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  EU Border Identities Communities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Görlitz and Zgorzelec are two towns on the River Neiße/Nysa, Görlitz on the West bank and thus in the Federal Republic of Germany, Zgorzelec on the East bank and so in Poland.
Zgorzelec lies in the Wojwodship (region) of Lower Silesia, and in the Powiat (county) of Zgorzelec.
Zgorzelec was the site of the signing of the so-called Zgorzelec Agreement, a treaty confirming the state border between Poland and the GDR on 6 July 1950.
www.euborder.soton.ac.uk /commun02b.htm   (1034 words)

  
 treaty port - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about treaty port
As a result of the enforced unequal treaties, treaty ports were established mainly in China, from 1842; and Japan, from 1854 to 1899.
The Nan-Shan was on her way from the southward to the treaty port of Fu-chau, with some cargo in her lower holds, and two hundred Chinese coolies returning to their village homes in the province of Fo-kien, after a few years of work in various tropical colonies.
The treaty ports of the world were never entered by her visiting battleships.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /treaty+port   (267 words)

  
 Silesia Encyclopedia Articles @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1537 the Piast duke Frederick II of Brzeg (Brieg) concluded a treaty with Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, whereby the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg would inherit the duchy upon the extinction of the Piasts, but the treaty was rejected by Ferdinand.
The devoutly Catholic Zygmunt sympathized with the Habsburgs, and while there was a matter of a defensive treaty, he had to decline Emperor Matthias's request (to be allowed to hire Commonwealth troops) because the Commonwealth was tired of wars with Sweden and wars with Muscovy and its relations with the Ottoman Empire were worsening.
The planned plebiscite was not organised and the division of Cieszyn Silesia was decided on 28 July 1920 by the Ambassadors' Council at the Treaty of Versailles, which instituted the present-day border between Poland and the Czech Republic.
www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Silesia   (2946 words)

  
 Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen
Such a resettlement treaty was not concluded until 10.1.1941 with the Soviet Union, which meant that the Lithuanian Germans had to bear three-quarters of a year under Soviet rule.
The Treaty of Versailles resulted in the eastern part of West Prussia which was not to be ceded to Poland passing to East Prussia as a government district (capital: Marienwerder) in 1919.
The Sudeten Germans were assigned, against their express will, to Czechoslovakia by the Treaty of St. Germain of 10.9.1919 and were regarded by the Czech state as a "minority", although 90 percent of them were living in territories in which they themselves represented 90 percent or more of the population.
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 All articles - Dic.blogopt.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation Between Spain and the United States
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan
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 Oder-Neisse line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It was anticipated that a final peace treaty would follow shortly and either confirm this border or determine whatever alterations might be agreed upon.
In 1952, recognition of the Oder-Neisse line as a permanent boundary was one of Stalin's conditions for the Soviet Union to agree to a reunified Germany.
In 1970 West Germany signed treaties with the Soviet Union (Treaty of Moscow) and Poland (Treaty of Warsaw) recognizing the Oder-Neisse line as a factual border of Poland.
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In 1997 the provisions of the Schengen Protocol were incorporated into the Treaty of Amsterdam and when subsequently cooperation was extended to cover a total of 13 EU countries — the exceptions being Ireland and the United Kingdom - plus three EEA countries: Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein, the technical possibilities of SIS reached their limit.
The citizen was informed that on the basis of Annex XII of the Accession Treaty she should be allowed to enjoy free access to the Belgian labour market, since before the 1 of May she had been admitted to the labour market of that Member State for and uninterrupted period of 12 months.
The citizen was informed that on the basis of Article 43 of the Treaty establishing the EC he has the right to set up a business and establish himself permanently in another country for the purpose of any industrial or commercial activity.
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 DC Estonian
Cities in the heart of Europe that have been divided by the tragic events of the 20th century are waiting impatiently for the eastwards expansion of the European Union on May 1 to tear down their barriers and customs checkpoints and get a new lease on life.
Miroslaw Fiedorowicz, his Polish counterpart at Zgorzelec, agrees: "If we do not take the chance offered by the EU enlargement, if we do not work together, we will disappear down a hole in the middle of Europe," he said.
Goerlitz which today has a population of 63,000 saw a mass exodus after the reunification of Germany in 1990 and some 10,000 apartments are standing empty, most of them beautiful 16th century buildings that have been restored in the hope that new inhabitants would soon move in.
www.dcestonian.com /estonews/articles/04/towns041404.htm   (691 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1537 the Piast duke Frederick II of Brzeg(Brieg) concluded a treaty with Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, whereby the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg would inherit the duchy upon the extinction of the Piasts, but the treaty was rejected by Ferdinand.
Devoutly Catholic Zygmunt, enemy of the protestants sympathized with Habsburgs and there was matter that defensive treaty but he had to decline Emperor Matthias request (to be allowed to hire Commonwealth troops) because Commonwealth was tired of wars with Sweden and wars with Muscovy and its relations with Ottoman Empire were worsening.
In the Treaty of Versailles, it was decided that the population of the German Upper Silesia should hold a plebiscite in order to determine the future of the province, with the exception of a 333 km
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 Warsaw Voice - This Land is MY Land   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
There is the recurrent question of divergent interpretations of the treaty concluded years ago between Poland and the Soviet Union, concerning shipping on the divided Vistula Bay.
Germany refused to accept the treaty of Zgorzelec, of June 1950, signed for Germany by the East German prime minister, Otto Grotewohl.
Lithuania's dispute of borders was a matter of principle, motivated by the country's refusal to recognize in any form the five-decade-long Soviet supremacy over its territory.
www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1257   (1012 words)

