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Legnica (Polish:; Liegnitz,; Ligńica; Lehnice; Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River and the Czarna Woda.[1]

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  1. 231 relations: A Woman in Berlin (film), A4 autostrada (Poland), Aleksandra Klejnowska, Alternate history, Anna Dymna, Archaism, Architecture of Legnica, Augustus II the Strong, Augustus III of Poland, Étienne Macdonald, Łukasz Poręba, Żagań, Baroque architecture, Battle of Legnica, Battle of Liegnitz (1760), Battle of Mohács, Battle of the Katzbach, Beata Tadla, Benjamin Bilse, Blansko, Bolesław II the Horned, Bolesław III the Generous, Bolesław IV the Curly, Bronze Age Europe, Central European Summer Time, Central European Time, Centrism, Christian, Duke of Brieg, Chronicle, Church of St. John the Baptist in Legnica, Cityscape, Civic Coalition (Poland), Civic Platform, Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, Cold War, Congress of Vienna, Copper, Czarna Woda (Kaczawa), Czechs, Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union, Dendrochronology, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Districts of Germany, Dresden, Drohobych, Dror Zahavi, Duchy of Legnica, East Germany, Ekstraklasa, Erich von Manstein, ... Expand index (181 more) »

A Woman in Berlin (film)

A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin), known as The Downfall of Berlin – Anonyma in the UK, is a 2008 German film directed by Max Färberböck, starring Nina Hoss and Yevgeny Sidikhin.

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A4 autostrada (Poland)

The A4 autostrada in Poland is a long east–west motorway that runs through southern Poland, along the north side the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains, from the Polish-German border at Zgorzelec-Görlitz (connecting to the A4 autobahn), through Wrocław, Opole, Gliwice, Katowice, Kraków, Tarnów and Rzeszów, to the Polish-Ukrainian border at Korczowa-Krakovets (connecting to the M10).

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Aleksandra Klejnowska

Aleksandra Jadwiga Klejnowska-Krzywanska (born 17 December 1982 in Legnica) is a Polish weightlifter.

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Alternate history

Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.

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Anna Dymna

Anna Dymna (née Dziadyk; born 20 July 1951) is a Polish TV, film and theatre actress, foundress of a charity foundation Mimo Wszystko (Against the Odds).

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Archaism

In language, an archaism is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a historical epoch beyond living memory, but that has survived in a few practical settings or affairs.

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Architecture of Legnica

Architecture of Poland includes modern and historical monuments of architectural and historical importance.

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Augustus II the Strong

Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733.

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Augustus III of Poland

Augustus III (August III Sas, Augustas III; 17 October 1696 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (Friedrich August II).

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Étienne Macdonald

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald,Le Petit Robert des noms propres, French edition, 2018, entry « Macdonald (Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre) ».

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Łukasz Poręba

Łukasz Poręba (born 13 March 2000) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for 2. Bundesliga club Hamburger SV.

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Żagań

Żagań (French and Sagan, Zahań, Saganum) is a town in western Poland, on the Bóbr river, with 25,731 inhabitants (2019).

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Battle of Legnica

The Battle of Legnica (bitwa pod Legnicą), also known as the Battle of Liegnitz (Schlacht von Liegnitz) or Battle of Wahlstatt (Schlacht bei Wahlstatt), was fought between the Mongol Empire and combined European forces that took place at the village of Legnickie Pole (Wahlstatt), approximately southeast of the city of Legnica in the Duchy of Silesia on 9 April 1241.

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Battle of Liegnitz (1760)

The Battle of Liegnitz on 15 August 1760 saw Frederick the Great's Prussian Army defeat the Austrian army under Ernst von Laudon during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War).

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Battle of Mohács

The Battle of Mohács (mohácsi csata, Mohaç Muharebesi or Mohaç Savaşı) was fought on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, Kingdom of Hungary, between the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary and its allies, led by Louis II, and those of the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Battle of the Katzbach

The Battle of the Katzbach on 26 August 1813, was a major battle of the Napoleonic Wars between the forces of the First French Empire under Marshal MacDonald and a Russo-Prussian army of the Sixth Coalition under Prussian Marshal Graf (Count) von Blücher.

