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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nida (river)
		Nida is a river in central Poland, a tributary of the Vistula river (near Nowy Korczyn), with a length of 151 kilometres (29th longest) and the basin area of 3,865 sq.
		Though navigable for a few months only, the rivers of Poland have always been of considerable importance for the traffic of the country, and their importance is further increased by several canals connecting them with the Russian and German rivers.
		Nida is a river in central Poland, a tr...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nida-%28river%29 (262 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polish ecclesiastics brought it about that the adherents of the Eastern Schism in the Province of Halicz (Galicia) made their submission to the Holy See at Florence in 1439.
		As early as 970 a Polish bishopric was established at Posen, under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Magdeburg.
		The Partition of Poland undermined the existence of the Polish Benedictines.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12181a.htm (17014 words)

	Poland
		The larger settlements and the main communications routes of this zone lie in and along the river valleys; the remainder of the area is mostly wooded and thinly populated.
		In spring the lowland rivers are swollen by melted snow, the effect intensified both by ice dams (which block the rivers for one to three months) and by the fact that the thaw first strikes the upper reaches of the northward-flowing rivers.
		By the 19th century Polish was well established both as a literary vehicle and as the dominant language of common speech in Poland, despite attempts of the partitioning powers to Germanize or Russify the population.
	www.nd.edu /~kielbasa/poland.htm (9198 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Polish cavalry received 58 million zloty in the 1938-39 military budget, or 7.3 percent of the total, compared to 46.3 million for the entire Air Force (5.8 percent).
		Based on Polish experience of their war with the Soviets — and in the 1930s, this represented the most recent combat lessons of any army in Central or Eastern Europe — the slant toward cavalry made good sense.
		Polish doctrine therefore gave cavalry a defensive mission — the cavalry would rush to threatened areas and hold them until the infantry could counter-attack.
	www.avalanchepress.com /PolishCavalry.php (1231 words)

	FIRST LEGO League \| Berlin
		In addition to the subway system, there are several war-time bunkers, huge vaulted rooms, cemeteries, an airplane factory and power plants which were built in the 1930âs, and even a pneumatic tube dispatch system built by the Kaisers in the 19th century to transport letters and postcards.
		The Havel and Spree rivers and a network of canals connect the city by water with the Baltic Sea.
		Berlinâs geographical location made the city the main transportation route in the country and it grew to be an industrial and commercial hub during the eighteenth century.
	www.firstlegoleague.org /default.aspx?pid=8160 (857 words)

	Swedish Empire
		Her newly won possessions were both small and scattered, though, on the other national hand, she had secured the practical control of the Position of three principal rivers of north Germany - the Oder, the Elbe and the Weser - and reaped the full advantage of the tolls levied on those great commercial arteries.
		The estuaries of all the great German rivers (for the Niemen and Vistula are properly Polish rivers) debouched in Swedish territory, within which also lay two-thirds of Lake Ladoga and one-half of Lake Peipus.
		A defensive alliance with Sobieski August 4, 1677 was rendered inoperative by the annihilation of Sweden's sea-power; the Battle of Öland, June 17, 1676; Battle of Fehmarn, June 1677 and the difficulties of the Polish king.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sw/swedish_empire.html (3079 words)

	Poland
		Poland, officially the Republic of Poland (Polish Polska Rzeczpospolita), country in central Europe, bordered on the north by the Baltic Sea and Russia ; on the east by Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine ; on the south by the Czech Republic and Slovakia ; and on the west by Germany.
		After World War II (1939-1945), Polish territory suffered a substantial net loss, as the land ceded to the USSR in the east was nearly double that acquired from Germany in the west.
		Poland's borders are marked by the Sudeten Mountains in the southwest, the Carpathian Mountains in the southeast, and Odra and Neisse rivers in the west, and the Western Bug River in the east.
	www.ovayonda.biz /lodging/country/pl.html (704 words)

	Rivers of Steel tour drives through landscape of industrial heritage
		It's the Rivers of Steel Heritage National Heritage Area, where heavy industry was king and financial empires were built.
		Like the Polish Falcons or the Serbian Club, the organizations often had a simple hall where members could eat, drink and meet marriage prospects of similar background.
		Near the river bank is an enormous steel gantry, set in a grassy area and still perched high above its tracks.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000524steelvalley2.asp (2052 words)

	Part 1: The Polish Government - The Churchill Centre
		A Polish government-in-exile, led by Wlaydslaw Sikorski, was formed in France, and, after the fall of France in June, 1940, removed to England.
		He pr6posed that several Polish leaders from Lublin and London be invited to Moscow to form a new provisional government, a Presidential Committee of three and a new constitution, under which free elections would be held.
		Stalin wanted a Polish government that was friendly to Russia, and, at least partly as a result of the German invasion of 1941, he felt that he could ensure the friendliness of a country on his border only by controlling it, directly or indirectly.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=89 (4992 words)

