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Wrocław is a major transport hub, situated at the crossroad of many routes linking Western and Central Europe with the rest of Poland. [145] The city is skirted on the south by the A4 highway , which is part of the European route E40 , extending from the Polish-German to the Polish-Ukrainian border across southern Poland.
The Old Town in Wrocław (Polish: Stare Miasto we Wrocławiu) is the oldest part of the left-bank Wrocław, originating from the thirteenth century.It is surrounded by the City Moat, a remnant of the complex system of fortifications, largely based on natural and artificial sections of the Oder River and the Oława River flowing into it.
Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and Upper Silesia in ...
Lower Silesia is located mostly in the basin of the middle Oder River with its historic capital in Wrocław.. The southern border of Lower Silesia is mapped by the mountain ridge of the Western and Central Sudetes, which since the High Middle Ages formed the border between Polish Silesia and the historic Bohemian region of the present-day Czech Republic.
The Cathedral Island (Polish: Ostrów Tumski, [ˈɔstruf ˈtumski], German: Dominsel, [ˈdoːmɪnzəl]) is the oldest part of the city of Wrocław in south-western Poland. It was formerly an island (Old Polish: ostrów) between branches of the Oder River. Today it is the city's popular tourist destination.
NYSA, Poland/OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (Reuters) -Poland's historic city of Wroclaw readied buses for possible evacuations on Tuesday and the zoo called for volunteers to protect animals from rising ...
In 1038 Bohemia captured the city and owned her until 1054 when Poland regained control. The Gesta principum Polonorum chronicle from the 1110s named Wrocław one of the three political centers of the Polish Kingdom alongside Kraków and Sandomierz. In 1138 it became the capital of the Piast-ruled Duchy of Silesia, which slowly detached from ...
Many local Polish students joined the Greater Poland uprising against Prussia. [20] 5 May: Convention of Polish activists from the Prussian and Austrian partitions of Poland. [21] 9 May–8 July: Stay of Polish national poet Juliusz Słowacki, during which he met his mother for the first time in nearly 20 years and the last time. [22]