General information about Poland - history and geography

3. Drawing of the
Battle of Grunwald
against the German
Order of Teutonic
Knights, 15 July 1410.

4. Stanisław II August,
the last King of Poland
acceded to the throne in
1764, reigning until his
abdication on 25
November 1795.
Chief of State Marshal Józef Piłsudski was
the nation's premiere statesman between
1918 until his death on 12 May 1935.

5. Panorama of Warsaw by night

7. Sea of rubble – over eight out of every ten buildings in Warsaw were
destroyed by the end of the Second World War. In leftcentre can be seen
ruins of Old Town Market Square.

8. Historic centre of Warsaw Łazienki Palace, also referred to
as the Palace on the Water
Presidential Palace, the seat of
the Polish president.

15. Baltic beaches of
the Gdańsk Bay are
one of Poland's
most popular
tourist
destinations. The
Polish Baltic coast
is approximately
528 kilometres long
and extends from
Wolin island in the
west to Krynica
Morska in the east.

18. Mikołaj Kopernik
the 16th century Polish
astronomer who
formulated the
heliocentric model of
the solar system that
placed the Sun rather
than the Earth at its
center; first published in
1543.

19. Frédéric Chopin
(/ˈʃoʊpæn), (1810 – 1849), born
Fryderyk Chopin, was a
Polish composer and virtuoso
pianist of the Romantic era,
who wrote primarily for the
solo piano. He gained and has
maintained renown worldwide
as one of the leading musicians
of his era, whose "poetic genius
was based on a professional
technique that was without
equal in his generation."

20. Maria Skłodowska-Curie 7
November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a
Polish and naturalized-French
physicist and chemist who conducted
pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was the first woman to win a
Nobel Prize, the first person and only
woman to win twice, the only person
to win twice in multiple sciences (in
1903 in physics, in 1911 in chemistry),
and was part of the Curie family
legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was
also the first woman to become a
professor at the University of Paris,
and in 1995 became the first woman
to be entombed on her own merits in
the Panthéon in Paris.

21. John Paul II (Karol
Wojtyła, 1920-2005)
was the first Pole and Slav
to become a Roman
Catholic Pope, and is
considered to have been a
great promoter of Poland
around the world. He
held the Pope position
between 1978-2005.

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