	Vistula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vistula ( Polish : WisÅa) is the longest river in Poland.
		During that time the Vistula River ran into the Mare Suebicum, which was later called Baltic Sea.
		The Vistula river is only a short portage from the Dnieper River, and thence to the Black Sea.
	www.wikipedia.com /wiki/Vistula (472 words)

	Raping water (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the whole system of river engineering the most surprising fact is that the works are financed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection although it stands in apparent opposition to conservation of nature, the beauty of Polish rivers included.
		River regulation is accompanied by destruction of natural balance of flora and fauna of the banks.
		Polish waters cannot be privatised according to regulations proposed in some of the drafts of the new law.
	www.zb.eco.pl /GB/18/water.htm (2028 words)

	Polish rivers for kayaking lovers
		Polish rivers combined measure19 thousand kilometers, 4800 of which may be used for kayaking.
		This is a changing river, with a slow current leading you through the depths of marshes and over the meadows, and untamed and fast-moving through rapids as if it were a mountain river.
		Brda is known as the queen of the Bowiackie rivers, as most of the 238 kilometers of the river flows through the primeval forest of Bory Tucholskie.
	www.visiteurope.com /redirect/?oid=%5Bcom.tiscover.etdp.contenttypes.Interest%3A%7Bid%3D674105%7D%5D&lang=es_IA (498 words)

	Poland: Environmental Issues (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The law was intended to ensure that the Polish government provides efficient and rational use of fuels and energy for the country, taking into consideration environmental protection requirements.
		The Polish government's facility-specific, compliance determinations option gives power plants that are certified as environmentally EU-compliant tariff reductions earlier than non-compliant plants, a policy geared to encourage early adoption of EU requirements.
		Polish energy consumption trends have mirrored the country's transition to democracy.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/polenv.html (2473 words)

	08/09/01 -- Polish government must take new approach to prevent future floods says WWF (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WWF is also concerned that despite the floods, the Polish government has recently signed an agreement with a consortium of companies to build a new dam, the Nieszawa dam.
		The EU standards safeguard the natural functions of rivers and help to prevent the destructive effects of digging channels and building dykes and dams when more sustainable means for meeting needs for water and energy are readily available.
		In particular, WWF believes the Polish government must place emphasis on widening high-level water beds by moving embankments farther from the main river bed where possible.
	www.forests.org /archive/europe/pogomust.htm (557 words)

	Quality of Boundary Waters of Poprad and Dunajec Rivers
		The co-operation with the Polish Republic in these boundary rives covers particularly the issues of treatment of rivers, announcement and forecast services, exploitation of boundary waters, and last but not least, protection thereof against contamination.
		The co-operation with the Polish Republic is developed under the Agreement between the Slovak Government and the Polish Government on Water Management in Boundary Waters“ which was signed in Warsaw on May 14, 1997.
		This classification was influenced by the results of classification of the basic physical-chemical indicators of quality of water and the microbiologic contamination of the boundary sections of rivers, and partially by a slight alkali reaction of waters, which is related to the natural factors and the human activities in the river basins.
	www.aquamedia.at /templates/index.cfm?id=14515 (798 words)

	Western Bug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The part between the lake and the Vistula River is usually referred to as Bugo-Narew.
		Bug is 772 km long (587 km in Poland) and is the 4th longest Polish river.
		The other river "Bug" is the Southern Bug.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bug_(Rivers) (97 words)

	Polish Army on the Eastern Front
		In July and August 1944 the Polish troops fought at the bridgeheads on the Western Bank of the Vistula River, and in the battle of Studzianki the Polish armored brigade fought its first battle against the Germans.
		The Polish Army fighting in the East was the greatest regular military force fighting at the side of the Red Army.
		The corpses of the Polish officers exhumed in Katyń, 1943.
	www.ww2.pl /Polish,Army,on,the,Eastern,Front,24.html (599 words)

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		A sampler platter of Polish entrees — stuffed cabbage, Polish sausage, mixed pirogi and sauerkraut — is a mere $11, typical of a place where few of the entrees exceed $15.
		Polish pirogi, according to the menu, are stuffed with sauerkraut and mushrooms; Russian pirogi are stuffed with potatoes and cheese.
		Sauerkraut is to Polish food as refried beans are to Mexican cooking -- a filling staple, of which one has soon had enough.
	www.northjersey.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MjImZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwNjg0NTEmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNQ== (910 words)

	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (or the Republic of the Two Nations : in Polish, Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów ; in Lithuanian, ečpospolita ; in Latin, Regnum Serenissima Poloniae ; in Belarusian, Рэч Паспалі́тая) was a federal monarchy - republic formed by the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569, lasting until 1795.
		To be Polish, in the non-Polish lands of the Commonwealth, was then much less an index of ethnicity than of rank ; it was a designation largely reserved for the landed noble class, which included members of Polish and non-Polish origin alike.
		Silesia ( Polish : Śląsk) was not part of the Commonwealth, but small parts belonged to various Commonwealth kings; in particular, the Vasa kings were dukes of Opole from 1645 to 1666.
	phatnav.com /wiki/index.php?title=Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth (4276 words)

