en.unionpedia.org

Ostrołęka, the Glossary

Index Ostrołęka

Ostrołęka is a small city in northeastern Poland on the Narew river, about northeast of Warsaw, with a population of 51,012 (2021) and an area of.[1]

Open in Google Maps

Table of Contents

  1. 108 relations: Antoni Madaliński, Arc de Triomphe, Association football, Łapy, Łomża, Baroque in Poland, Basketball, Battle of Ostrołęka (1807), Battle of Ostrołęka (1831), Battle of Warsaw (1920), Białystok, Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939), Bolesław Roja, Bona Sforza, Central European Summer Time, Central European Time, Cistercians, City, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Deluge (history), Deutsche Volksliste, Duchy of Masovia, Duchy of Warsaw, Działdowo, Electorate of Saxony, Europe, Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany, First French Empire, Forced labour under German rule during World War II, Gaia Gai, Gdańsk, General Government, Germans, Gmina Małkinia Górna, Great Retreat (Russia), Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Handball, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Henryk Dembiński, Institute of National Remembrance, Intelligentsia, Intelligenzaktion, Invasion of Poland, Israel, IV liga, IV liga Masovia, Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki, Józef Bem, Józef Oleksy, Kaliningrad, ... Expand index (58 more) »

Antoni Madaliński

Antoni Madaliński (1739–1805) was a Polish Lieutenant General and commander of the 1st Greater Polish National Cavalry Brigade during the Kościuszko Uprising.

See Ostrołęka and Antoni Madaliński

Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.

See Ostrołęka and Arc de Triomphe

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.

See Ostrołęka and Association football

Łapy

Łapy is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship; the administrative centre of the urban-rural gmina Łapy. Ostrołęka and Łapy are Holocaust locations in Poland and Łomża Governorate.

See Ostrołęka and Łapy

Łomża

Łomża is a city in north-eastern Poland, approximately to the north-east of Warsaw and west of Białystok. Ostrołęka and Łomża are city counties of Poland, Holocaust locations in Poland, Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795), Populated riverside places in Poland, Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939) and Łomża Governorate.

See Ostrołęka and Łomża

Baroque in Poland

The Polish Baroque lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century.

See Ostrołęka and Baroque in Poland

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

See Ostrołęka and Basketball

Battle of Ostrołęka (1807)

The Battle of Ostrołęka was fought on 16 February 1807 between a French force under General of Division Anne Jean Marie René Savary and a Russian force under Lieutenant General Ivan Essen.

See Ostrołęka and Battle of Ostrołęka (1807)

Battle of Ostrołęka (1831)

The Battle of Ostrołęka of 26 May 1831 was one of the largest engagements of Poland's November Uprising.

See Ostrołęka and Battle of Ostrołęka (1831)

Battle of Warsaw (1920)

The Battle of Warsaw (Bitwa Warszawska; Варшавская битва, Varshavskaya bitva), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula (Cud nad Wisłą), was a series of battles that resulted in a decisive Polish victory in 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War.

See Ostrołęka and Battle of Warsaw (1920)

Białystok

Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Ostrołęka and Białystok are city counties of Poland and Holocaust locations in Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Białystok

Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)

Białystok Voivodeship (Województwo białostockie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939).

See Ostrołęka and Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)

Bolesław Roja

Brigadier General Bolesław Jerzy Roja (4 April 1876 − 27 May 1940) was an officer of the Polish Legions in World War I, a general, and a politician in the Second Polish Republic, recipient of some of the highest Polish military awards including Virtuti Militari.

See Ostrołęka and Bolesław Roja

Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza (2 February 1494 – 19 November 1557) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right.

See Ostrołęka and Bona Sforza

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.

See Ostrołęka and Central European Summer Time

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).

See Ostrołęka and Central European Time

Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

See Ostrołęka and Cistercians

City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

See Ostrołęka and City

Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state.

See Ostrołęka and Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

Deluge (history)

The Deluge (potop szwedzki; švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

See Ostrołęka and Deluge (history)

Deutsche Volksliste

The Deutsche Volksliste (German People's List), a Nazi Party institution, aimed to classify inhabitants of Nazi-occupied territories (1939–1945) into categories of desirability according to criteria systematised by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

See Ostrołęka and Deutsche Volksliste

Duchy of Masovia

Duchy of Masovia was a district principality and a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Poland, existing during the Middle Ages.