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Beata Tadla

Beata Edyta Tadla (born 14 June 1975 in Legnica) is a Polish radio and TV journalist and TV presenter.

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Benjamin Bilse

Benjamin Bilse (17 August 1816 – 13 July 1902) was a German conductor, composer, and violinist.

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Blansko

Blansko (Blanz) is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Bolesław II the Horned

Bolesław II the Horned (Bolesław II Rogatka), known also as Bolesław II the Bald (Bolesław II Łysy; c. 1220/5 – 26/31 December 1278), a member of the Silesian Piasts, was High Duke of Poland briefly in 1241 and Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1241 until 1248, when the duchy was divided between him and his brothers.

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Bolesław III the Generous

Boleslaw III (23 September 1291 – 21 April 1352), called the Generous (Polish: Hojny) and the Wasteful (Polish: Rozrzutny) was Duke of Legnica and Brzeg from 1296 until 1342, and Duke of Wrocław from 1296 to 1311.

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Bolesław IV the Curly

Bolesław IV the Curly (1122 – 5 January 1173), a member of the Piast dynasty, was Duke of Masovia from 1138 and High Duke of Poland from 1146 until his death in 1173.

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Bronze Age Europe

The European Bronze Age is characterized by bronze artifacts and the use of bronze implements.

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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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Centrism

Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum.

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Christian, Duke of Brieg

Christian of Brieg-Legnica (Christian von Liegnitz-Brieg, Chrystian Brzeski-Legnicki, Kristián Břežsko-Lehnický; 19 April 1618 in Oława – 28 February 1672 in Oława) was a Duke of Liegnitz/Legnica (during 1653–1654 and 1663–1664 with his brothers), Brieg/Brzeg (during 1639–1654 with his brothers), Wohlau/Wołów (during 1653–1654 with his brothers, then alone) and Oława (during 1639–1654 with his brothers, then alone).

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Chronicle

A chronicle (chronica, from Greek χρονικά chroniká, from χρόνος, chrónos – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline.

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Church of St. John the Baptist in Legnica

The Church of St.

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Cityscape

In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area.

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Civic Coalition (Poland)

The Civic Coalition (Koalicja Obywatelska, KO) is a catch-all political alliance currently ruling in Poland.

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Civic Platform

The Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej).

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Claus-Wilhelm Canaris

Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (1 July 1937 – 5 March 2021) was a German jurist.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Czarna Woda (Kaczawa)

The Czarna Woda (Polish for "black water") is a river of Poland, a tributary of the Kaczawa, which it meets in Legnica.

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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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Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union

Democratic Left Alliance-Labour Union (Polish: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej-Unia Pracy, SLD-UP) was an electoral committee and a coalition of two Polish centre-left political parties: Democratic Left Alliance and Labour Union.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

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Deutscher Kunstverlag

The Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) is an educational publishing house with offices in Berlin and Munich.

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Districts of Germany

In 13 German states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a Gemeinde (municipality) is the Landkreis or Kreis.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Drohobych

Drohobych (Дрогобич,; Drohobycz; drohobitsh) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Dror Zahavi

Dror Zahavi (born 6 February 1959) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter.

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Duchy of Legnica

The Duchy of Legnica (Księstwo Legnickie, Lehnické knížectví) or Duchy of Liegnitz (Herzogtum Liegnitz) was one of the Duchies of Silesia, formed during the fragmentation of Poland into smaller provincial duchies, ruled by a local line of the Piast dynasty between 1248 and 1675.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Ekstraklasa

(meaning "Extra Class" in Polish), officially known as PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams.

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Erich von Manstein

Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski; 24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Ernst Gideon von Laudon

Ernst Gideon von Laudon, since 1759 Freiherr von Laudon (originally Laudohn or Loudon; 13 February 171714 July 1790), was a Baltic German-born Austrian military officer and one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Great.

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Executive (government)

The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.

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Expressway S3 (Poland)

Expressway S3 or express road S3 (in Polish droga ekspresowa S3) is a Polish highway, which is planned to run from Świnoujście on the Baltic Sea through Szczecin, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Zielona Góra and Legnica, to the border with the Czech Republic, where it will connect to the planned D11 motorway.