	Poland - Drainage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the tributaries, the Bug, defines 280 kilometers of Poland's eastern border with Ukraine and Belarus.
		The drainage effect on a large part of Polish terrain is weak, however, especially in the lake region and the inland areas to its south.
		The first is caused by melting snow and ice dams in spring adding to the volume of lowland rivers; the second is caused by heavy rains in July.
	www.countrystudies.us /poland/23.htm (188 words)

	Rushing Rivers Blog » 2007 » February
		Hence, for Europe, the rivers of this part of Poland are a unique example of almost undeveloped landscape in lowland areas.
		The Rushing Rivers Institute was inaugurated on January 25th at Hampshire College’s Red Barn with more then fifty environmentalists from a broad spectrum of organizations and academic institutions throughout New England in attendance.
		The Rushing Rivers Institute’s is in the process of registering as a non-profit organization, with the initial goal of securing base funds through donations and research grants, to assure the affordability of the offered services.
	blog.rushingrivers.org /?m=200702 (635 words)

	Klub Gaja - Campaign "Vistula Now"
		The Queen of Polish rivers possesses a huge economic and social potential, which should be a basis for any discussions about the future of this river.
		The main theme was discussion about the future of Polish rivers and river valleys in the context of the Report of the World Commission on Dams and the investments accompanying the financial means from the European Investment Bank.
		River valleys are the only ecological corridors for the free migration of birds and animals from Northern to Southern Europe and to Africa.
	www.klubgaja.pl /en/vistula (4576 words)

	The Polish Arabian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the earliest days, the test of a horse's quality was war, which was later replaced by hard, long distance rides and swims in fast, strong rivers, where those unable to cross the difficult current were left to drown.
		Most Polish horses go to the track in Warsaw in their three-year-old year to pursue a career on the turf.
		The events are managed by Animex, the animal export agency of the Polish government and take place at Janow Podlaski Stud Farm, which is in the eastern part of the country over the border of the former Soviet Union.
	www.horse-previews.com /495articles/polish.html (414 words)

	Poland Travel Ministry
		The Polish trails run across the most beautiful areas of the country, with exciting wildlife, excellent views and places of historic value to be found, in, among others, all the twenty-three national parks a wealth of experiences and sensations is fully guaranteed.
		No doubt, Polish rivers and lakes are still abundant in superb specimen of fish.
		It is in the Polish Angling Association and its branches where the information on the opportunities, conditions and rules of angling in Polish waters as well as on angling competitions and contest can be easily found.
	www.polandtravelministry.com /polish/activ.php (2008 words)

	NATO CCMS: Pilot Studies, P005 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The changes in determinant concentrations along the course of the river constituted the basis for charting a hydro-chemical profile which classified water according to the standards specified in the ordinance of the Council of Ministers of November 5th, 1991.
		To compare the river water quality from the years 1978 - 1983 and 1990 - 1992 we chose those rivers (or their stretches) in which the same scope of obligatory parameter markings was collected.
		Over the length of 5,176.6 km of rivers in the Vistula river-basin, the volume of water of the 1st and 2nd class increased by 27.8% while the amount of water of the 3rd class and of heavily polluted water decreased markedly.
	www.nato.int /ccms/pilot-studies/pilot021/phase1/950507a/ap-poland.htm (7998 words)

	GUSTAF II ADOLF
		The goal was to make the baltic to a sea surrounded by swedish territory and thus put all the trade on the rivers leading to the baltic under swedish taxation.
		Pillau was situated at the mouth of two polish rivers and thus strategically very important.
		In july the king got in a melee with polish hussars while reconoittering and a polish hussar swinged for his head.
	members.tripod.com /Strv102r/gustaf_ii_adolf5.htm (1043 words)

	Polish History - Part 8
		Despite stout Polish resistance (commanders being Prince Jozef Poniatowski and Tadeusz Kosciuszko) the war of 1792 ended in defeat, abolishment of the Constitution of May 3rd and the second partition was made by Russia and Prussia.
		During the third partition (1795) Prussia seized Mazovia with Warsaw, as well as the lands all the way to the Niemen River; Austria took the lands between the Pilica, Wisla [Vistula] and Bug Rivers; while Russia took the territory between the Bug and Niemen Rivers.
		The Polish state was destroyed at a time when internal reforms and the state of education and economy were providing solid foundations for its existence and development.
	www.poloniatoday.com /history8.htm (1139 words)

	The Polish Army in France, Haller Army, Blue Army - Battles in France
		To honor their contribution to the fighting the Polish forces were included in the victory parade in Paris.
		It was the only Polish force up to WWI standards in regards to training and equipment, and they were needed in Poland.
		Polish troops would try to entrap small groups of Soviet troops as well as raid garrisons for food, ammunition and to spread panic amongst the enemy.
	www.hallersarmy.com /FranceBattles.php (1114 words)

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