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  Wladislaus IV of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the war against Russia in 1632-1634 (the Smolensk War), Wladyslaw succeeded in breaking the siege in September 1633 and then in turn surrounded the Russian army, which was then forced to surrender on March 1, 1634.
Muscovy also agreed to pay 20,000 rubles in exchange for Wladyslaw's renunciation of all claims to the tsardom and return of the royal insignia, which were in the Commonwealth possession since the Dymitriads.
Wladyslaw suffered continuing difficulties caused by the efforts of the Polish Sejm (parliament) to check the King's power and limit his dynastic ambitions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladislaus_IV_of_Poland   (2181 words)

  
 Wladyslaw Gomulka - Encyclopedia.com
(2) Moreover, Wladyslaw Gomulka and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski...
In 1967, the group received permission to play in Warsaw because a granddaughter of then-Communist Party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka was a fan.
Mr Dubcek was critical of the then party leaders of Poland and Hungary, Messrs Wladyslaw Gomulka and Janos Kadar: they ought to have done everything in their power, he said, to prevent the Soviet-led invasion...
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-365819.html   (736 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Duchy-of-Cieszyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Duchy of Cieszyn (Teschen) (Polish Księstwo cieszyńskie) was an independent duchy in the area of Cieszyn Silesia.
Cieszyn Silesia (Polish Śląsk cieszyński, Czech Těšínské Slezsko) is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, between the Vistula and Oder rivers.
Cieszyn Coat of Arms Cieszyn is a town in southern Poland with 37,300 inhabitants (1995), situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Bielsko-Biala Voivodship (1975-1998).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Duchy_of_Cieszyn   (969 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Następcy *Mieszko* - *Piasts* Polski : The Heirs of Mieszko : The Piasts of Poland
Wladyslaw then decided to put her away and marry his Hungarian mistress, Maria Pallfly; Lucja was forcibly held at a monastery, where she died of a broken heart.
Wladyslaw then married Gertrud Guthkeled, a Hungarian lady of distinguished birth (she was the sister of Ipoly, count of Pecs), who was 16 years his junior.
Wladyslaw did not scruple to at once marry his mistress Katarzyna of Danzig, who was pregnant with his child, who turned out to be his third son Stefan in 1080; a second son, Krzeslaw followed in 1081 (although he died young in 1082), and a daughter, Kunegunda, in 1082.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=197419   (8801 words)

  
 Schlesien - Wikipedia
Dabei verblieb das umstrittene Glatzer Land ebenso wie die Teile Golensizenland südlich des Flusses Zinna, das Troppauer Land bei Böhmen.
Das Königreich Polen zerfiel im Rahmen der 1138 eingeführten polnischen Senioratsverfassung in mehrere Herzogtümer, von denen eines das Herzogtum Schlesien unter Wladyslaws II., der damit die schlesischen Linie der Piasten begründete, war.
Ab 1138 setzte im Königreich Polen aber auch ein Bruderkrieg ein, der zur Absetzung Wladyslaws II.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schlesien   (3198 words)

  
 The Verdict of Circuit Court in Lomza in 1949 - Piotr Gontarczyk
Wladyslaw Dabrowski, son of Jozef and Katarzyna, born on 5-25-1810 in Jedwabne, county of Lomza
Wladyslaw Miciura, son of Jan and Jozefa, born on 9-21-1903 in Radom and residing in Jedwabne
Wladyslaw Dabrowski - the defendant pleaded not guilty during the trial, however, in the UB and in The Prosecutor's Office he admitted to guarding Jews for two hours.
www.geocities.com /jedwabne/english/wyrok_sadowy_z_1949.htm   (4461 words)

  
 Wladyslaw Gomulka --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Polish archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and primate of Poland.
July 29, 2001, Cieszyn, Pol.), as the first secretary of the Polish Communist Party for almost a decade (1970–80), sought to modernize Poland's economy and introduce social reforms, but his attempts ultimately led to financial insolvency and political unrest.
The Polish writer Wladyslaw Reymont is remembered especially for his epic novel Chl (The Peasants), a blend of naturalism and realism written almost entirely in rural dialect.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9365819?tocId=9365819   (644 words)