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FDi Intelligence

fDi Intelligence is an English-language bi-monthly news and foreign direct investment (FDI) publication, providing an up-to-date review of global investment activity.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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First Mongol invasion of Poland

The Mongol Invasion of Poland from late 1240 to 1241 culminated in the Battle of Legnica, where the Mongols defeated an alliance which included forces from fragmented Poland and their allies, led by Henry II the Pious, the Duke of Silesia.

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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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Football is the most popular sport in Poland.

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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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Foreign direct investment

A foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to purchase of an asset in another country, such that it gives direct control to the purchaser over the asset (e.g. purchase of land and building).

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Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.

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Frederick II of Legnica

Frederick II, Duke of Legnica (Fryderyk II Legnicki) (12 February 1480 – 17 September 1547), also known as the Great of Legnica (Legnicki Wielki), was a Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers), of Brzeg from 1521.

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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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Görlitz

Görlitz (Zgorzelec, Zhorjelc, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialects) is a town in the German state of Saxony. Legnica and Görlitz are Cities in Silesia.

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Günter Reich

Günter Reich (22 November 1921 – 15 January 1989), also spelled Günther Reich and Gunther Reich, was an Israeli baritone of German birth.

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Głogów

Głogów (Glogau, rarely Groß-Glogau, Hlohov, Głogōw) is a city in western Poland. Legnica and Głogów are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Cities in Silesia and Populated riverside places in Poland.

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (sovereign prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal).

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Georg Rudolf Boehmer

Georg Rudolf Boehmer (German: Böhmer) (1 October 1723 – 4 April 1803) was a German botanist and physician born in Liegnitz.

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George William, Duke of Liegnitz

George William (Georg Wilhelm), also known as George IV William (Jerzy IV Wilhelm; 29 September 1660 – 21 November 1675) was the last Silesian duke of Legnica (Liegnitz) and Brzeg (Brieg) from 1672 until his death.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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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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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Gert Jeschonnek

Gert Gustav Paul Jeschonnek (30 October 1912 – 18 April 1999) was an officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War (translit) took place from 1946 to 1949.

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Greeks in Poland

The Greeks in Poland form one of the country's smaller minority groups, numbering approximately 3,600.

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Gustav Winkler

Gustav Winkler (11 May 1867 in Liegnitz – 26 April 1954 in Berlin) was a German industrialist.

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Habsburg monarchy

The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.

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Hans Erasmus Aßmann

Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz (4 February 1646 – 22 April 1699) was a German statesman and poet from the second Silesian school.

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Hans-Heinrich Jescheck

Hans-Heinrich Jescheck (10 January 1915 – 27 September 2009) was German professor of law at the University of Freiburg (1954–1980).

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Hedwig of Sagan

Hedwig of Sagan (Jadwiga żagańska; before 1350 – 27 March 1390) was Queen of Poland as the fourth wife of Casimir III.

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Heinrich Wilhelm Dove

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (6 October 1803 – 4 April 1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist.

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Helena Modjeska

Helena Modrzejewska (born Jadwiga Benda; 12 October 1840 – 8 April 1909), known professionally as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.

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Henry II the Pious

Henry II the Pious (Henryk II Pobożny; 1196 – 9 April 1241) was Duke of Silesia and High Duke of Poland as well as Duke of South-Greater Poland from 1238 until his death.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.

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Highways in Poland

Controlled-access highways in Poland are part of the national roads network and they are divided into motorways and expressways.

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History of Poland (1795–1918)

From 1795 to 1918, Poland was split between Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and Russia and had no independent existence.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.

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Hugo Rühle

Hugo Ernst Heinrich Rühle (12 September 1824 – 11 July 1888) was a German physician born in Liegnitz (today Legnica, Poland).

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Institute of National Remembrance

The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecution service components exercising investigative, prosecution and lustration powers.

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Jacek Oleksyn

Jacek Oleksyn (born 26 April 1953, Legnica) is a Polish biologist specializing in tree biology and forestry, Professor of Biological Sciences, director of the Institute of Dendrology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Kórnik, a corresponding member of PAN.