See Ostrołęka and Duchy of Masovia

Duchy of Warsaw

The Duchy of Warsaw (Księstwo Warszawskie; Duché de Varsovie; Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars.

See Ostrołęka and Duchy of Warsaw

Działdowo

Działdowo (Soldau) (Old Prussian: Saldawa) is a town in northern Poland with 20,935 inhabitants as of December 2021, the capital of Działdowo County. Ostrołęka and Działdowo are Holocaust locations in Poland and Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939).

See Ostrołęka and Działdowo

Electorate of Saxony

The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (Kurfürstentum Sachsen or), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806.

See Ostrołęka and Electorate of Saxony

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

See Ostrołęka and Europe

Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany

The Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany during World War II was a massive operation consisting of the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million Poles from the territories of German-occupied Poland, with the aim of their Germanization (see Lebensraum) between 1939 and 1944.

See Ostrołęka and Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany

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.

See Ostrołęka and First French Empire

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.

See Ostrołęka and Forced labour under German rule during World War II

Gaia Gai

Hayk Bzhishkian (Հայկ Բժշկյան,, also known as Guy Dmitrievich Guy, Gai Dmitrievich Gai (Гай Дмитриевич Гай), Gaya Gai (Гая Гай), – 11 December 1937), was a Soviet military commander of Armenian origin who fought in the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War.

See Ostrołęka and Gaia Gai

Gdańsk

Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Ostrołęka and Gdańsk are city counties of Poland and Holocaust locations in Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Gdańsk

General Government

The General Government (Generalgouvernement; Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II.

See Ostrołęka and General Government

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.

See Ostrołęka and Germans

Gmina Małkinia Górna

Gmina Małkinia Górna is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Ostrów Mazowiecka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Gmina Małkinia Górna

Great Retreat (Russia)

The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915.

See Ostrołęka and Great Retreat (Russia)

Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

Greater Poland Province (Prowincja Wielkopolska) was an administrative division of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1795.

See Ostrołęka and Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.

See Ostrołęka and Handball

Hans Karl von Diebitsch

Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch und Narten (Ivan Ivanovich Dibich-Zabalkansky; 13 May 1785 – 10 June 1831) was a German-born soldier serving as Russian field marshal.

See Ostrołęka and Hans Karl von Diebitsch

Henryk Dembiński

Henryk Dembiński (Dembinszky Henrik; 16 January 1791 – 13 July 1864) was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.

See Ostrołęka and Henryk Dembiński

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.

See Ostrołęka and Institute of National Remembrance

Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers.

See Ostrołęka and Intelligentsia

Intelligenzaktion

The Intelligenzaktion, or the Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a series of mass murders which was committed against the Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) early in the Second World War (1939–45) by Nazi Germany.

See Ostrołęka and Intelligenzaktion

Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

See Ostrołęka and Invasion of Poland

Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

See Ostrołęka and Israel

IV liga

IV liga (Czwarta liga) is the fifth level of the Polish football league system.

See Ostrołęka and IV liga

IV liga Masovia

IV liga Masovia (grupa mazowiecka) is one of the groups of IV liga, the fifth level of Polish football league system.

See Ostrołęka and IV liga Masovia

Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki

Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki (8 February 1787 – 12 January 1860 or 1 December 1860) was a Polish general, and commander-in-chief of the November Uprising (1830–1831).

See Ostrołęka and Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki

Józef Bem

Józef Zachariasz Bem (Bem József, Murat Pasha.; 14 March 1794 – 10 December 1850) was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriotic movements.

See Ostrołęka and Józef Bem

Józef Oleksy

Józef Oleksy (22 June 1946 – 9 January 2015) was a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996, when he resigned due to espionage allegations.