  
 Oder-Neisse line - Background - German Archive: The Oder-Neisse line (German: Oder-Neiße-Grenze) is the border between ...
The governments of East Germany and Poland signed the Treaty of Zgorzelec in 1950, recognizing the Oder-Neisse line, officially designated the 'Border of Peace and Friendship'.
In 1952, recognition of the Oder-Neisse line as a permanent boundary was one of Stalin's conditions for the Soviet Union to agree to a reunified Germany.
In Poland Germans of the minority in Opole (Oppeln) still complain, that they are negatively discriminated, though economically they are secured because of their German passes, which have allowed them for the last ten years to work freely in the European Union's Western European member states.
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 The Oder-Neisse Border: Where German-Polish Prejudices Meet. Travel to the past and present frontier(s) between Germany ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Formal treaties recognizing the border and calling for friendship and cooperation between Poland and reunified Germany were signed in November 1990 and ratified by the Bundestag and Poland's parliament, a year later.
All of Silesia at first remains German, but a Versailles Treaty clause requires a plebiscite to determine if Upper Silesia is to remain German or pass to Poland.
November 1990--Reunited Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl signs treaty recognizing Oder-Neisse line as the German-Polish border and a treaty of friendship and cooperation, ratified in 1991.
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 Polish Consulate...
Borowski said the Nice Treaty signified a specific signal: "The EU is an association of equal countries in solidarity and no matter if you are rich or poor, big or small-we are creating a system of decision-making in which the hegemony of the largest will not be possible."
Residents of Zgorzelec and Görlitz, situated on two sides of the Polish-German border, celebrated with a common breakfast May 1.
Zgorzelec Mayor Ireneusz Anyszkiewicz said that, for Zgorzelec and Görlitz residents, "the borders are long gone." "We cooperate with one another in each and every field.
www.polish.motime.com /archive/2004-05   (11708 words)

  
 noborder.org | without papers in europe | Poland
In 1993, the Polish government signed a treaty with the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.
The rule that transportation companies have to pay for repatriation or deportation, a regulation in the Schengen treaty, is also new.
Furthermore, there are the Caritas Poland offices in several cities, among them Bialystok and Lublin (near the eastern border of Poland) and Zgorzelec (at the German-Polish border).
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 Poland
This would represent a significant change from the current system, in which refugees could wait up to 3 months for the first answer and could then appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.
During the year, the Government cooperated with the UNHCR and the Polish NGO Caritas in a program monitoring portions of the country's eastern and western borders from offices in Bialystok and Zgorzelec.
The Concordat, a treaty regulating relations between the Government and the Vatican, took effect in April 1998.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/879.htm   (13642 words)

