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  Suwalki - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Suwałki (Lithuanian: Suvalkija) is a town capital of Suwalki County, in north-eastern Poland with 66,200 inhabitants (1995).
It is situated in the Podlasie Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Suwalki Voivodship (1975-1998).
The region was situated on the Grodno-Krolewiec route.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Suwalki   (275 words)

  
 Suwalki Suwałki Voivodship Sudovia Middle Ages arable land Congress of Vienna January 16 Warsaw Sejny Battle of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is the capital of the Powiat of Suwalki and one of the most important centres of commerce in Podlasie Voivodship.
In 1835 tsar Nicholas I declined to move the capital of voivodship to August?nd the fate of Suwałki was sealed.
Two years later the voivodships of Poland were renamed to gubernias and so the town became the capital of August?ubernia.In 1826 an investment plan was passed and new buildings were started by the state authorities.
en.powerwissen.com /zZy8LiL3IPqYMx3iVoM||SL||tg==_Suwalki.html   (2009 words)

  
 Podlasie Voivodship
The Podlasie Voivodship (in Polish województwo podlaskie) is an administrative and local government region or voivodship of north-eastern Poland.
It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Bialystok, Lomza and half of Suwalki voivodships as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998.
The Polish part of the Bialowieza Forest Biosphere Reserve is in Podlasie Voivodship.
www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Podlasie_Voivodship   (152 words)

  
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In this respect, voivodship funds have additionally financed many other activities, for example: reconstruction and repair of river embankments damaged by flood; reconstruction of damaged water-supply systems, and water intakes; repair of intermediate pumping stations.
In Katowice and Legnica voivodships a considerable amount of wastes are generated from the extraction and processing of minerals and power generation.
Other reports generated by Voivodship Environmental Inspectorates include monthly measurement reports which are transmitted as follows: air pollution data sent to the Institute of Environmental Protection; surface water data sent to the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.
www.rec.org /REC/Programs/Telematics/CAPE/qualsrvy/CRpl.doc   (9529 words)

  
 Podlaski Urząd Wojewódzki
Podlasie Voivodship is inhabited by 1.220 mln people, which constitutes around 3.2 % of the total population of Poland.
Around 30% of the area of the voivodship is under legal protection.
The voivodship constitutes a part of the ecologically clean area of ‘the Green Lungs of Poland’..
www.bialystok.uw.gov.pl /PUWMCMS/Tlumaczenia/angielski.htm   (1039 words)

  
 Polands Geography
Average annual air temperatures vary (apart from mountain regions) from 6 degrees C to 8,8 degrees C. The warmest regions include the Silesian Lowland and the western part of the SandomierskaValley, while the coldest region is in the northeast.
The voivodship authorities include the sejmik, the voivodship parliament chosen in self-government elections, and the board of the voivodship.
Foreign co-operation of the voivodship must, however, be conducted within the framework of the foreign policy of the state.
www.polcommerce.com /pol_geo.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Suwalki
Suwalki is located about 30 Km from the Southwestern Lithuanian border, where Lithuania has a district called Suwalk.
Suwalki was founded at the end of the XVIIth century by the Wigry Cameduls.
For about a hundred years Suwalki had a governor and was the capital of the province.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/s/u/Suwalki.html   (235 words)

  
 Bialystok Voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bialystok Voivodship (Polish: województwo bia&322;ostockie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Podlasie Voivodship.
Bialystok Voivodship (2) (Polish: województwo bia&322;ostockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1945-1975, superseded by Bialystok (1), Suwalki Voivodship and Lomza Voivodship.
Bialystok Voivodship (3) (Polish: województwo bia&322;ostockie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1921-1939.
bialystok-voivodship.mindbit.com   (91 words)

  
 OPENKontakt.com - International Business Centre. Import, export, trade, cooperation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Podlaskie voivodship is situated in the north eastern part of Poland, with its main part in Podlaska Lowland (Nizina Podlaska) and the northern part in the Suwalskie Lakeland (Pojezierze Suwalskie).
The voivodship borders with Lithuania on the north and Belarus on the east.
International economic co-operation in the voivodship is supported by the structures of the Niemen Euroregion formed in 1997, comprising the border areas of Poland (Suwalki), Lithuania (Alytus, Marjanpol) and Belarus (Grodno region).
www.openkontakt.com /gb/wojewodztwa/podlaskie.php   (602 words)

  
 Polish Bibliographies for Victims of War
Included are 902 bios of teachers working in the Poznan voivodship, who perished during the war and occupation of 1939-1945.
The material is arranged by voivodship (city of Warsaw, bialostockie, kieleckie, krakowskie, lubelskie, lodzkie, pomorskie, poznanskie, slaskie, warszawskie).
The work focuses on teachers (regardless of ethnic origins) employed in Polish schools of the Bialostockie voivodship (in its borders of May 1975) on the eve of WW II, and who fell victim to the Nazi terror.
www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/Biography/Polishbio/polvictims.htm   (6895 words)

