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The significant element of the relief, in this part of Warsaw, is the edge of moraine plateau called Warsaw Escarpment. It is 20 to 25 m (66 to 82 ft) high in the Old Town and Central district and about 10 m (33 ft) in the north and south of Warsaw. It goes through the city and plays an important role as a landmark.
The next important investments from the Gierek-times are: the Warszawa Centralna station (1975, now the biggest station in Warsaw) and the broad, dual carriageway Warsaw-Katowice, which even now is called "Gierkówka" (in a choice of the destination point, pretty significant was the fact that Gierek himself was born in Silesia, in Sosnowiec ...
The term "Warsaw Pact" commonly refers to both the treaty itself and its resultant military alliance, the Warsaw Treaty Organization [5] (WTO). [ f ] The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), the economic organization for the Eastern Bloc states.
Warsaw Old Town, [a] also known as Old Town, [b] and historically known as Old Warsaw, [c] [1] is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Śródmieście. [2]
The Duchy of Warsaw was created by French Emperor Napoleon I, as part of the Treaty of Tilsit with Prussia. Its creation met the support of both local republicans in partitioned Poland, and the large Polish diaspora in France, who openly supported Napoleon as the only man capable of restoring Polish sovereignty after the Partitions of Poland of ...
Warsaw Convention, about international carriage by air; Warsaw Pact, between the Soviet Union and 7 other Eastern Bloc socialist republics; Warshaw's, a defunct supermarket in Montreal's historic Jewish district; Hyporthodus nigritus, a species of fish often referred to as the Warsaw grouper
A small town called Kemmerer is the coldest city in Wyoming, with an average annual low of just 22 degrees. That's still warm compared with the coldest temperature recorded in the state, though ...
PKM Warsaw wins its first Team Speedway Polish Championship. Spójnia Warsaw wins its first Polish women's basketball championship. Warsaw in 1950. 1949 - Six-Year Plan for the Reconstruction of Warsaw created. [39] 1950 - Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature established. 1951 - Białołęka, Okęcie, Wilanów, and Włochy become part of city ...