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The Baltic sea urban areas seen from space. Spit of Vasilyevsky Island, in Saint Petersburg, Russia House of the Blackheads (Riga), Latvia Klaipėda, Lithuania Darłowo Riddarholmen in Stockholm, Sweden Ystad, Sweden Szczecin, Poland The medieval Turku Castle, Turku, Finland Lighthouse in Kołobrzeg, Poland Neptune fountain in Gdańsk, Poland Eldena Abbey, Greifswald, Germany Ruin of St. Peter ...
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
Poland and the Russian Federation have an agreement whereby residents of Kaliningrad and the Polish cities of Olsztyn, Elbląg and Gdańsk may obtain "small border traffic" cards permitting repeated travel between the two countries, crossing the Polish–Russian border. As of July 2013, Poland had issued 100,000 of the cards. [104]
This is a list of major cities and towns which belonged to the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918. Between those dates, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria consisted mostly of the territories gained by the Habsburg Empire in the First Partition of Poland in 1772.
The border road near Nowa Karczma, Nowy Dwór Gdański County, July 2020. The modern Poland–Russia border is a nearly straight-line division between the Republic of Poland and the Russian Federation exclave Kaliningrad Oblast, a region not connected to the Russian mainland. It is 232 kilometres (144 mi) long.
Suwałki is often called the "Polish pole of cold" (polski biegun zimna) because it has the lowest average temperature of the major cities in Poland, excepting mountainous areas [18] (the actual "pole of cold" is located about 25 km (16 mi) north of the city, in the village of Wiżajny). [19] [20]
Pomeranian Voivodeship (Poland) Mehlsack: Braunsberg: Pieniężno : Warmia-Masuria ... List of renamed cities and towns in Russia; List of renamed cities in Lithuania
In 1815, the Suwałki Region became part of Congress Poland, a state which was tied by personal union to Russia and absorbed by the Russian Empire in the aftermath of the 1830 November Uprising. The Suwałki Governorate , in a Russian census conducted during the 1880s, was about 58% Lithuanian. [ 12 ]