  
 PolishRoots - Geography & Maps
Kalwarya- a provincial town in Suwalki gubernia on the Szeszupa River, lying at 54°23.8'N latitude and 22°54.1' E. The town is 204 miles from Warsaw, 27 to Suwalki, and 11 miles from Marianpol.
It lies on the high-road from Warsaw to Suwalki, Kalwarya, Marianpol to Kowno.
The town sheriff's jurisdiction in the Voivodship and Trocki province is composed of the town of Calvary and its surroundings.
www.polishroots.org /slownik/kalwarya.htm   (759 words)

  
 ENTERPRISE PRIVATIZATION AND EMPLOYEE BUY-OUTS IN POLAND: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS - Employment Sector
As a result, only 10 to 20 per cent of enterprises in the three voivodships visited were judged by the voivods to be potentially viable for leasing.
The Wabrzych voivodship is located in south-west Poland in the region of lower Silesia.
Voivodship officials stated that a more active and constructive participation from trade unions would be welcome.
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/ent/papers/ippred2.htm   (12224 words)

  
 Suwałki, Poland
Soon afterwards the old city hall was demolished and replaced with a new one, and General Józef Zajączek financed the pavement of all the city's streets.
In 1835 tsar Nicholas I declined to move the capital of voivodship to Augustów and the fate of Suwałki was sealed.
Two years later the voivodships of Poland were renamed to gubernias and so the town became the capital of Augustów Gubernia.
www.creekin.net /c6000-n149-suwa-ki-poland.html   (1916 words)

  
 Poland Voivodships
The first four characters of a subregion code indicate which voivodship the subregion belongs to, and the first three characters of a voivodship code indicate which region the voivodship belongs to.
By 1946, Poland was organized into fourteen voivodships and two independent cities on the same administrative level as a voivodship.
In most sources, these three cities are included in the voivodships of the same names.
www.statoids.com /upl.html   (1272 words)

  
 Podlasie Voivodship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Podlasie Voivodship (in Polish województwo podlaskie) is an administrative and local government or voivodship of north-eastern Poland.
It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Bialystok Lomza and half of Suwalki voivodships as a result of Local Reorganization Act of 1998.
The voivodship's name the region's traditional name of Podlasie (Podlasie).
www.freeglossary.com /Podlasie_Voivodship   (68 words)

  
 The Borawski Family: Borawski surname
There are three villages with such names, all of them in the voivodship of Podlaskie, former voivodship of Lomza, near the towns Jedwabne, Radzilow, and Stawiski.
There is also one villiage Borawskie near Suwalki, 11 km northeast form the town Olecko.
There are 3000 people with this name, most of them in the voivodships of Lomza (1058), Suwalki (435), Gdansk (182), Warszawa (154), Bialystok (142), Olsztyn (123), Katowice (120), Ostroleka (75), Szczecin (71), Elbalg (64), Legnica (58)...
www.borawski.net /borawskieletter.htm   (357 words)

  
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The basic geographical unit in Poland is the province (voivodship).
There are 49 voivodships in Poland, which are specified by odd numbers ranging from 01-97 (a convention of the Polish Central Statistical Office).
The 49 voivodships have been aggregated by the Polish statistical office into eight regions (makroregion), which reflect historical, cultural, and geographical distinctions within Polish society.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /issr/da/SSEE/app.f4a.html   (453 words)

  
 Explore - Part 5
The most scenically attractive is the northern part of the Suwalki region, towards Wizajny, with numerous ravines containing winding streams and lake depressions in the valley floors.
From the town of Suwalki, still small despite its voivodship status, the road to the north east takes us to Szypliszki; near here, an international team of archaeologists discovered an ancient township and cemetery of the Prusso-Lithuanian Jacwing people, extinct since the Middle Ages.
Heading east from Suwalki, on the other hand, we arrive at Sejny, close to the Polish-Lithuanian border, the headquarters of the Lithuanian Social and Cultural Association.
www.poloniatoday.com /explore5.htm   (1302 words)

  
 UNIDO - SME Poland - Institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The most problematic regions, such as Suwalki, Walbrzych, Katowice, Olsztyn, Lódz and Rzeszów voivodships suffered from a high level of unemployment and their economies needed structural changes.
SME support programmes tend to pass by the regions of western Poland such as Slupsk, Koszalin, Elblag and Gorzów voivodships and regions of central and eastern Poland (Lomza, Ciechanów).
In area, it is the smallest of the 49 voivodships in Poland but one of the largest in population terms - 1.1 million.
www.unido.org /en/doc/5054   (3195 words)

