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Warsaw, [a] officially the Capital City of Warsaw, [8] [b] is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in ...
1831 map of Warsaw with Lubomirski Ramparts marked in red. Growth of railways turned Warsaw into an important railways hub, as lines were opened to Vienna (1848), Saint Petersburg (1862), Bydgoszcz (1862), Terespol (1867), Kovel (1873), Mlava (1877), Kalisz (1902), along with several shorter lines. In 1875 and 1908, two railway bridges were built.
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 ...
In the early 1910s, Warsaw Old Town was the home of the prominent Yiddish writer Alter Kacyzne, who later depicted life there in his 1929 novel "שטאַרקע און שוואַכע" (Shtarke un Shvache, "The Strong and the Weak"). As depicted in the novel, the Old Town at that time was a slum neighborhood, with poor families—some Jewish ...
The Warsaw metropolitan area (known in Polish as: aglomeracja warszawska or Miejski Obszar Funkcjonalny Warszawy) is the metropolitan area of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The metropolitan area covers ten counties in the Masovian Voivodeship , with an area of 6,100 km 2 (2,400 sq mi) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and a population of around 3.5 million in 2022 ...
Warsaw Old Town Market Place, Barrs Side, photograph of 1945 [1] Warsaw's Old Town Market Place (Polish: Rynek Starego Miasta, pronounced [ˈrɘ.nɛk staˈrɛ.ɡɔ ˈmjas.ta]) is the center and oldest part of the Old Town of Warsaw, Poland. Immediately after the Warsaw Uprising, it was systematically blown up by the German Army. [2]
Gothic architecture is represented in the majestic churches but also at the burgher houses and fortifications.The most significant buildings are St. John's Cathedral (14th century), the temple is a typical example of the so-called Masovian gothic style, St. Mary's Church (1411), a town house of Burbach family (14th century), [1] Gunpowder Tower (after 1379) and the Royal Castle Curia Maior ...
Śródmieście (pronounced [ɕrudˈmjɛɕt͡ɕɛ]), also anglicised as Downtown, is the central district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. It encompasses the Old Town , the city's historic core, and is the centre of cultural, commercial and political life of the capital.