  
 DDG: Wladyslaw Strzeminski 1893 - 1953
The inventory of Wladyslaw Strzeminski's typographic works is repeated here (with some additions) after the catalogue prepared by Jerzy Andrzejewski and Michal Kuna for the publication Druk funkcjonalny.
In the case of not the single ones works marked in the listings with an asterisk, the authorship of Wladyslaw Strzeminski was determined on the basis of their similarity to other works signed with the artist's name or the accounts of the former students of the Public School of Technical Training no. 10 in Lodz.
Note: Wladyslaw Strzeminski was interested in theatre and theatre scenery since he first began his artistic activity.
www.ddg.art.pl /strzeminski/catalogue_IV.html   (2722 words)

  
 Cieszyn
Cieszyn is a town in southern Poland with 37,300 inhabitants (1995).
Upto 1290 Cieszyn belonged to the Duchy of Raciborz
1431-1440 Waclaw I, Boleslaw II, Wladyslaw and Przemko II
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/c/ci/cieszyn.html   (87 words)

  
 Timeline of Polish history - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wladyslaw the Elbow High, caught up with the situation in Little Poland, particularly the conspiracy led by Albert, the Cracow mayor, cannot intervene.
Reign of Wladyslaw Jagiello, beginning of Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland
Zaolzie or Cieszyn Silesia area was re-annexed by Poland from Czechoslovakia in accord with the Munich Agreement
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Timeline_of_Polish_history   (1152 words)

  
 The World at War - Poland Timeline 1918-52
The conclusion of the border wars allowed the Polish leadership to turn its attention to the difficult task of forging a national state.
Allied Council of Ambassadors awards mostly Polish industrial area of western Cieszyn, the district of Orawa with the exception of Jablonka and five-sixths of the disputed district of Spisz to Czechoslovakia.
Wladyslaw Gomulka becomes Secretary General of the Polish Workers Party.
www.worldatwar.net /timeline/poland/18-52.html   (5040 words)

  
 WorldTravelGate.net® - Culture of the city of Katowice,Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Especially valuable is polish paintings' collection from XIX and XX century including pieces of Aleksander Gierymski, Jan Matejko, Piotr Machalowski, Henryk Rodakowski, Stanislaw Wyspianski and Wladyslaw Podkowinski.
For special notice also deserves created by the Museum Polish Scenery Centre which is gathering and exhibiting collections of projects by outstanding polish stage-managers.
In the sculpture resources exhibited are, interalia, pieces of Xawery Dunikowski, Wladyslaw Hasior and others.
www.eurotravelling.net /poland/katowice/katowice_culture.htm   (835 words)

  
 Short History of Poland
Then, in 1320, Wladyslaw I (Lokietek) was coronated; the first ruler of the reunited kingdom.
In 1440 the Magyars offered Wladyslaw III (Wladyslaw Jagiello's son) the crown of Hungary; Poland's attention shifted to the plains of Hungary and the growing Turkish threat.
The Poles liberated Wilno from the Lithuanians in 1919, reoccupied the area around Cieszyn (which had been invaded by the Czechs) and annexed the Western Ukraine when the Ukrainian Republic, which had been supported by Poland, collapsed under attack from Soviet forces.
www.kresy.co.uk /poland_history.html   (5959 words)

  
 The Polish-Russian War and the Fight for Independence, 1918-1921
The dispute flared again when Poland occupied an area around Cieszyn in 1938.
The result was the diverted Red Army force itself became cut off from their supply line, and the remaining Red Army force was decimated.
General Wladyslaw Sikorski commanded a force (including some French tanks) that defended the city of Warsaw.
home.golden.net /~medals/1918-1921war.html   (2603 words)

  
 The History of Poland
Jadwiga married Ladislaus (Wladyslaw) Jagiello, duke of Lithuania, who became king of Poland as Ladislaw II (Wladislaw).
The Poles only loss in the border wars came at the hands of the Czechs who seized the mostly Polish industrial area of Cieszyn.
The conclusion of the border wars allowed the Polish leadership to turn its attention to the difficult task of forging a national state.
www.krykiet.com /polish_history.htm   (1867 words)

