Chojnice, the Glossary
Chojnice (or Chòjnice; Konitz or Conitz) is a town in northern Poland with 38,789 inhabitants, as of June 2023, near the Tuchola Forest.[1]
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Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.
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Aleksander Majkowski
Aleksander Majkowski (Aleksander Majkòwsczi; 17 July 1876 – 10 February 1938) was a Polish-Kashubian writer, poet, journalist, editor, activist, and physician.
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Anti-Polish sentiment
Polonophobia, also referred to as anti-Polonism (Antypolonizm) or anti-Polish sentiment are terms for negative attitudes, prejudices, and actions against Poles as an ethnic group, Poland as their country, and their culture.
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Antoni Klawiter
Antoni Klawiter, the Roman Catholic and, afterward, independent Polish Catholic priest, was born in Chojnice, in modern Poland, on November 12, 1836.
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Arkadiusz Reca
Arkadiusz Reca (born 17 June 1995) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Italian club Spezia and the Poland national team.
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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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Augustinians
Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo.
Łeba (river)
The Łeba, a river in Middle Pomerania (Poland), originates near the village of Borzestowo west of Kartuzy, passes through Łebsko Lake and empties into the Baltic Sea.
Świętopełk II, Duke of Pomerania
Swietopelk II, also Zwantepolc II or Swantopolk II, (1190/1200 — 11 January 1266), sometimes known as the Great (Świętopełk II Wielki; Swiãtopôłk II Wiôldżi), was the ruling Duke of Pomerelia-Gdańsk from 1215 until his death.
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Bad Bevensen
Bad Bevensen (West Low German: Bemsen) is a town in the north of the district Uelzen in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
Baroque in Poland
The Polish Baroque lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century.
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Battle of Chojnice
The Battle of Chojnice may refer to.
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Battle of Chojnice (1454)
The Battle of Chojnice (or Battle of Konitz) occurred on 18 September 1454 near the town of Chojnice, between Poland and the Teutonic Knights during the Thirteen Years' War.
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Battle of Chojnice (1656)
The Battle of Chojnice, also known as the Battle of Konitz, was a surprise nighttime attack followed by a run-and-chase battle during The Deluge.
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Battle of Chojnice (1939)
The Battle of Chojnice occurred during the 1939 German invasion of Poland on the first day of the hostilities, 1 September. Chojnice and Battle of Chojnice (1939) are Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939).
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Bayeux
Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Bethe
The House of Betha or Bethe is a cadet branch of the Anjou, and thus descendants of the House of France.
Bolesław III Wrymouth
Bolesław III Wrymouth (Bolesław III Krzywousty; 20 August 1086 – 28 October 1138), also known as Boleslaus the Wry-mouthed, was the duke of Lesser Poland, Silesia and Sandomierz between 1102 and 1107 and over the whole of Poland between 1107 and 1138.
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Brda (river)
The Brda (Brahe) is a river in northern Poland.
Bydgoszcz Voivodeship
Bydgoszcz Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Casimir IV Jagiellon
Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; Kazimierz Andrzej Jagiellończyk; Lithuanian:; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492.
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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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Chojnice County
Chojnice County (Chòniczzi kréz, powiat chojnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
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Chojnice railway station
Chojnice railway station is a railway station serving the town of Chojnice, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. Chojnice and Chojnice railway station are chojnice County.
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Chojniczanka Chojnice
Chojniczanka Chojnice is a Polish football club located in Chojnice, Poland. Chojnice and Chojniczanka Chojnice are chojnice County.
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Counter-Reformation
The Counter-Reformation, also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time.
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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.
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Dariusz Pasieka
Dariusz Pasieka (born 3 August 1965, in Chojnice) is a Polish professional football manager and former player.
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Deluge (history)
The Deluge (potop szwedzki; švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Duchy of Pomerania
The Duchy of Pomerania (Herzogtum Pommern; Księstwo pomorskie; Latin: Ducatus Pomeraniae) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (Griffins).
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Emil Albert Friedberg
Emil Albert Friedberg (22 December 1837, in Konitz – 7 September 1910, in Leipzig) was a German canonist.
