next week on the future of the country, an aide to the Polish president said Friday.
Poland contributed about 200 troops, including 56 members of its elite GROM commando, a logistics vessel and anti-chemical warfare unit to support the US-led intervention.
The United Nations and other countries that backed the US-led military intervention are being invited to attend as observers.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=514   (301 words)

  
 Group of Soviet Forces in Poland / Northern Group of Forces (WGF)
Thus, Moscow reluctantly accepted Poland's 1989 Round Table Agreement, the defeat of the communists in Poland's first open parliamentary elections, and the ensuing installation of a noncommunist government as beyond its legitimate concern.
As the first postcommunist leadership of Poland, the Mazowiecki government approached its relationship with the Soviet Union with cautious resolve, reassuring Moscow that Poland would fulfill its obligations as a member of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon.
Poland's pattern of military cooperation changed as drastically as its political climate in 1989.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/gsfp.htm   (635 words)

  
 Poland - Military Budget   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1991, for example, the Ministry of National Defense proposed to the Sejm a defense budget of 29 trillion zloty (for the value of the zloty-- see Glossary); the Sejm approved a budget of 23 trillion zloty, but subsequent cuts lowered the total to 16 trillion zloty.
Military experts considered the former figure too low to even maintain Polish equipment in status quo condition, leaving no funds for modernization.
Although cuts in senior military staff were expected to remedy the chronic imbalance between personnel and equipment allocations, in the first part of 1992 some 80 percent of the military budget went to maintaining personnel.
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-10811.html   (225 words)

  
 Records from the Central Military Archives in Warsaw (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
In connection with a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Library of Congress is receiving microfilm of declassified records from the Central Military Archives (Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe, CAW) in Warsaw covering the early years of the Cold War, primarily 1945-50.
Polish Attache at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington/ Affairs of the Foreign Military Section.
Retrospective Telephone Directories from Poland at the Library of Congress This compilation lists the Polish directories held and available at the Library of Congress as of November 2003.
www.loc.gov /rr/european/archiwum.html   (2604 words)

  
 Poland maps from Omni Resources.
Poland in Historical Maps from the 16th-18th Century (Polonia Atlas map z XVI - XVIII wieku).
This atlas of maps of the lands of Poland, published on the basis of a collection made available to the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography and printed prior to the end of the 18th century comprises, in tis majority, pictures of territories which had ever existed within the borders of the Polish state.
Historical Atlas of Villages In Poland (Atlas Historyczny Wsi W Polsce/Historischer Atlas der Ländlichen Siedlungen in Polen).
www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/poland2.htm   (399 words)

  
 Polish Armed Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poland's national security goal is to further integrate with NATO and other west European defense, economic, and political institutions via a modernization and reorganization of its military.
Poland is also playing an increasingly larger role as a major European peacekeeping power in the world through various UN peacekeeping actions.
Polish military forces are the origin of the two-fingers salute.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Poland   (914 words)

  
 Poland and World War II
France and Britain had signed a treaty with Poland stating that, if Germany invaded Poland and Poland resisted, France and Britain would come to Poland's defense.
After refusing to surrender, Poland was invaded by Germany from the west, the north, and the south.
Actually, the Soviet Union was recapturing land which Poland and the Soviets had last fought over in 1922.
members.aol.com /alicebeard/bogdan/history.html   (376 words)

  
 Category~Military of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Please search for Category~Military of Poland in The Encyclopedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.
Start the Category~Military of Poland article or add a request for it.
Look for "Category~Military of Poland" in the Wikimedia Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /c/a/t/Category~Military_of_Poland_a415.html   (161 words)

  
 Military Of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
If you would like to use this flag of Poland or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this map of Poland or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
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www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/poland_country_military.shtml   (179 words)

  
 Poland maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
Poland maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
Poland 1:10,000 City Topographic Maps by the soviet military.
These are the official topographic maps of Poland, giving complete coverage in 2500 sheets.
www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/poland1.htm   (464 words)

  
 U.S.-Poland Military Cooperation Appears To Improve - September 15, 2006 - The New York Sun
FORT WORTH, Texas — Military cooperation between America and Poland appears ready to take off to a higher level as Prime Minister Kaczynski is to arrive here today to accept three of 48 F-16s that his country is buying from Lockheed Martin.
In addition, the Pentagon is negotiating with Poland to place a Star Wars-type missile defense shield on Polish territory that could shoot down rockets fired at America or its NATO allies.
After emerging from Soviet domination behind the Iron Curtain, Poland joined NATO in 1999 and then established even closer military ties with America in 2003 when it agreed to lead the multinational zone in Iraq.
www.nysun.com /article/39780   (399 words)