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Jack Strong (film)

Jack Strong is a 2014 Polish political thriller film directed by Władysław Pasikowski, starring Marcin Dorociński, Maja Ostaszewska, Dagmara Dominczyk and Patrick Wilson.

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Jagoda Szmytka

Jagoda Marta Szmytka (born 15 January 1982, Legnica) is a Polish composer.

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Jakub Popiwczak

Jakub Popiwczak (born 17 April 1996) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as a libero for Jastrzębski Węgiel and the Poland national team.

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Jelenia Góra

Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg) is a historic city in southwestern Poland, within the historical region of Lower Silesia. Legnica and Jelenia Góra are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Cities in Silesia and city counties of Poland.

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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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Joanna Jarmołowicz

Joanna Jarmołowicz (born 19 April 1994) is a Polish actress.

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Johann Wilhelm Ritter

Johann Wilhelm Ritter (16 December 1776 – 23 January 1810).

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Kaczawa

The Kaczawa, in English Katzbach, is a river in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.

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Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang

Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang (3 September 1818 – 8 November 1890), a journalist, politician and Catholic social reformer, was one of the mentors of the Christian Social movement in Austria-Hungary.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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KGHM Polska Miedź

KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (Kombinat Górniczo-Hutniczy Miedzi), commonly known as KGHM (Polish pronunciation), is a Polish multinational mining corporation headquartered in Lubin, Lower Silesia, Poland.

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Kingdom of Bohemia

The Kingdom of Bohemia (České království), sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe.

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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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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (Novemberpogrome), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's nocat.

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Law and Justice

Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland.

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League of Polish Families

The League of Polish Families (Polish: Liga Polskich Rodzin, LPR) is a social conservative political party in Poland, with many far-right elements in the past.

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Lechitic languages

The Lechitic (or Lekhitic) languages are a language subgroup consisting of Polish and several other languages and dialects that were once spoken in the area that is now Poland and eastern Germany.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.

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Legnica Airport

As of 2023, the airport is no longer in use.

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Legnica Special Economic Zone

Legnica Special Economic Zone is a special economic zone in Poland, situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the southwest of the country.

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Legnica University of Management

Legnica University of Management (Polish: "Wyższa Szkoła Menedżerska w Legnicy") is a university in Legnica, Poland, specialising in subjects related to management.

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Legnica Voivodeship

Legnica Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

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Legnickie Pole

Legnickie Pole (in 1945–1948 Dobre Pole) is a village in Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Leo Frankowski

Leo Frankowski (February 13, 1943 – December 25, 2008) was an American writer of science fiction novels.

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Leopold Kronecker

Leopold Kronecker (7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic.

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Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie

The Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie or knight academy was a school for the sons of the silesian aristocracy and landed gentry established in early 18th century, shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Altranstädt (1707).

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List of Polish monarchs

Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries).

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List of Polish royal consorts

The wives of the rulers of the Kingdom of Poland were duchesses or queens consort of 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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Little Moscow (film)

Little Moscow (Mała Moskwa) is a Polish-Russian co-production directed by Waldemar Krzystek and released in 2008.

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Louis II of Hungary

Louis II (II.; Ludvík Jagellonský; Ludovik II.; Ľudovít II.; 1 July 1506 – 29 August 1526) was King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526.

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Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia (Dolny Śląsk; Dolní Slezsko; Niederschlesien; Dolny Ślōnsk; Delnja Šleska; Dolna Šlazyńska; Niederschläsing; Silesia Inferior) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Lugii

The Lugii (or Lugi, Lygii, Ligii, Lugiones, Lygians, Ligians, Lugians, or Lougoi) were a group of tribes mentioned by Roman authors living in ca.

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Lusatian culture

The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1300–500) in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, eastern Germany and western Ukraine.

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Lusatian Neisse

The Lusatian Neisse (Lausitzer Neiße; Nysa Łużycka; Lužická Nisa; Upper Sorbian: Łužiska Nysa; Lower Sorbian: Łužyska Nysa), or Western Neisse, is a river in northern Central Europe.

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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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Marcin Robak

Marcin Robak (born 29 November 1982) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Marek Pająk

Marek Pająk (born 26 November 1977) is a Polish musician.

