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  Wikipedia: Plock
Plock is a city in central Poland, on Vistula river, with 131,011 inhabitants.
Situated in the Masovian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of the Plock Voivodship (1975-1998).
Some historians say that Plock was the capital city of Poland during their reign (1080-1138).
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/pl/plock.html   (146 words)

  
 Voivodships of Poland Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
A voivodship (in Polish województwo) is a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland since the 14th century.
As a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998, 16 new voivodships were created (effective January 1 1999) and replaced the 49 voivodships which had existed since 1 July 1975.
Tree smallest voivodships of Warsaw, Cracow and Lodz had special status of city voivodship; the city president (mayor) was also province governor.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/v/vo/voivodships_of_poland.html   (341 words)

  
 Plock Voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
thumb Plock Voivodship (Polish: województwo p&322;ockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Lodz Voivodship and Masovian Voivodship.
P&322;ock Voivodship (Polish: Województwo P&322;ockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 15th century till the partitions of Poland in 1795.
Together with the Rawa Voivodship and Mazovian Voivodship it formed the province of Mazovia.
plock-voivodship.iqnaut.net   (99 words)

  
 Qwika - similar:Olsztyn
Olsztyn Voivodship Olsztyn Voivodship (Polish: województwo olsztyńskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975–1998, superseded by Warmian-Masurian Voivodship.
Podkarpacie Voivodship (Polish: województwo podkarpackie) is an administrative region, or voivodship, of southeastern Poland.
West Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish: Pomorze Zachodnie; or Zachodnie Pomorze Voivodship (Polish: województwo zachodniopomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in northwestern Poland.
www.qwika.com /rels/Olsztyn   (1288 words)

  
 FTR 2002 / UN Treaty Bodies
The gmina, powiat and voivodship councils elect representative organs which are subordinate to them chairmen of gmina, powiat and voivodship councils and executive organs, rural administrators (in charge of several villages), city and town mayors and voivodship marshals.
Voivodship courts are courts of first instance in more serious or complicated cases, and serve as courts of second instance to review the rulings of district courts.
The president of a voivodship court in the area of judicial administration is an organ subject to the authority of the Minister of Justice.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord2002/documentation/tbodies/crc-c-70-add12.htm   (7149 words)

  
 Plock county (Poland)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Inside the wreath is a county's motto "POLSCE I ZIEMI PLOCKIEJ" (For Poland and the Land of Plock) in gold.
Since centuries, the Polish Scarlet was the color of the Mazovian Voivodship and the Land of Plock and on this background the white eagle, without the crown, was always placed.
As the present-day Plock County considers itself a historical successor of the traditions of Mazovia-Plock, the scarlet color of its flag and banner was retained.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pl-ma-pl.html   (797 words)

  
 Masovian Voivodship
The Masovian Voivodship (in Polish województwo Mazowieckie) is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish administrative regions or voivodships created in 1999.
Its principal cities are Warsaw (population 1.6 million) in the centre, Radom (230,000) in the south, Plock (130,000) in the west, Siedlce[?] (75,000) in the east, and Ostroleka (55,000) in the north.
The province is named for the historical region of Masovia with which it more or less corresponds.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Masovian_Voivodship.html   (89 words)

  
 PGSA - Towns Translaions Entries(P2)
The church was rebuilt and consecrated in 1670 by Maciej Kurski, the coadjutor of Poznan with the permission of Jan Gembiciki, Bishop of Plock.
An interesting source of the history of Przasnysz, since all the town and church documents perished, may be the manuscript found by Rev. Czaplinski, Rector of Przasnysz among the papers of the Bernardine monks, which is a chronicle of the town in Latin from the year 1585.
The subprefecture of Przasnysz, in voivodship Mazowsze, territory of Chiechanow, according to the inspection of 1661, encompassed the towns of Przasnysz and Chorzele, as well as the villages: Jednoronec or Sopechy, Zelazne, Szla, Ruda, Kobylak, Lipa, Baranow, Jastrzabka, Budki, and two leases, Dobrzankow and Janowo.
www.pgsa.org /towns/townsP2.htm   (8262 words)

  
 Fitch Polska S.A.
The rating also takes into account the city's high dependency on external financing needed to cover the costs of the new bridge being built over the Vistula River and the connecting road links, both of which are expected to increase of the city's indebtedness from 2004 onwards.
The City of Plock is located in Mazowieckie voivodship (region), in the north-west of Poland, 110 kms from Warsaw.
With a population of 128,400, Plock is a medium-sized city by Polish standards.
www.fitchpolska.com.pl /communique.htm?id=1156   (496 words)