  
 Hitler in the East
Military honors are given at Marshall Pilsudski's grave.
Text: "The great battle in Poland is nearing its height: the destruction of the Polish army west of the Weichsel.
The Polish military harbor at Gdingen is nearly surrounded.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/booklet4.htm   (864 words)

  
 RAND | Reports | Economic reform and the military in Poland, Hungary, and China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Economic reform and the military in Poland, Hungary, and China
The militaries, in turn, affected the course of the reforms.
In Poland and China, military intervention in politics retarded the implementation of the reforms.
www.rand.org /pubs/reports/R3961   (304 words)

  
 Poland Military News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thomas Strzalkowski, U.S. fencer-saber (Olympics-96), was born in Krakow, Poland.
Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity revolution that toppled Communism in Poland, was sworn in as the country's president.
U.S. military deaths in Iraq at 2,952 As of...
www.einnews.com /poland/newsfeed-poland-military   (1315 words)

  
 International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 3, p. 229   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
September to May, Poland was a great marsh and entirely unsuited for any kind of military operations.
To the question of Ciano as to what solution the Führer proposed, Hitler answered that Poland must give up political control of Danzig, but that Polish economic interests would obviously be reserved and that Polish general behavior must contribute to a general lessening of the tension.
He doubted whether Poland was ready to accept this solution since, up to the present, the German proposals had been refused.
www.holocaust-history.org /works/imt/03/htm/t229.htm   (425 words)

  
 About Poland - Military Photos
Poland did have one request - a humble one, in the great scheme of things.
In August 2003 Poland was granted Foreign Military Financing (FMF) 27 300 000 USD for buying American equipement, and the negotiations about HMMWV's lasted several years (the first test of HMMWV M1114 was in 2000 in the WITPIS).
The HMMWV will be assembled or partialy manufactured in Poland (the vehicle must be redesigned a little to meet Polish traffic regulations and safety rules).
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=4659   (1603 words)

  
 polish history, geneology polish, family history poland, medals, military history - The Order of the Virtuti Militari ...
A military historian was unable until now, to locate the names of the recepients of the Polish Order Virtuti Militari.
The Polish order of the VIRTUTI MILITARI was established 200 years ago by King Stanislaw August Poniatowski as the highest military decoration for gallantry the Polish nation bestows upon it's soldiers for acts of heroism above and beyond the call of duty.
The VIRTUTI MILITARI is equivalent to the American MEDAL OF HONOR or the British VICTORIA CROSS.
www.virtuti.com /order   (605 words)

  
 The New York Times > Washington > Bush to Seek 50% Increase in Military Aid to Poland
Poland leads a multinational division of about 6,000 troops in the country's south-central region.
Ukraine, now the fifth-largest contingent in Iraq and part of the multinational division led by Poland, announced last month that it was withdrawing its 1,600 troops.
But in Poland, surveys show that 7 in 10 people oppose involvement in the Iraq war.
www.nytimes.com /2005/02/09/politics/09cnd-prexy.html?ex=1265691600&en=f5bd68b8427dc214&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (626 words)

  
 Fact Sheet: U.S. - Poland Military Cooperation Initiative
The United States and Poland will establish a Military Cooperation Working Group to select specific areas for robust cooperation.
This initiative reflects the strategic importance of the Polish-American relationship and Poland's intention to transform its military into a 21st Century force -- much like the United States is transforming its own forces.
The first meeting of the Military Cooperation Working Group on Transformation will establish a "short list" of near-term projects and opportunities and discuss future goals.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/07/20020717-8.html   (277 words)

  
 Germany Divides Soviet Military Might with Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Besides Russia, in whose air force nearly 400 MiG-29 serve, five countries of the CIS have almost that very same number of these fighters (Ukraine - 237, Belorussia - 82, Uzbekistan - 36, Kazakhstan and Turkmeniya - 22 airplanes each).
Besides this, 135 MiG-29 fly in the skies of Europe, of which they belong to Hungary (28), Germany (23), Bulgaria (22), Poland (22), Slovakia (15), Yugoslavia (13 and Rumania (12).
As still larger number of MiG-29 are flying in the skies of Asia (almost 170), of which 66 are in the Indian air force inventory, 35 - Iran, 30 - the Korean People's Democratic Republic, 20 - Syria, 17 - Malaysia, 15 - Iraq and 4 - Yemen.
www.royfc.com /news/jan/3002jan02.html   (247 words)

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