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A voivodeship (/ ˈ v ɔɪ v oʊ d ʃ ɪ p / VOY-vohd-ship; Polish: województwo [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ] ⓘ; plural: województwa [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfa]) is the highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries.
Until 1989, 3 May was a common day for anti-government and anti-communist protests. [7] 3 May was restored as an official Polish holiday in April 1990, after the fall of communism. [9] In 2007, 3 May was also declared a Lithuanian national holiday; the first joint celebration by the Polish Sejm and the Lithuanian Seimas took place on 3 May 2007 ...
Sorbs (Upper Sorbian: Serbja; Lower Sorbian: Serby; German: Sorben pronounced [ˈzɔʁbn̩] ⓘ; Czech: Lužičtí Srbové; Polish: Serbołużyczanie; also known as Lusatians, Lusatian Serbs [5] and Wends) are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg.
"The Master"), released in some English-speaking countries as The Champion of Auschwitz, is a 2020 Polish sports drama film written and directed by Maciej Barczewski. It stars Piotr Głowacki as Tadeusz Pietrzykowski , a real-life Polish boxer who became famous for his nearly undefeated strings of victories in the Nazi concentration camps .
Independence Day (Polish: Narodowe Święto Niepodległości) is a national day in Poland celebrated on 11 November to commemorate the anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty as the Second Polish Republic in 1918 from the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires.
The city area measures 517 km 2 (200 sq mi) and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers 6,100 km 2 (2,355 sq mi). [9] Warsaw is classified as an alpha global city , [ 10 ] a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government.
Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140 ha), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London.A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.