See Ostrołęka and Józef Oleksy

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad (p), known as Königsberg until 1946 (ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbʲerk; Królewiec), is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Kaliningrad

Kingdom of Prussia

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

See Ostrołęka and Kingdom of Prussia

Kościuszko Uprising

The Kościuszko Uprising, also known as the Polish Uprising of 1794, Second Polish War, Polish Campaign of 1794, and the Polish Revolution of 1794, was an uprising against the Russian and Prussian influence on Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland-Lithuania and the Prussian partition in 1794.

See Ostrołęka and Kościuszko Uprising

Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Ostrołęka and Kraków are city counties of Poland and Holocaust locations in Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Kraków

Kurpie

Kurpie is one of a number of ethnic regions in Poland, noted for its unique traditional customs, such as its own types of traditional costume, traditional dance and distinctive type of architecture and livelihoods.

See Ostrołęka and Kurpie

Lebensraum

Lebensraum (living space) is a German concept of expansionism and ''Völkisch'' nationalism, the philosophy and policies of which were common to German politics from the 1890s to the 1940s.

See Ostrołęka and Lebensraum

Masovian Voivodeship

Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province or Mazowieckie Voivodeship or Mazovian Voivodeship or Mazovian Province, etc.

See Ostrołęka and Masovian Voivodeship

Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)

Masovian Voivodeship was an administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland, and of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the 1526 to the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795).

See Ostrołęka and Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)

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.

See Ostrołęka and Mieszko I

Museum of Independence

The Museum of Independence (Muzeum Niepodległości) is a museum in Warsaw, Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Museum of Independence

Narew

The Narew (translit; or) is a 499-kilometre (310 mi) river primarily in north-eastern Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Narew

Narew Ostrołęka

MZKS Narew 1962 Ostrołęka is a Polish football club, currently playing in the V liga.

See Ostrołęka and Narew Ostrołęka

National Cavalry

The National cavalry (Kawaleria narodowa) was a branch of Polish–Lithuanian cavalry in the Polish-Lithuanian armed forces in the last quarter of the 18th century.

See Ostrołęka and National Cavalry

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).

See Ostrołęka and National roads in Poland

Nicolas Oudinot

Nicolas Charles Oudinot, comte d'Oudinot, duc de Reggio (25 April 1767 in Bar-le-Duc – 13 September 1847 in Paris), was a Marshal of the Empire.

See Ostrołęka and Nicolas Oudinot

November Uprising

The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.

See Ostrołęka and November Uprising

Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.

See Ostrołęka and Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

Olsztyn

Olsztyn (Allenstein; Old Prussian: Alnāsteini) is a city on the Łyna River in northern Poland. Ostrołęka and Olsztyn are city counties of Poland, Holocaust locations in Poland and Populated riverside places in Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Olsztyn

Ostrołęka County

Ostrołęka County (powiat ostrołęcki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Ostrołęka County

Ostrołęka Power Station

The Ostrołęka Power Station (Elektrownia Ostrołęka) is a coal-fired thermal power station in Ostrołęka, Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Ostrołęka Power Station

Ostrołęka railway station

Ostrołęka railway station is a railway station in Ostrołęka, Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Ostrołęka railway station

Ostrołęka Voivodeship

Ostrołęka Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the period 1975–1998.

See Ostrołęka and Ostrołęka Voivodeship

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

See Ostrołęka and Paris

Płock

Płock (pronounced) is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. Ostrołęka and Płock are cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship, city counties of Poland, Holocaust locations in Poland and Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939).

See Ostrołęka and Płock

Poale Zion

Poale Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire at about the turn of the 20th century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901.

See Ostrołęka and Poale Zion

Poland

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

See Ostrołęka and Poland

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.

See Ostrołęka and Polish people

Polish People's Republic

The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Polish People's Republic

Polish resistance movement in World War II

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

See Ostrołęka and Polish resistance movement in World War II

Polish–Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Polish–Soviet War

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.

See Ostrołęka and Powiat

Privatization

Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.

See Ostrołęka and Privatization

Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust

Polish Jews were the primary victims of the Nazi Germany-organized Holocaust in Poland. Throughout the German occupation of Poland, Jews were rescued from the Holocaust by Polish people, at risk to their lives and the lives of their families. According to Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, Poles were, by nationality, the most numerous persons identified as rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.

See Ostrołęka and Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust

Revolutions of 1989

The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.