  
 - Chapter 19
I was soon riding along the road to Cieszyn on a fine spring day.
Business was not booming in Cieszyn, and many who were willing could not find work.
I was pleased to discover that the bell casters I had come to Cieszyn to see lived directly across from the inn.
www.baen.com /chapters/W200412/0743488636__19.htm   (4319 words)

  
 Edward Gierek, communist ruler, 88
Gierek died Sunday morning at a hospital in the southern city of Cieszyn of a lung infection stemming from his years as a miner, said Andrzej Szarawarski, head of the Democratic Left Alliance in Katowice.
Gierek, who was born in Porabka, near Katowice, first became active in the communist movement as a young miner living in France and Belgium.
He succeeded Wladyslaw Gomulka, who was forced out after security forces opened fire on Polish workers in the Baltic cities of Gdansk and Gdynia, killing scores of them.
www.slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00324.html   (477 words)

  
 Poland
However, subsequently church attendance and income fell sharply, and the abortion law was relaxed again in the mid-1990s.
In the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the great Polish prose writers--including the Nobel Prize winners Henryk Sienkiewicz and Wladyslaw Reymont--were active.
Among the postwar Polish poets are Zbigniew Herbert and the Nobel Prize winners: Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska.
www.nd.edu /~kielbasa/poland.htm   (9198 words)

  
 ewa olszewska-borys
Wladyslaw I Herman                            The crypt of St.Leonard in Wawel- Cracow 
Wladyslaw Laskonogi                           The church of St. Nicholas in Wysocice
Wladyslaw I Lokietek                         The cathedral church in Wawel in Cracow
www.olszewska-borys.artmedal.net /royal_series.html   (816 words)

  
 Ultimate debunking of Gross - prof. Tomasz Strzembosz
Wladyslaw Dabrowski - born in 1890, cobbler, illiterate, married.
The list of persons in hiding (this qualification does not mean that the persons mentioned in the list really remained in hiding, but that they did not live in Lomza province and were not available at the moment.
The list of six includes Józef Sobota, who was later found in a psychiatric hospital and released due to the state of his health.
www.naszawitryna.pl /jedwabne_en_90.html   (6650 words)

  
 During and After WWII
The Soviet Union resented the fact that it was not invited to the Munich Conference, but the only action which it took in favor of the victim was a warning addressed to Poland on the twenty-third of September, that the Polish-Russian nonaggression pact would be denounced if Poland violated the Czechoslovak frontier.
Poland had indeed declared that since all minority territories were to be separated from Czechoslovakia, she would claim the part of the Teschen (Cieszyn, Tesin) region which in spite of its predominantly Polish population had been attributed to Czechoslovakia in 1920.
Raczkiewicz was then in Paris, where he appointed a new government with General Wladyslaw Sikorski as prime minister and minister of war.
victorian.fortunecity.com /wooton/34/halecki/23.htm   (6162 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Poland mourns communist reformer
He succeeded Wladyslaw Gomulka as First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party in 1970, after more than 40 workers were shot dead in food price riots.
He died on Sunday at a hospital in the southern city of Cieszyn of a lung infection stemming from his years as a miner.
He is survived by his wife, Stanislava, and two sons, one of whom, Adam, is running as an SLD candidate in September's general election.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/1464939.stm   (380 words)

  
 Polish National Tourist Office in London
The borderland character of the region is proved by the dozen of fortified castles on the Krakowsko-Czestochowska Upland, poetically known as the Eagles' Nest Route.
There are also relics of 14th century castles of various princes from the Piast dynasty in Raciborz, Cieszyn and Gliwice, and castles in Bielsko-Biala, Toszek and Zywiec, all of which have survived until today.
The wooden churches are a delight to everyone who is sensitive to beauty, with their aesthetic and yet simple shape, with the picturesque surface quality of the walls' construction materials, made of larch, pine or fir wood, together with the shingle roofs that cover particular parts of their structure.
www.poland.dial.pipex.com /whattodo_silesia.htm   (3231 words)

