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  Poznan Voivodship biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Poznan Voivodship (2) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1945-1975, superseded by the voivodships of Poznan (1), Kalisz, Konin, Pila and Leszno.
Poznan Voivodship (3) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1921-1939, created after WWI from the Prussian-German province of Poznan.
Poznan Voivodship (4) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772.
www.biography.ms /Poznan_voivodship.html   (134 words)

  
 Political & administrative status
The Polish part of the former Province became the new voivodship of Poznan (although the North-Eastern districts of Bydgoszcz, Mogilno, Strzelno, Inowroclaw, Wyrzysk, Szubin and Znin were later incorporated into the voivodship of Polish Pomerania with the capital seat in Torun/Thorn).
In the voivodship of Poznan the district borders were changed in 1932 (the number of districts was decreased).
In 1938 the Eastern part of historical Greater Poland was also included into the voivodship of Poznan.
www.polishroots.org /genpoland/distr.htm   (510 words)

  
 Gniezno, Poland Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Poznan Voivodship.
It is here that the Gniezno Congress (Meeting at the tomb of Saint Adalbert) took place in the year 1000 AD, during which Boleslaus I the Brave (Boleslaw Chrobry), the first king of Poland, received Otto III, the Emperor of Germany.
After the partitions of Poland the see was often combined with others,first with Poznan and then with Warsaw.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/g/gn/gniezno__poland.html   (230 words)

  
 Poznan Voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Poznań; Voivodship 1945-1975 (Polish: województwo poznańskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1945-1975, superseded by the voivodships of Poznan (1), Kalisz, Konin, Pila and Leszno.
Map as of 1938 Poznań; Voivodship 1921-1939 (Polish: Województwo Poznańskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1921-1939, created after WWI from the Prussian-German province of Poznan.
Poznań; Voivodship 14th c.-1793 (Latin: Palatinatus Posnaniensis), Polish: Województwo Poznańskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795.
poznan-voivodship.kiwiki.homeip.net   (373 words)

  
 Historical Maps of the Prussian Province of Posen - Poznan: Map guide (text)
The main part of the Prussian Province of Posen was handed to Poland and became the Voivodship of Poznan.
Since 1940, the Voivodship of Poznan was part of the Reichsgau Wartheland (Imperial District Warthe River Area, capital Posen), the Voivodship of Polish Pomerania part of the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.
In 1975, the administrative map of Poland was again redrawn and the area of the 19th century Province of Posen became part of eight new voivodships.
www.tr62.de /maps/po-text.html   (1905 words)

  
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After the war a significant portion of the regained lands were added to Wielkopolska and for several years it was the largest region in the country.
In 1975, as a result of territorial reform, Wielkopolska was divided into 5 smaller voivodships (Kalisz, Konin, Leszno, Piła, Poznań).
The present boundaries of the Wielkopolska voivodship have been designated by the 1999 territorial division of Poland.
www.en.poznan.uw.gov.pl /439-44896d830a6f4.htm   (544 words)

  
 Voivodships of Poland - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
The three smallest voivodships -- Warsaw, Cracow and Lodz -- had the special status of municipal voivodship; the city president (mayor) was also provincial governor.
Newly acquired territories in the west and north were organised into the voivodships of Szczecin, Wrocław, Olsztyn and partially joined to Gdańsk, Katowice and Poznań; voivodships.
In 1950 new voivodships were created: Koszalin - previously part of Szczecin, Opole - previously part of Katowice, and Zielona Góra - previously part of Poznań;, Wrocław and Szczecin voivodships.
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 Pinkas Hakehillot Polin: History of the Jews in the Districts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As already mentioned, in addition to the Poznan region, the present volume includes also the Jewish communities of Pomerania (district of Bydgoszcz), which belonged in the 12th century to Mazovian and Pomeranian princes and was conquered in 1303 by the Teutonic Order.
In the districts of Poznan and Pomerania, as in the remaining regions of the former Grand Duchy of Warsaw, Jews lacked political rights and their civil rights continued to be restricted into the early 19th century.
For centuries Poznan kept her status as a major center of Torah studies (especially when the region was a part of Great Poland).
www.jewishgen.org /yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol6_00147.html   (4780 words)