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Emsdetten
Emsdetten (Westphalian: Detten) is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Eugeniusz Kłopotek
Eugeniusz Kłopotek (born 15 November 1953 in Chojnice, Poland) is a Polish politician who is a member of the Sejm of Poland (1997-2005 and since 2007), member of the European Parliament (2004) and member of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Regional Assembly (2006-2007).
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First Partition of Poland
The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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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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Florian Ceynowa
Florian Stanisław Ceynowa (Kashubian Florión Cenôwa) (May 4, 1817 – March 26, 1881) was a doctor, political activist, writer, and linguist.
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Gdańsk Pomerania
Gdańsk Pomerania (Pomorze Gdańskie; Gduńsczim Pòmòrzã; Danziger Pommern) is the main geographical region within Pomerelia (also known as Vistula Pomerania, Eastern Pomerania, and previously Polish Pomerania) in northern and northwestern Poland, covering the bulk of Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions
After partitioning Poland at the end of the 18th century, the Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire imposed a number of Germanisation policies and measures in the newly gained territories, aimed at limiting the Polish ethnic presence and culture in these areas.
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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.
Gmina
The gmina (Polish:, plural gminy) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality.
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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Grabowa (river)
Grabowa (Grabow) is a river in the Pomerania region of northern Poland, long.
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Great Emigration
The Great Emigration (Wielka Emigracja) was the emigration of thousands of Poles and Lithuanians, particularly from the political and cultural élites, from 1831 to 1870, after the failure of the November Uprising of 1830–1831 and of other uprisings such as the Kraków uprising of 1846 and the January Uprising of 1863–1864.
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Hans Krüger
Hans Krüger (6 July 1902 – 3 November 1971) was a former member of the NSDAP party and other Nazi organizations who served as an SS judge in occupied Poland during the Second World War.
Hartwig Cassel
Hartwig Cassel (November 2, 1850 in Konitz, West Prussia (now Chojnice, Poland) – 1929) was a chess journalist, editor and promoter in Great Britain and the United States of America.
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Heinrich Recke
Heinrich Recke (25 August 1890 – 18 August 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several infantry divisions.
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Home Army
The Home Army (Armia Krajowa,; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
Hugo Heimann
Hugo Heimann (15 April 1859 – 23 February 1951) was a German publisher and Social Democratic politician.
Ignacy Mościcki
Ignacy Mościcki (1 December 18672 October 1946) was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Irmina Gliszczyńska
Irmina Mrózek Gliszczyńska (born 9 February 1992) is a Polish competitive sailor.
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Jagiellonian Library
Jagiellonian Library (Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the largest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system.
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Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland.
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Jan Karnowski
Jan Karnowski (Jón Kôrnowsczi, nom de plume Wôś Budzysz; 16 May 1886 – 2 October 1939) was a Kashubian judge, poet and ideologist of the Young Kashubians movement.
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January Uprising
The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence.
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Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Johann Daniel Titius
Johann Daniel Titius (born Johann Daniel Tietz(e), 2 January 1729 – 16 December 1796) was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg.
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Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky
Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky (21 November 1710 – 9 August 1775) was a Prussian merchant with a successful trade in trinkets, silk, taft, porcelain, grain and bills of exchange.
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Kashubian Griffin
The Kashubian Griffin, full name Secret Military Organization "Kashubian Griffin", (Tajna Organizacja Wojskowa "Gryf Kaszubski", Krëjamnô Wòjskòwô Òrganizacjô "Kaszëbsczi Grif") was a Kashubian anti-Nazi organization during World War II in Gdańsk Pomerania - Kashubia.
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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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Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany
During World War II, around 200,000 ethnic Polish children as well as an unspecified number of children of other ethnicities were abducted from their homes and forcibly transported to Nazi Germany for purposes of forced labour, medical experimentation, or Germanization.
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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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Kościerzyna
Kościerzyna (Pomeranian and Kòscérzëna; former Berent) is a town in Kashubia in Gdańsk Pomerania region, northern Poland, with 23,327 inhabitants as of June 2023. Chojnice and Kościerzyna are cities and towns in Pomeranian Voivodeship and Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939).
Konitz affair
The Konitz affair was an accusation of Jewish ritual murder in the unsolved murder and dismemberment of student Ernst Winter in Konitz, then part of the Prussian Province of West Prussia in the German Empire (now part of northern Poland), in 1900.