  
 Duchy of Cieszyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Duchy of Cieszyn (Polish Księstwocieszyńskie) was an independent duchy in the area of CieszynSilesia.
At the end of World War I localself-governments were established and divided the region basing on ethnic composition.
1431 - 1440 Waclaw I, Boleslaw II, Wladyslaw and Przemko II Waclaw I and Boleslaw II Boleslaw II Kasimir II WaclawIII Adam the Posthumous
www.therfcc.org /duchy-of-cieszyn-306778.html   (140 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Timeline of Polish history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lesser Poland voivodship since 1999 Little Poland or Lesser Poland (Polish Małopolska, Latin: Polonia Minor) is one of the historical regions of Poland.
Events January 20 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland April 6 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
Casimir the Great Casimir III or the Great (Kazimierz Wielki), (1310-1370), King of Poland, son of king Władyslaw I Łokietek (Wladyslaw the Elbow High), 1305-1333 and Jadwiga of Gniezno and Great Poland.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Timeline-of-Polish-history   (7370 words)

  
 The Mazal Library
Besides the two Czech Jews, four Poles came to join out group during that month: Staszek and Wladek, whose family names I have forgotten, and Wladyslaw Biskup from Cracow and Jan Agrestowski from the commune of Pas in the Warsaw region.
I remember their names well, because I wrote letters to their families in German for them.
On 4th March 1943, my group, including on Wladyslaw Tomiczek of Cieszyn and the four Poles I have already mentioned, was transferred to Birkenau and installed in closed block II of sector Blb.
www.mazal.org /archive/documents/Tauber/Tauber03.htm   (1123 words)

  
 Second Polish Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polish soldiers displaying captured Soviet battle flags after the Battle of Warsaw.
Centers of government that were created in Galicia (formerly Austrian-ruled southern Poland) included a National Council of the Principality of Cieszyn (created on November 19) and a Polish Liquidation Committee (created on October 28).
Soon afterward, conflict broke out in Lviv (Polish Lwów) between forces of the Military Committee of Ukrainians and the Polish "Eagles" of Lwów.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Polish_Republic   (652 words)

  
 Kulturmagazin Areion Online - Polen - Chronik
Wladyslaw Sikorski bildet eine Exilregierung zunächst mit Sitz in Paris, danach in London, von wo aus die polnische Armee gesteuert wird — mit rund 600.000 Mann erreicht sie annähernd die Stärke der britischen und liegt deutlich über der Frankreichs —, die bis 1945 an der Seite der Westmächte an allen Fronten kämpft.
Wladyslaw Sikorski kommt bei einem Flugzeugabsturz ums Leben.
In Polen wird ein „erweitertes Kabinett der nationalen Einheit“ gebildet, das auch von den Westmächten anerkannt wird: Regierungschef wird Eduard Osobka-Morawski.
www.areion.de /polenc.html   (9112 words)

  
 Duchy of Cieszyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Since 1625 it came under Austrian rule (from 1766 a direct one).
In 1653 Duchy of Cieszyn became part of the Habsburg domains as Herzogtum Teschen.
At the end of the First World War local self-governments were established and the duchy was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia.
www.tocatch.info /en/Duchy_of_Cieszyn.htm   (142 words)

  
 Post-War Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He became a Comintern agent in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Austria and was arrested in Poland (1935).
He was a leader in the resistance during the Nazi occupation, becoming president of the Home National Council (KRN) formed by Wladyslaw Gomulka without consulting Moscow.
Cieszyn, 2001), First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party during the rise of Solidarity, went to France with his family in his youth and lived there for eleven years.
www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/PostWarBios.html   (4656 words)

  
 ewa olszewska-borys
Wladyslaw I Herman                            The crypt of St.Leonard in Wawel- Cracow 
Wladyslaw Laskonogi                           The church of St. Nicholas in Wysocice
Wladyslaw I Lokietek                         The cathedral church in Wawel in Cracow
www.artmedal.net /olszewska-borys/royal_series.html   (816 words)

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