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Fort Srebrna Góra, the Glossary

Fort Srebrna Góra or Srebrnogórska Fortress (Twierdza Srebrna Góra, lit. Silver Mountain Fort) is a former military fort, now a monument and a museum, located in the village of Srebrna Góra (lit. Silver Mountain), Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.^[1]

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Forts in Poland
Infrastructure completed in 1777
Objects of cultural heritage in Poland
Prussian forts
Tourist attractions in Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Ząbkowice Śląskie County

Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Bedrock

In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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Culture park

Culture park (park kulturowy), in Poland, is a designation in the heritage register for cultural landscape-level objects of cultural heritage in Poland. Fort Srebrna Góra and culture park are objects of cultural heritage in Poland.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.

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Garrison

A garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is any body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it.

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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II

Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945).

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Historical reenactment

Historical reenactments (or re-enactment) is an educational or entertainment activity in which mainly amateur hobbyists and history enthusiasts dress in historic uniforms and follow a plan to recreate aspects of a historical event or period.

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Hostel

A hostel is a form of low-cost, short-term shared sociable lodging where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed in a dormitory sleeping 4–20 people, with shared use of a lounge and usually a kitchen.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Józef Unrug

Józef Unrug (7 October 1884 – 28 February 1973) was a Polish admiral who helped establish Poland's navy after World War I. During the opening stages of World War II, he served as the Polish Navy's commander-in-chief.

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Kłodzko Valley

The Kłodzko Valley (Kotlina Kłodzka, Kladská kotlina, Glatzer Kessel) a valley in the Sudetes mountain range, that covers the central part of Kłodzko County in south-western Poland, with the southern tip extending to the Czech Republic around the town of Králíky.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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List of Historic Monuments (Poland)

Historic Monument (pomnik historii) is one of several categories of objects of cultural heritage (in the singular, zabytek) in Poland. Fort Srebrna Góra and List of Historic Monuments (Poland) are objects of cultural heritage in Poland.

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Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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National Institute of Cultural Heritage

The National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Poland (Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa NID) is a Polish governmental institution responsible for documenting cultural property and the intangible cultural heritage, as well as for supporting and coordinating their protection.

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Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)

The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade

Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade (Polish Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Karpackich, SBSK) was a Polish military unit formed in 1940 in French Syria composed of Polish soldiers exiled after the invasion of Poland in 1939 as part of the Polish Army in France.

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Prussian thaler

The Prussian Thaler (sometimes Prussian Reichsthaler) was the currency of Prussia until 1857.

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Recovered Territories

The Recovered Territories or Regained Lands (Ziemie Odzyskane), also known as the Western Borderlands (Kresy Zachodnie), and previously as the Western and Northern Territories (Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne), Postulated Territories (Ziemie Postulowane) and Returning Territories (Ziemie Powracające), are the former eastern territories of Germany and the Free City of Danzig that became part of Poland after World War II, at which time most of their German inhabitants were forcibly deported.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Srebrna_Góra

Also known as Fort Silberberg, Silberberg Fortress, Srebrna Góra Fortress, Srebrnogórska Fortress.

Fort Srebrna Góra, the Glossary

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See also

Forts in Poland

Infrastructure completed in 1777

Objects of cultural heritage in Poland

Prussian forts

Tourist attractions in Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Ząbkowice Śląskie County

References