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Pages in category "Military history of Toruń" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Crane Tower; P.
Toruń (marked in red as Thorn) near the 19th-century German/Prussian and Russian border in partitioned Poland (also marked in red). Toruń was an important city, which following the Partitions of Poland was located just north and west of the border between Prussia and Russia, which runs from southwest to northeast, in the north along the Drwęca tributary of the Vistula River which passes ...
The KS Apator Toruń speedway team won the league championship while based at the stadium in 1986 and 1990. Plans for a new speedway stadium arose in 2008 and the last league match held at the KS Apator Stadium was a Team Speedway Polish Championship match against Unia Leszno during the 2008 season , played on 19 October.
Military bases of Poland in Afghanistan (3 P) Attacks on military installations in Poland (1 C, 14 P) F. Fortifications in Poland (5 C, 4 P) Forts in Poland (3 C, 15 ...
Stalag XX-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in Toruń in German-occupied Poland. It was not a single camp and contained as many as 20,000 men at its peak. The main camp was located in seven forts of the 19th-century Toruń Fortress, located in the southern part of the city. [1]
Silesian Military District, in Wrocław (Readiness level B, would have formed 2nd Combined-Arms Army with 89,500 soldiers in wartime) 2nd Warsaw Mechanized Division , in Nysa 15th Tank Regiment, in Gliwice
The district command headquarters was at Torun (1945–1946), Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Koszalin, and then at Bydgoszcz. From 1947 to 2007 1 Gen. J. Dwernicki Street, from 2007 to December 2011 105th Szubinska Street. Since 1999, the POW is one of the two military districts in Poland. After 92 years, in accordance with the decision of the Minister of ...
Toruń is situated at a major road junction, one of the most important in Poland. The A1 highway reaches Toruń, and a southern beltway surrounds the city. Besides these, the European route E75 and a number of domestic roads (numbered 10, 15, and 80) run through the city.