  
 Pomeranian Voivodship biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Pomeranian Voivodship (in Polish województwo pomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in northern Poland within the historic region of Eastern Pomerania.
Along the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship it spreads along the Baltic coast (on the east).
In 1938-39 voivodship extended to the south at the expense Poznan Voivodship and Warsaw Voivodship, and called Great Pomerania afterwards.
pomeranian-voivodship.biography.ms   (305 words)

  
 Poznan
From the time of the Revolutions in the mid 1800s, it was an official Prussian province and became part of the German Empire after the unification of German states in 1871.
The Poznan riots of 1956 played a significant role in liberalising the post war communist regime [1].
Poznan Department (Polish: Departament PoznaЕ„ski): a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806-1815.
www.transporteon.com /Destinations-P/Poznan.php   (1950 words)

  
 Poznan - Gurupedia
Poznan was in years 1815-1919 the capital of the Grand Duchy of Poznan in personal union with the Kingdom of Prussia, but it was not part of Germany.
In year 1871 it was unilateraly annexed by the newly created German Empire, despite the protests of the Polish parliamentarians.
Poznan was also occupied by the Nazi Germany during
www.gurupedia.com /p/po/poznan.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Poznan Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
According to the Versailles peace treaty, signed on 28 VI 1919, most of Posen province was ceded to Poland, and organized into Poznań; voivodship.
German inhabitants of the region and city were given an option to stay or leave but most of them left to Germany, and those who stayed made some 10% of the city population.
1957-1975 City of Poznań; is excluded from Poznań; Voivodship and constituted as a separate administratice unit with voivodship rights.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/p/po/poznan.html   (2105 words)

  
 Gniezno
Gniezno is a town in central Poland, some 50 km east of Poznan, inhabited by about 73,000 people.
The two monarchs celebrated the foundation of the Polish ecclesiastical province (archbishopric) in Gniezno, with newly established bishoprics in Kolobrzeg for Pomerania; Wroclaw for Silesia; Krakow for Little Poland and already existing since 968 bishopric in Poznan for western Greater Poland.
After the partitions of Poland the see was often combined with others, first with Poznan and then with Warsaw.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/g/gn/gniezno.html   (227 words)

  
 OPENKontakt.com - International Business Centre. Import, export, trade, cooperation
Apart from the city of Poznan, well known historical Wielkopolskie towns include: Kalisz - universally held to be Poland's oldest recorded town (Calisia - an ancient trading settlement on the amber route between the Baltic and Adriatic); and Gniezno, the first capital of Poland.
The Wielkopolskie voivodship is one of the leading regions in terms of attractiveness for investors.
Apart from Poznan, the Kornik arboretum, the palace in Rogalin and the museum of miniature buildings in Pobiedziska are important tourist assets.
www.openkontakt.com /gb/wojewodztwa/wielkopolskie.php   (634 words)

  
 A Brief History of the Province of Posen
The Prussian province of Posen (Capital city of Poznan) was established in 1815 and comprised the major part of the Polish region called 'Greater Poland';.
The German population had been slowly colonizing some areas of Greater Poland even under the Polish rule (up to 1793) and their presence in the Western areas was well established.
As the result of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Hitler incorporated the voivodship of Poznan into the Third Reich and renamed it Warthegau (Warta River Region).
www.franklinfamily.info /Ancestry/History_of_Posen.htm   (795 words)

  
 Poznan travel guide
Located by the Warta River it is one of the oldest cities in Poland,making it an important historical center.
Poznan's impressive cathedral is the earliest church in the country, containing the tombs of the first Polish rulers: duke Mieszko I, king Boleslaw the Brave, king Mieszko II, dupe Casimir I the Restorel, duke Przemyslaw I and king Przemyslaw II.
It's is also a place which is popular with Steam Railway enthusiasts as there are regular steam services to Wolsztyn at 72 kms SW of Poznan.
www.world66.com /europe/poland/poznan   (179 words)