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Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi (Корсунь-Шевченківський) is a small city located in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine.
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Chojnice and Kraków are Holocaust locations in Poland.
Leopold Prince
Leopold Prince (June 2, 1880 – August 17, 1951) was a German-born Jewish-American lawyer, politician, judge, and amateur conductor from New York.
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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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Mazyr
Mazyr or Mozyr (Мазыр,; Мозырь,; Mozyrz; מאזיר) is a city in Gomel Region, Belarus.
Member of the European Parliament
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
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Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł
Prince Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł (26 October 1625 or 26 October 1635 – 14 November 1680) was a Polish–Lithuanian noble and magnate.
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Misheel Jargalsaikhan
Misheel Jargalsaikhan (born 9 November 1988) is a Polish-Mongolian physician and an actress.
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Nakło nad Notecią
Nakło nad Notecią(Polish pronunciation:; Nakel an der Netze) is a town in northern Poland on the river Noteć with 23,687 inhabitants (2007). Chojnice and Nakło nad Notecią are Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939).
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Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf, Nataniel Mateusz Wolf (28 January 1724 in Konitz – 15 December 1784 in Gdańsk) was an ethnic German botanist, physician, and astronomer who lived most of his life in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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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 concentration camps
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.
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Nicholas Stargardt
Nicholas Stargardt (born in 1962) is Professor of History at Oxford University, currently serving as Vice President of Magdalen College.
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Northern War of 1655–1660
The Northern War of 1655–1660, also known as the Second Northern War, First Northern War or Little Northern War, was fought between Sweden and its adversaries the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1655–60), the Tsardom of Russia (1656–58), Brandenburg-Prussia (1657–60), the Habsburg monarchy (1657–60) and Denmark–Norway (1657–58 and 1658–60).
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Noteć
The Noteć is a river in central Poland with a length of (7th longest) and a basin area of.
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.
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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.
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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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Philomath
A philomath is a lover of learning and studying.
Piotr Dunin
Piotr Dunin (c. 1415 – 1484) was a Polish leader.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
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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Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
This is the 1409-1411 Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War.
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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.
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Pomeranian Griffin
The Pomeranian Griffin secret military organization (Tajna Organizacja Wojskowa Gryf Pomorski) was a Polish anti-Nazi resistance group active in Pomerania and East Prussia during World War II.
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Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship (Województwo pomorskie; Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò) is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland.
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Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772)
The Pomeranian Voivodeship (Województwo pomorskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1454/1466 until the First partition of Poland in 1772.
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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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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.
Poznań
Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. Chojnice and Poznań are Holocaust locations in Poland.
Prussian Confederation
The Prussian Confederation (Preußischer Bund, Związek Pruski) was an organization formed on 21 February 1440 at Kwidzyn (then officially Marienwerder) by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia, to oppose the arbitrariness of the Teutonic Knights.
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Prussian Partition
The Prussian Partition (Zabór pruski), or Prussian Poland, is the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth acquired during the Partitions of Poland, in the late 18th century by the Kingdom of Prussia.
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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.
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.
Rudolf Arnold Nieberding
Rudolf Arnold Nieberding (4 May 1838 – 10 October 1912) was a German jurist and politician.
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Russian Partition
The Russian Partition (zabór rosyjski), sometimes called Russian Poland, constituted the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that were annexed by the Russian Empire in the course of late-18th-century Partitions of Poland.
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Samborides
The Samborides or House of Sobiesław were a ruling dynasty in the historic region of Pomerelia.
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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Scout troop
A Scout troop is a term adopted into use with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and the Scout Movement to describe their basic units.
Second Peace of Thorn (1466)
The Peace of Thorn or Toruń of 1466, also known as the Second Peace of Thorn or Toruń (drugi pokój toruński; Zweiter Friede von Thorn), was a peace treaty signed in the Hanseatic city of Thorn (Toruń) on 19 October 1466 between the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon and the Teutonic Knights, which ended the Thirteen Years' War, the longest of the Polish–Teutonic Wars.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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Siege of Warsaw (1939)
The Siege of Warsaw in 1939 was fought between the Polish Warsaw Army (Armia Warszawska) garrisoned and entrenched in Warsaw and the invading German Army.