  
 The Definitive Guide to Polonization XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When the territories of Western Belarus, Western Ukraine and the Wilno region were incorporated by Poland after the Treaty of Riga, Poland rejected its international obligations to grant the autonomy to eastern Galicia
Silesia) were denied the use of their language in public by the Communist regime and they had to adopt the Polish language and citizenship to evade discrimination, expropriation and insult.
Their situation improved in 1950 with the Treaty of Zgorzelec between Poland and the GDR.
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 Border Crossings: Germany
The line was operated until recently as a tourist railway, but this has now ceased.
Horka DB - Wegliniec PKP: [D] Freight only at present, but it is believed that when the proposed electrification works are completed, a passenger service could be introduced.
Görlitz DB - Zgorzelec PKP (- Wrocław): [D] Through trains to and from Wrocław are worked by PKP to Görlitz; supplemented from 2005 by DB DMUs working a very limited service to Zgorzelec.
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 AMPP: Marx, Lenin, and Stalin
In Görlitz, for example, a city on the Polish border, people normally do their shopping in Zgorzelec, on the Polish side of the Neisse, because things cost almost half as much there.
The nuclear crisis erupted in October 2002 when U.S. officials accused North Korea of running a secrete uranium-enrichment program in violation of international treaties, and it and its allies cut off free fuel oil shipments for the impoverished country.
North Korea retaliated by quitting the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in early 2003 and restarting its plutonium-based nuclear weapons program.
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 H. Duthel: European Union Europe des Nations The Democratic State. A Critique of Bourgeois Sovereignty.'I believe that ...
Direkt an der Nei�e gelegen ist G�rlitz durch Br�cken mit ihrer polnischen Zwillingsstadt Zgorzelec verbunden.
In a resolution on Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency demanded that Iran halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, a part of the nuclear fuel cycle that can be directed to both energy and weapons purposes.
Nuclear fuel cycle work including enrichment is permitted under the Non-Proliferation Treaty for peaceful purposes, but the IAEA wants Iran to stop pending completion of a more than 18-month-long investigation.
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 Kamery w Polsce! Webcams in Poland!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
And in 1493, the Treaty of Pyrzyce was signed by Boguslaw X. http://www.pyrzyce.boo.pl
If you click on the photo on the left side of this page, under the word ‘webcam’, you will see a view of the ski slopes in Zieleńiec.
If you click on the word “kamera” at the top of this website, you’ll see a view inside a company called Arrakis located in Zgorzelec.
www.geocities.com /polsku/WebcamsPoland.htm   (5999 words)

  
 General Information on Poland - Polish Embassy in Dublin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
, three of the strongest European powers, signed a treaty to partition the country.
Tourists travelling by car may enter Poland through designated border crossings.
Main border crossings open 24h/day - German border: Gubin, Kolbaskowo, Sieniawka, Slubice, Swiecko, Zgorzelec.
www.polishembassy.ie /generalinfo.htm   (3509 words)

  
 Titles of European hereditary rulers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1798, by the Treaty of Campo Formio, Emperor Francis II ceded the Southern Low Countries and Luxembourg to France.
After the fall of Napoleon I in 1814, Luxembourg was restored as a separate entity.
Görlitz -> Zhorjelc; Zgorzelec (Lower Lusatia / Oberlausitz, Germany);
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 Crete Book
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