  
 Polish culture: MUSEUM OF MAZOVIA
The Museum of Mazovia (Muzeum Mazowieckie) is housed in the restored Castle of the Mazovian Princes, which is today a seventeenth to nineteenth century structure having eleventh century foundations and fourteenth century towers.
The Museum was originally founded as the Public and School Museum of the Plock Voivodship on the initiative of members of the Plock Academic Society in 1821, it survived for approximately fifteen years, until 1836.
Revived in 1907 as the Museum of the Plock Region of Mazovia, it was named after Professor Ignacy Moscicki in 1928.
www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/in_mu_mazowieckie_plock   (273 words)

  
 pl P #322 ock Plock is a city in central...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
pl:Płock "Plock" is a city in central Poland Poland, on Vistula Vistula river, with 131,011 inhabitants.
Situated in the Masovian Voivodship Masovian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of the Plock Voivodship Plock Voivodship (1975-1998).
The main industry is oil oil refining - the country's largest oil refinery oil refinery is located there (it is served by a large pipeline pipeline leading from Russia Russia to Germany Germany.
www.biodatabase.de /Plock   (222 words)

  
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Jakub Buczacki, nominated to the voivodship of Podolia in 1485, his son, Jan, who was a member of the king's delegation to Moscow which concluded a six year peace with the Czar; and another Jakub, who was the bishop of Plock.
During the time he held the office of the Podolian voivodship, there were at least five major invasions by the Tartars - in 1450, 1452, 1453, 1469 and 1474.
This was regarded a major Polish victory and in one in which the Voivodship of Moldavia once again became subject to Polish rule.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/jazch5.html   (6317 words)

  
 General Government - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen), which included the entire Poznań Voivodship, most of the Lodz Voivodship, five counties of the Pomeranian voivodship, and one county of the Warsaw voivodship;
the remaining area of Pomeranian voivodship, which was incorporated into the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen (initially Reichsgau Westpreussen);
Ciechanow District (Regierungsbezirk Zichenau) consisting of the five northern counties of Warszawa Voivodship (Plock, Plonsk, Sierpc, Ciechanow and Mlawa), which became a part of East Prussia;
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 OPENKontakt.com - International Business Centre. Import, export, trade, cooperation
From the north-east to the north-west the voivodship is cut by the Vistula River, which is joined by the Bug and the Narew to the north of Warsaw.
The Mazowieckie voivodship is the largest one in the countrys new administrative map, both in terms of area and population.
The Mazowieckie voivodship is the seat of the biggest Polish university and the biggest technical university.
www.openkontakt.com /gb/wojewodztwa/mazowieckie.php   (566 words)

  
 Europe/Eurasia - USAID Mission to Poland
Three demonstrations at gasoline stations were completed in the Katowice vicinity; a priority list, ranking most of gasoline stations from the Upper Silesia Voivodship based on the leakages potential, was provided to the Katowice Environmental Inspectorate (WIOS); training for WIOS and computer software was provided and data base established; a dissemination seminar provided in 12/98.
The overall supervision of the progress is performed by the LEAP Advisory Panel (LEAP coordinators form Elk and Radom, Institute for Sustainable Development, consultants).
The Local Views section of the USAID close-out publication USAID and the Polish Decade includes a description of U.S. assistance to the environmental clean-up of the city of Krakow.
www.usaid.gov /pl/activity1.htm   (3042 words)

  
 Cohn - pafn03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Kutno (known as Kutna in Yiddish) is located in Plock.
The town is located at 19.23 longitude, 52.13 latitude, and is 41 km from Plock and 50 km from Lodz.
The earliest known Jewish community is town was 1579.
home.austin.rr.com /cohngen/pafn03.htm   (315 words)

  
 REC: Environmental Technology Market: Poland, part 4
However, the 10 most polluted voivodships in the country account for over 60 percent of the total national environmental protection expenditures, so an insight into the regional distribution of environmental problems can be gained from examining environmental spending across voivodships.
Most of the voivodships listed in Table 4.14 are located in the Silesia and Black Triangle regions in the south and south-west of Poland.
The latest reports are available from local WIOS offices; a sample of the 1995 annual voivodship reports which were available during the survey is presented in Section 4.9.
www.rec.org /REC/Publications/ETSurvey/FeeBased/Poland4.html   (4707 words)

  
 Structurae [en]: Plock
Geographic Index / Europe / Poland / Masovian Voivodship / Plock
city / town in Masovian Voivodship, Poland, Europe
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