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This category lists the five former main administrative divisions of the city of Poznań, Poland. For smaller subdivisions, see Category:Neighbourhoods of Poznań . Pages in category "Districts of Poznań"
Poznań (Polish: [ˈpɔznaj̃] or ⓘ) [a] is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. [7] The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (Jarmark Świętojański), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect.
Poznań was the seat the German Central Bureau for Resettlement (UWZ, Umwandererzentralstelle), a special German institution established in November 1939 to coordinate the expulsion of Poles from occupied Polish territories. [25] Poznań's Jewish population, which had numbered 2,000 in 1939, [26] was largely murdered in the Holocaust.
The final Soviet assault on the citadel started on 18 February. Before the Red Army troops lay a deep ditch matched by a steep rampart on the far side. In an odd echo of medieval warfare, the Soviet forces used ladders to cross this obstacle but found themselves swept by fire from the citadel's redoubts. These redoubts took the better part of ...
Reichsmarine rally in German-occupied Poznań in April 1941. 1941 The German labor office in Poznań demanded that children as young as 12 register for work, but it is known that even ten-year-old children were forced to work. [48] Spring: Komitet Niesienia Pomocy joined the Union of Armed Struggle. [33]
Poznań Old Town is the centermost neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland, covering the area of the once walled medieval city of Poznań. It is called Stare Miasto in Polish, although that name may also refer to the wider administrative district of Stare Miasto, which extends to most of the city centre and northern parts of the city.
This category lists local subdivisions (osiedles and similar) of the city of Poznań, Poland. For the five larger former administrative divisions ( dzielnicas ), see Category:Districts of Poznań . Pages in category "Neighbourhoods of Poznań"
The pre-1990 division of Poznań into dzielnicas. These are still retained for some administrative purposes. A map showing the administrative division of Poznań County (powiat poznański), which covers the areas surrounding Poznań. The county seat and offices are in the city of Poznań, but the county does not include the city.