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Mariusz Lewandowski

Mariusz Lewandowski (born 18 May 1979) is a Polish professional football manager and former player.

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Martin Helwig

Martin Helwig (Martino Heilwig) (5 November 1516 – 26 January 1574) was a German cartographer of Silesia and pedagogue.

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Max Färberböck

Max Färberböck (born 22 September 1950) is a German film director and writer.

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Meissen

Meissen (Meißen), is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Miedź Legnica

Miedź Legnica is a professional football club based in Legnica, Poland, that competes in the I liga, following relegation in 2023.

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Mieszko I

Mieszko I (– 25 May 992) was Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe.

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Military order (religious society)

A military order (militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights.

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Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.

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Mongols

The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.

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Moravia

Moravia (Morava; Mähren) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.

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Muhi

Muhi is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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National road 3 (Poland)

National road 3 (Droga krajowa nr 3) is a route in the Polish national road network.

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National roads in Poland

According to classes and categories of public roads in Poland, a national road (Droga krajowa) is a public trunk road controlled by the Polish central government authority, the General Directorship of National Roads and Motorways (Generalna Dyrekcja Dróg Krajowych i Autostrad).

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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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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Northern Group of Forces

The Northern Group of Forces was the military formation of the Soviet Army (Russian Ground Forces starting 1992) stationed in Poland from the end of Second World War in 1945 until 1993 when they were withdrawn in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Paul Löbe

Paul Gustav Emil Löbe (14 December 1875 – 3 August 1967) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), a member and president of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, and member of the Bundestag of West Germany.

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Piast dynasty

The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Polish Cup

The Polish Cup in football (Puchar Polski w piłce nożnej) is an annual knockout football competition for Polish football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title.

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Polish Investment and Trade Agency

The Polish Investment and Trade Agency (Polska Agencja Inwestycji i Handlu, abbreviated to PAIH) is a Polish government agency which promotes Poland as an attractive destination for foreign investment.

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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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Polish People's Party

The Polish People's Party (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, PSL) is an agrarian political party in Poland.

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Polish resistance movement in World War II

In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army.

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Polonization

Polonization or Polonisation (polonizacja)In Polish historiography, particularly pre-WWII (e.g., L. Wasilewski. As noted in Смалянчук А. Ф. (Smalyanchuk 2001) Паміж краёвасцю і нацыянальнай ідэяй. Польскі рухна беларускіхі літоўскіхземлях.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.

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Popek

Paweł Ryszard Mikołajuw (born 2 December 1978), also known as Popek, Popek Monster and Król Albanii (King of Albania), is a Polish rapper and professional mixed martial arts fighter.

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Postal codes in Poland

In Poland, postal codes were introduced in 1973.

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Potsdam Agreement

The Potsdam Agreement (Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement among three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union after the war ended in Europe on 1 August 1945 and it was published the next day.

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Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

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Powiat

A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (LAU-1) in other countries.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Privilege (law)

A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis.

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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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Province of Silesia

The Province of Silesia (Provinz Schlesien; Prowincja Śląska; Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Regierungsbezirk

A Regierungsbezirk means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Ring road

A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country.

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Roanne

Roanne (Rouana; Roana) is a commune in the Loire department, central France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Legnica

The Diocese of Legnica (Dioecesis Legnicensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Legnica in the ecclesiastical province of Wrocław in Poland.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Sejm

The Sejm, officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.

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Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland

The Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, SRP) is a nationalist, socialist, populist, and agrarian political party and trade union in Poland.

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Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.

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Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I the Old (Zygmunt I Stary, Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548.

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Silesia

Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Silesian Piasts

The Silesian Piasts were the elder of four lines of the Polish Piast dynasty beginning with Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159), eldest son of Duke Bolesław III of Poland.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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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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Soviet people

The Soviet people (sovetsky narod) were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stalag VIII-A

Stalag VIII-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, located just to the south of the town of Görlitz in Lower Silesia, east of the River Neisse.

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Sudetes

The Sudetes, also known as the Sudeten Mountains or Sudetic Mountains, is a geomorphological subprovince of the Bohemian Massif province in Central Europe, shared by the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany.

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Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.

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Tadeusz Rybak

Tadeusz Rybak (October 7, 1929 – March 7, 2017) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop.