  
 Comprehensive information and links about Poland Gniezno
The cities of Gniezno and nearby Poznan were captured, plundered and destroyed in 1038 by the Czech duke Bretislav, what pushed the next Polish rulers to move the Polish capital to Kraków.
Gniezno was hit by heavy fires in 1515, 1613, was destroyed during the Swedish invasion wars of the 17th-18th centuries and by a plague of 1708-1710.
All this caused depopulation and economic decline, but the city was soon revived during the 18th century to become the Gniezno voivodship in 1768.
www.quicknation.com /Poland_Gniezno.htm   (616 words)

  
 Pomeranian Voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
---- Pomeranian voivodship since 1999 (1) Pomeranian voivodship (1999-), administrative and local government unit of the Republic of Poland established on January 1, 1999 out of former voivodships of Gdansk (German:Danzig), Elblag and Slupsk, as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998.
The Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish: Województwo Pomorskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 1454/1466 till the partitions in 1772/1795.
Together with the Chelmno Voivodship and Malbork Voivodship it formed the historical province of Royal Prussia.
pomeranian-voivodship.iqnaut.net   (387 words)

  
 Wiesław KarolakPortfolio
The "Treasure Chest for Future Kids" is organized by the Polish Centre of Art for Children and Young People.
Pupils from schools in Poznań and Poznań voivodship as well as invited artists participate in the project.
The objective of the "Treasure Chest for Future Kids" project is to provide an opportunity for reflecting on the message the young generation would like to hand on to "those, who are going to be born after us".
www.karolak.wshe.lodz.pl /projekty/treasure.htm   (550 words)

  
 OPENKontakt.com - International Business Centre. Import, export, trade, cooperation
The voivodship borders on the German land of Brandenburg.
The area of the voivodship is cut by the international route (road and rail) linking Berlin, Poznan, Warsaw, Minsk and Moscow.
The voivodship is the most forested one in the country.
www.openkontakt.com /gb/wojewodztwa/lubuskie.php   (602 words)

  
 Katyn Forest Massacre
My father, Jan Obst, the son of Kazimierz (Casimir) and Agnieszka (Agnes) family name Wojczewska, was born on December 2, 1889 in Leczyca, Grodzisk county, Poznan voivodship.
Soldiers were hastening to the army bases, fields were being blocked with barbed wire, and guardposts had been set up on the roads.
We parted at the train station in Poznan, on a platform at which trains to Katowice and Opalenica were standing ready to depart.
members.aol.com /obstfam/JanObst.html   (1153 words)

  
 History of Poznań - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the Versailles peace treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, most of Posen province was ceded to Poland, and organized into Poznań Voivodship.
German inhabitants of the region and city (who had not fled in January 1945) were given an option to stay or leave but most of them left to Germany - also because of discrimination, and those who stayed made some 10% of the city population.
1957–1975 City of Poznań is excluded from Poznań Voivodship and constituted as a separate administratice unit with voivodship rights.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Poznan   (2568 words)

  
 The Province of Posen (Poznan)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The parts of historical Silesia which were incorporated into the Poznan voivodship after 1920 are shown in cyan.
During longer historical periods (but NOT between 1815 and 1938) Poznan was the administrative center for the Eastern Greater Poland (with towns such as Kalisz and Konin), too.
Postcards from Poznan (about 1910): the Cathedral, the Castle, and the Royal Square.
www.polishroots.com /genpoland/pos.htm   (631 words)

  
 Fredrick (Friedrich) William (Wilhelm) KUSS
The parts of Silesia which were incorporated into the Poznan voivodship after 1920 are shown in cyan.
The Prussian province of Posen (Poznan) was established in 1815 and comprised the major part of the Polish region called
In the voivodship Poznan the district borders were changed in 1932 when their number was decresed.
www.uslink.net /~insight/PS01/PS01_027.HTM   (4242 words)

  
 The Province of Posen (Poznan)
To help those who are now unable to determine the precise place of origin of their ancestors within the large Province of Poznan, a special project has been recently launched!
Germans living there were forced to leave and Poles from the former Polish territories in the East started to settle there.
Therefore, I have included a short genealogical introduction to this region as well, although it did not belong to the Prussian 'Provinz Posen' but rather to the Kalisz Gubernya of the Kingdom of Poland governed by Russia.
www.polishroots.org /genpoland/pos.htm   (631 words)

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