Poland (place)

The E2 guide to Poland

Several facts

• Local name: Rzeczpospolita Polska
• TLD: .pl
• Currency: Polish Zloty
• International calling code: 48

Capital City

• Warszawa or Warsaw
• Warsaw Palace of Culture
• Warsaw Central Station
• Warsaw Metro

Other cities and towns

• Auschwitz
• Kraków or Cracow, Architectural masterpieces in Kraków
• Gdansk or Danzig,: Wrzeszcz, Oliwa
• Gdynia
• Kostrzyn
• Lodz
• Opole
• Poznan
• Wroclaw
• Sopot
• Szczecin
• Zakopane
• Zywiec (also a popular beer)

Regions

• Galicia
• Mazovia
• Silesia
• Wielkopolska
• Wolin - an island on the Baltic Sea

Historical figures

• Monarchs of Poland
• Mordechai Anielewicz
• Wojciech Jaruzelski
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko
• Joseph Pilsudski
• Józef Antoni Poniatowski
• Casimir Pulaski
• Jan III Sobieski
• Stanislaw Leszczynski
• Lech Walesa

Notable Poles

• Frédéric Chopin -- Joseph Conrad -- Copernicus -- Marie Curie
• Aleksander Fredro
• Henryk Gorecki
• Krzysztof Kieslowski -- Wojciech Kilar -- Jan Kochanowski -- Jerzy Kosinski -- Kazimierz Kuratowski
• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -- Stanislaw Lem -- Witold Lutoslawski
• Adam Mickiewicz -- Czeslaw Milosz
• Krzysztof Penderecki -- Roman Polanski -- Zbigniew Preisner
• Henryk Sienkiewicz -- Wislawa Szymborska
• Pope John Paul II born Karol Wojtyla
• Andrzej Wajda -- Maia Wojciechowska -- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
• Ludovic Zamenhof
• Polish mathematicians

Government & Politics

• Sejm - the lower house of parliament

Culture

• Polish Romanticism
• Polish Christmas Traditions
• Ashes and Diamonds
• block.pl
• Dekalog
• The Double Life of Veronique
• Hi, Tereska
• Mazurka
• Pan Twardoski
• The Pianist
• Rejs

Language

• Polish
• Cursing in Polish
• Hello in Polish
• Polish days and months
• Polish pronunciation
• Pan

History

• Partitions of Poland
• Polish Corridor
• Battle of Oliwa
• The Wehrmacht's invasion of Poland
• Warsaw Ghetto -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Warsaw Uprising
• Concentration camps @ Auschwitz, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek
• The Kielce pogrom
• Warsaw Pact -- COMECON
• December 1970 Insurrection in Poland
• Solidarity -- December 13, 1981 - martial law declared by a military junta led by Wojciech Jaruzelski
• 1989 Round Table Sessions in Poland

Geography

• Vistula (river)
• Odra or Oder (river)
• Neisse(river)
• Blendowska Desert

Food and Drinks

• Belvedere vodka
• Bigos
• chlodnik
• kapusta
• Kartoflanka
• kielbasa
• kopytka
• paczki -- Fat Thursday
• pierogi aka perogies
• Polish Apple Pie - a cocktail
• Polish Coffee
• wodka
• Wyborowa - the flagship of Polish vodkas
• Zubrovka - an unsual brand of vodka
• Zywiec

Misc

• CIA World Factbook - Poland
• Polish cigarette package warnings
• LOT Polish Airlines
• PZL P.24 - Polish aircraft
• Fat Thursday
• When having sex in Poland
• Mazurek Dabrowskiego - the national anthem
• Virtuti Militari - highest medal for military achievements
• Polish jokes - ahem...
• Poland's official 2002 FIFA World Cup squad
• The Everything People Registry : Poland
• Polish Checkers
• Polish Coca-Cola
• Polish poker? -- 1000