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Telephone numbers in Poland

The assignment of telephone numbers in Poland is controlled by the Office of Electronic Communications (Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej or UKE), the national regulatory authority.

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Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union

Seventeen days after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, the Soviet Union entered the eastern regions of Poland (known as the Kresy) and annexed territories totalling with a population of 13,299,000.

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.

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Tomasz Kot

Tomasz Kot (Polish pronunciation:; born 21 April 1977) is a Polish film, television, and theatre actor.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.

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Treaty of Warsaw (1970)

The Treaty of Warsaw (Warschauer Vertrag, Traktat warszawski) was a treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the People's Republic of Poland.

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Treaty of Zgorzelec

The Treaty of Zgorzelec (Full title The Agreement Concerning the Demarcation of the Established and the Existing Polish-German State Frontier, also known as the Treaty of Görlitz and Treaty of Zgorzelic) between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR) was signed on 6 July 1950 in Zgorzelec, Poland.

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Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (Vertrag über die abschließende Regelung in Bezug auf Deutschland), more commonly referred to as the Two Plus Four Agreement (Zwei-plus-Vier-Vertrag), is an international agreement that allowed the reunification of Germany in October 1990.

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Trzebnica

Trzebnica (Polish pronunciation:; Trebnitz, Třebnice, Trzebńica) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in west-central Poland. Legnica and Trzebnica are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

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Uhlan

Uhlan is a type of light cavalry, primarily armed with a lance.

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Unification of Germany

The unification of Germany was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part).

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Uta Zapf

Uta Zapf (born 14 August 1941 in Liegnitz, Province of Lower Silesia) is a German politician and member of the Bundestag (SPD).

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Vassal

A vassal or liege subject is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.

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Vehicle registration plates of Poland

Vehicle registration plates of Poland indicate the region of registration of the vehicle given the number plate.

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Vitello

Vitello (Witelon; Witelo; – 1280/1314) was a Polish friar, theologian, natural philosopher and an important figure in the history of philosophy in Poland.

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Voivodeships of Poland

A voivodeship (województwo; plural: województwa) is the highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries.

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Wałbrzych

Wałbrzych (Waldenburg; Wałbrzich; Walmbrig or Walmbrich; Valbřich or Valdenburk) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland, seat of Wałbrzych County. Legnica and Wałbrzych are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship and Populated riverside places in Poland.

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War of the Austrian Succession

The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Legnica and Warsaw are city counties of Poland.

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Włodzimierz Juszczak

Włodzimierz Roman Juszczak OSBM (born 19 July 1957 in Legnica, Poland) is the current bishop ordinary of the Wrocław-Gdańsk Eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

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Wends

Wends (Winedas; Vindar; Wenden, Winden; Vendere; Vender; Wendowie, Wendové) is a historical name for Slavs who inhabited present-day northeast Germany.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Wilhelm Schubart

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Schubart (21 October 1873 – 9 August 1960) was a German ancient historian.

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Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt (born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974.

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Wordmark

A wordmark or word mark is a distinct text-only typographic treatment of the name of a product, service, company, organization, or institution which is used for purposes of identification and branding.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wrocław

Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. Legnica and Wrocław are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Cities in Silesia, city counties of Poland and Populated riverside places in Poland.

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Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Politechnika Wrocławska) is a technological university in Wrocław, Poland.

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Wuppertal

Wuppertal ("Wupper Dale") is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of 355,000.

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Złotoryja

Złotoryja (Goldberg,; Latin: Aureus Mons, Aurum) is a historic town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland, the administrative seat of Złotoryja County, and of the smaller Gmina Złotoryja. Legnica and Złotoryja are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship and Populated riverside places in Poland.

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Zgorzelec

Zgorzelec (Görlitz, Zhorjelc, Zgórjelc, Zhořelec) is a town in southwestern Poland with 30,374 inhabitants (2019). Legnica and Zgorzelec are Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

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1669 Polish–Lithuanian royal election

The 1669 Polish–Lithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the Polish–Lithuanian throne.

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1997 Central European flood

The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 billion (3.8 billion euros in the Czech Republic and Poland and 330 million euros in Germany).

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References

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

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