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Kudowa-Zdrój, the Glossary

Kudowa-Zdrój (Bad Kudowa, Chudoba), or simply Kudowa, is a town located below the Table Mountains in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in the southwestern part of Poland.^[1]

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Czech Republic–Poland border crossings
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Spa towns in Poland

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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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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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Central European Summer Time

Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.

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Central European Time

Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Circulatory system

The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human or other vertebrate.

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County of Kladsko

The County of Kladsko (Kladské hrabství, Grafschaft Glatz, Hrabstwo kłodzkie) was a historical administrative unit within Bohemia as a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia and later in the Kingdom of Prussia with its capital at Kłodzko (Kladsko) on the Nysa river.

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Czech Corner

The Czech Corner (Český koutek, Czeski kątek, Böhmischer Winkel) is a territory found in the western end of Klodzko land, close to the current Czech–Polish border.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

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Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)

During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg (Neumark) and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union.

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Forced labour under German rule during World War II

The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

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George of Poděbrady

George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (Jiří z Poděbrad; Georg von Podiebrad), was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471.

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Gmina

The gmina (Polish:, plural gminy) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality.

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Gmina Tuchola

Gmina Tuchola is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Tuchola County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

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Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (26 October 180024 April 1891) was a Prussian field marshal.

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Henry I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels

Henry the Elder of Münsterberg (also called Henry I of Münsterberg, Henry I of Oels; Jindřich starší z Minstrberka or Jindřich starší z Poděbrad; Heinrich der Ältere von Münsterberg or Heinrich I. von Oels; 1448 – 1498, Kłodzko) was an Imperial Count and Count of Kladsko.

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Hermann Raster

Hermann Raster (May 6, 1827 – July 24, 1891) was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a widely circulated newspaper in the German language in the United States, between 1867 and 1891.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Horn-Bad Meinberg

Horn-Bad Meinberg (Low German: Häoern-Möomag) is a German city in the Lippe district in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia on the edge of the Teutoburg forest.

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Hronov

Hronov is a town in Náchod District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Hussites

Catholic crusaders in the 15th century The Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars. The movement began in Prague and quickly spread south and then through the rest of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Eventually, it expanded into the remaining domains of the Bohemian Crown as well. The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl.

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Interwar period

In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).

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Italians

Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kłodzko

Kłodzko (Kladsko; Glatz; Glacio) is a historic town in south-western Poland, in the region of Lower Silesia. Kudowa-Zdrój and Kłodzko are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship and kłodzko County.

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Kłodzko County

Kłodzko County (powiat kłodzki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland.

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Kłodzko Land

Kłodzko Land (Ziemia kłodzka; Kladsko; Glatzer Land) is a historical region in southwestern Poland.

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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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Kresy

Eastern Borderlands (Kresy Wschodnie) or simply Borderlands (Kresy) was a term coined for the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period (1918–1939).

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Kudowa-Zdrój

Kudowa-Zdrój (Bad Kudowa, Chudoba), or simply Kudowa, is a town located below the Table Mountains in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in the southwestern part of Poland. Kudowa-Zdrój and Kudowa-Zdrój are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Cities in Silesia, Czech Republic–Poland border crossings, kłodzko County and spa towns in Poland.

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List of counties of Poland

The following is an alphabetical list of all 380 county-level entities in Poland.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of subcamps of Gross-Rosen

Below is the list of subcamps of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a complex of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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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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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Náchod

Náchod (Nachod) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. Kudowa-Zdrój and Náchod are Czech Republic–Poland border crossings.

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Ossuary

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.

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Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.

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Poland

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

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Polish opera

Polish opera may be broadly understood to include operas staged in Poland and works written for foreign stages by Polish composers, as well as opera in the Polish language.

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Province of Lower Silesia

The Province of Lower Silesia (Provinz Niederschlesien; Silesian German: Provinz Niederschläsing; Prowincja Dolny Śląsk; Prowincyjŏ Dolny Ślōnsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945.

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Raphael Friedeberg

Raphael Friedeberg (14 March 1863 – 16 August 1940) was a German physician, socialist and anarchist.

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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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Refugees of the Greek Civil War

During and after the Greek Civil War of 1946–1949, members and or supporters of the defeated Communist forces fled Greece as political refugees.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Skull Chapel

The Skull Chapel (Kaplica Czaszek) or St. Kudowa-Zdrój and Skull Chapel are kłodzko County.

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The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands,; SPD) is a social democratic political party in Germany.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudowa-Zdrój

Also known as Bad Kudowa, History of Kudowa-Zdrój, Kudowa, Kudowa Zdrój, Schlaney, Słone (Kudowa-Zdrój).

, Skull Chapel, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Soviet Union, Stanisław Moniuszko, Stołowe Mountains, Stołowe Mountains National Park, Tourism, Voivodeships of Poland, Wambierzyce, West Slavs, Winston Churchill, World War II.

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Czech Republic–Poland border crossings

Kłodzko County

Spa towns in Poland

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