See Ostrołęka and Revolutions of 1989

Royal city in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

In the history of Poland, a royal city or royal town (miasto królewskie) was an urban settlement within the crown lands (królewszczyzna).

See Ostrołęka and Royal city in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

See Ostrołęka and Russian Empire

S&P Global Commodity Insights

S&P Global Commodity Insights is a provider of energy and commodities information and a source of benchmark price assessments in the physical commodity markets.

See Ostrołęka and S&P Global Commodity Insights

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

See Ostrołęka and Saint Petersburg

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.

See Ostrołęka and Sejm

Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia

Siemowit III of Masovia (alternatively Ziemowit III; – 1381) was a prince of Masovia and a co-regent (with his brother Casimir I of Warsaw) of the lands of Warsaw, Czersk, Rawa, Gostynin and other parts of Masovia.

See Ostrołęka and Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia

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.

See Ostrołęka and Soviet Union

St. Anthony's Church, Ostrołęka

St.

See Ostrołęka and St. Anthony's Church, Ostrołęka

Stora Enso

Stora Enso Oyj (from Stora and Enso) is a Finnish and Swedish forest industry company.

See Ostrołęka and Stora Enso

Swedish Empire

The Swedish Empire (stormaktstiden, "the Era as a Great Power") was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.

See Ostrołęka and Swedish Empire

Tłuszcz

Tłuszcz (translation: Fat, German: Tluschtsch) is a town in Wołomin County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 8,039 inhabitants (2021). Ostrołęka and Tłuszcz are cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship and Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939).

See Ostrołęka and Tłuszcz

Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.

See Ostrołęka and Teutonic Order

The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

See Ostrołęka and The Holocaust

Third Partition of Poland

The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polish–Lithuanian national sovereignty until 1918.

See Ostrołęka and Third Partition of Poland

Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

See Ostrołęka and Treblinka extermination camp

V liga

V liga represents the sixth level of the Polish football hierarchy.

See Ostrołęka and V liga

Virtuti Militari

The War Order of Virtuti Militari (Latin: "For Military Virtue", Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari) is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war.

See Ostrołęka and Virtuti Militari

Voivodeship road

According to classes and categories of public roads in Poland, a voivodeship road (droga wojewódzka) is a category of roads one step below national roads in importance.

See Ostrołęka and Voivodeship road

Voivodeships of Poland

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

See Ostrołęka and Voivodeships of Poland

Volksdeutsche

In Nazi German terminology, were "people whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship." The term is the nominalised plural of volksdeutsch, with denoting a singular female, and, a singular male.

See Ostrołęka and Volksdeutsche

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

See Ostrołęka and Volleyball

Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Ostrołęka and Warsaw are cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship, city counties of Poland and Holocaust locations in Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Warsaw

Wielbark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Wielbark (Willenberg) is a town in Szczytno County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

See Ostrołęka and Wielbark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

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.

See Ostrołęka and World War I

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.

See Ostrołęka and World War II

References

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

Also known as Ostroleka, Ostrolenka, Scharfenwiese.

, Kingdom of Prussia, Kościuszko Uprising, Kraków, Kurpie, Lebensraum, Masovian Voivodeship, Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795), Mieszko I, Museum of Independence, Narew, Narew Ostrołęka, National Cavalry, National roads in Poland, Nicolas Oudinot, November Uprising, Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), Olsztyn, Ostrołęka County, Ostrołęka Power Station, Ostrołęka railway station, Ostrołęka Voivodeship, Paris, Płock, Poale Zion, Poland, Polish people, Polish People's Republic, Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish–Soviet War, Powiat, Privatization, Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust, Revolutions of 1989, Royal city in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russian Empire, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Saint Petersburg, Sejm, Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia, Soviet Union, St. Anthony's Church, Ostrołęka, Stora Enso, Swedish Empire, Tłuszcz, Teutonic Order, The Holocaust, Third Partition of Poland, Treblinka extermination camp, V liga, Virtuti Militari, Voivodeship road, Voivodeships of Poland, Volksdeutsche, Volleyball, Warsaw, Wielbark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, World War I, World War II.