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Sigismund II Augustus
Sigismund II Augustus (Zygmunt II August, Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548.
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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.
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski (15 March 1869 – 9 April 1953) was a Polish politician and scholar who served as President of Poland between 1922 and 1926, during the Second Polish Republic.
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Stargard
Stargard (1945: Starogród, 1950–2016: Stargard Szczeciński; Stargard in Pommern or Stargard an der Ihna; Stôrgard) is a city in northwestern Poland, located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
State of the Teutonic Order
The State of the Teutonic Order (Civitas Ordinis Theutonici) was a theocratic state located along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe. It was formed by the knights of the Teutonic Order during the early 13th century Northern Crusades in the region of Prussia. In 1237, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword merged with the Teutonic Order of Prussia and became known as its branch — the Livonian Order (while their state, Terra Mariana, covering present-day Estonia and Latvia, became part of the State of the Teutonic Order).
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Szczecin
Szczecin (Stettin; Stettin; Sedinum or Stetinum) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Chojnice and Szczecin are Holocaust locations in Poland.
Tczew
Tczew (Dërszewò; formerly Dirschau) is a city on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 59,111 inhabitants (December 2021). Chojnice and Tczew are cities and towns in Pomeranian Voivodeship and Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939).
Teutonic Order
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466)
This is the 1454-1466 Polish-Teutonic War.
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.
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Tuchola Forest
The Tuchola Forest, also known as Tuchola Pinewoods or Tuchola Conifer Woods, (the latter a literal translation of Bory Tucholskie; Tëchòlsczé Bòrë; Tuchler or Tucheler Heide) is a large forest complex near the town of Tuchola in northern Poland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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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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Vistula
The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.
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.
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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.
See Chojnice and Voivodeships of Poland
Waalwijk
Waalwijk is a municipality and a city in the southern Netherlands.
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
West Prussia
The Province of West Prussia (Provinz Westpreußen; Zôpadné Prësë; Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and 1878 to 1919.
Willi Apel
Willi Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music.
Winrich von Kniprode
Winrich von Kniprode was the 22nd Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
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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.
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.
Zamość
Zamość (Zamoshtsh; Zamoscia) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. Chojnice and Zamość are Holocaust locations in Poland, Intelligenzaktion massacre locations and Sites of Nazi war crimes during the Invasion of Poland.
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.
See Chojnice and 2016 Summer Olympics
See also
Chojnice County
- Brusy
- Brusy railway station
- Chojnice
- Chojnice County
- Chojnice railway station
- Chojniczanka Chojnice
- Czersk
- Czersk Castle
- Czersk railway station
- Gmina Brusy
- Gmina Chojnice
- Gmina Czersk
- Gmina Konarzyny
- Gutowiec railway station
- Krojanty railway station
- Lubnia railway station
- Moszczenica Pomorska railway station
- Męcikał railway station
- Powałki railway station
- Red Devils Chojnice
- Rytel Wieś railway station
- Rytel railway station
- Szałamaje railway station
- Wojtal railway station
- Zaborski Landscape Park
- Łąg Południowy railway station
- Żabno k. Chojnic railway station
Cities and towns in Pomeranian Voivodeship
- Brusy
- Bytów
- Chojnice
- Czarna Woda
- Czarne
- Czersk
- Człuchów
- Debrzno
- Dzierzgoń
- Gdańsk
- Gdynia
- Gniew
- Hel, Poland
- Jastarnia
- Kartuzy
- Kościerzyna
- Krynica Morska
- Kwidzyn
- Kępice
- List of German exonyms in the Pomeranian Voivodeship
- List of cities and towns in Pomeranian Voivodeship
- Lębork
- Malbork
- Miastko
- Nowy Dwór Gdański
- Nowy Staw
- Pelplin
- Prabuty
- Pruszcz Gdański
- Puck, Poland
- Reda, Poland
- Rumia
- Skórcz
- Skarszewy
- Sopot
- Starogard Gdański
- Sztum
- Słupsk
- Tczew
- Ustka
- Wejherowo
- Władysławowo
- Łeba
- Żukowo
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chojnice
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