  
 Dia-pozytyw: DICTIONARY
Jews settled here in the early seventeenth century, after Kock had ceased to be property of the Plock bishops.
During the Second World War, the Germans created a ghetto to which Jews were sent from Lubartow, Radzyn Podlaski, Nowy Dwor, Suwalki and Serock.
In August 1942, some of them were moved to the ghetto in Parczew; most were killed in Treblinka.
www.diapozytyw.pl /en/site/slownik_terminow/kock   (348 words)

  
 Oder-Neisse line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
East Prussia was enlarged by the Suwalki region.
After the invasion was concluded the German had an area of 188 000 km² 21.5 million people while Soviets got 201 km² and 13.5 million population.
In 1941 after German invasion of Soviet Union Bialystok (district of Bialystok) which included the Bielsk Podlaski Grajewo Lomza Sokolka Volkovysk and counties – equivalent to Bialystok Voivodship and was "attached" (not incorporated) to East Prussia.
www.freeglossary.com /Oder-Neisse_Line   (1423 words)

  
 Baltic_Podstawowy
The new administrative structure of Poland was enacted on the first of January, 1999.
the executive body of the voivodships is Marszałek, appointed by the Sejmik.
The legality of these bodies' activities is under the supervisory of the voivodship's governor (wojewoda), appointed by Poland's prime-minister
baltic.mg.gov.pl /Investments/sez/intro   (407 words)

  
 Comprehensive information and links about Poland Olecko
Olecko since 1928) is a town in Masuria, in the Warminsko-Mazurskie voivodship of Poland, near Elk and Suwalki.
It is situated at the mouth of the Lega river into the Great Olecko Lake (i was founded as a town by Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Duke of Duke of Prussia, on January 1, 1560.
In its northern part, a Catholic (formerly Lutheran) church is situated on a tree-covered hill.
www.quicknation.com /Poland_Olecko.htm   (389 words)

  
 Europe/Eurasia - USAID Mission to Poland
Suwalki voivodship served as a testing site for contracting, Leczyca for quality assurance and Nowy Sacz Public Service Zone for strategic planning.
With the new Government of Poland (GoP) health insurance reform from January 1, 1999, 16 regional insurance funds were formed and fully took over the financing function from the cities.
However, all health facilities were be transferred to gminas, poviats and self-governing voivodships, which will perform ownership and management functions.
www.usaid.gov /locations/europe_eurasia/countries/pl/activity3.htm   (1372 words)

  
 Vilnius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Poland also recognized Vilnius and the Vilnius region as a part of Lithuania with the Treaty of Suwalki signed on October 7, 1920 ([1]).
On February 20, 1922, the whole area was made a part of Poland, with Vilnius as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship (Wilno being the name of Vilnius in Polish).
The Lithuanian government fled to a temporary capital Kaunas and stated that Poland had illegally annexed and occupied Vilnius and diplomatic relations between Lithuania and Poland were severed until 1938.
www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=100399   (3017 words)

  
 PGSA - Town Translation Entries (K)
Kcynia, as a district of the Calissian voivodship, was a center of political, administrative and judicial authority for the area, according to the lists from the year 1661 the city encompasses: Kcynia, Miesciska and the villages of Demblowo, Borzatew and Wiela.
The town is 26 versts (approx 26 km) from Sejny and 56 versts from Suwalki.
The village has a wooden church and post office and is on the main road from Sejny to Grodna.
www.pgsa.org /towns/townsK.htm   (9332 words)

  
 PolishRoots - Geography & Maps
NOWOGRODEK PROVINCE (Powiat)- was up to the years 1793-1795 when temporarily by Tsarist Russia, one of three provinces within the Voivodship of Nowogrodek.
In 1842-3 by decree of Tsar Nicholas, the boundaries were again altered and Nowogrodek province was placed within the Minsk gubernia.
Nowogrodek province temperatures are on the same isotherm on a line from Suwalki, Grodno, and Charkowow; isobarically, on the same line as Radom, Niszy Novogorod and Perm; isohimeny: Warsaw-Grodno, Zytomirsk and Stavropol.
www.polishroots.org /slownik/nowogrodek_powiat.htm   (2548 words)

  
 EAPS POLAND FINAL REPORT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Based on the proposed scope of work, EkoTech S.C. was selected in an open bidding process to develop a feasibility study for the project, along with a detailed technical design and financial packaging.
Suwalki Regional Fund management encouraged the Elk municipality to apply for financing for the project.
The project was financed from the following financing sources: 16.4 percent from Elk municipal resources, 30 percent from a subsidized loan from the Regional Environmental Fund in Suwalki, and 46.4 percent from a EcoFund grant.
www.ee-environment.net /docs/polfinal.htm   (10973 words)

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