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Poland

Po·land

(pō′lənd)

A country of central Europe bordering on the Baltic Sea. Unified as a kingdom in the 11th century, it enjoyed a golden age under the Jagiello dynasty (1386-1572) and was a major power in the 15th and 16th centuries. National independence was lost in 1697 and it was carved up among other states in three partitions (1772, 1793, and 1795). Poland then disappeared as a geographic entity until its reconstitution as a republic in 1918. Its present boundaries date from the end of World War II. Warsaw is the capital and the largest city.

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Poland

(ˈpəʊlənd)

(Placename) a republic in central Europe, on the Baltic: first united in the 10th century; dissolved after the third partition effected by Austria, Russia, and Prussia in 1795; re-established independence in 1918; invaded by Germany in 1939; ruled by a Communist government from 1947 to 1989, when a multiparty system was introduced; joined the EU in 2004. It consists chiefly of a low undulating plain in the north, rising to a low plateau in the south, with the Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains along the S border. Official language: Polish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: złoty. Capital: Warsaw. Pop: 38 383 809 (2013 est). Area: 311 730 sq km (120 359 sq miles). Polish name: Polska

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Po•land

(ˈpoʊ lənd)

n.

a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,608,929; ab. 120,628 sq. mi. (312,685 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska.

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Poland - a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

Polska, Republic of Poland

battle of Tannenberg, Tannenberg - a battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians

Auschwitz - a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II

Preussen, Prussia - a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland; "in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states"

capital of Poland, Warsaw, Warszawa - the capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland

Bromberg, Bydgoszcz - an industrial city and river port in northern Poland

Cracow, Krakau, Krakow - an industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula

Czestochowa - a city of southern Poland whose church contains the statue of the black Madonna which attracts many pilgrims

Danzig, Gdansk - a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century

Katowice - an industrial city of southern Poland

Lodz - a large city of central Poland

Lublin - an industrial city of eastern Poland

Breslau, Wroclaw - a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder

Zabrze - an industrial city in southern Poland

Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

Oder, Oder River - a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea

Vistula, Vistula River - a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea

Pole - a native or inhabitant of Poland

Translations

Pole

بُولَنْدَة

Полша

Polsko

Polen

Polen

Πολωνία

Polonia

لهستان

Puola

Pologne

Poljska

Lengyelország

Pólland

Polonia

ポーランドポーランド共和国

폴란드

Polonia

Lenkija

Polonia

Poljska

Polen

ประเทศโปแลนด์

Polonya

Ba Lannước Ba Lan

波兰

Poland

[ˈpəʊlənd] N → Polonia f

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Poland

[ˈpəʊlənd] n → Pologne f
in Poland → en Pologne
to Poland → en Pologne

Poland

n → Polen nt

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Poland

[ˈpəʊlənd] n → Polonia

Poland

→ بُولَنْدَة Polsko Polen Polen Πολωνία Polonia Puola Pologne Poljska Polonia ポーランド 폴란드 Polen Polen Polska Polónia, Polônia Польша Polen ประเทศโปแลนด์ Polonya nước Ba Lan 波兰

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In Poland they support the party that insists on an agrarian revolution as the prime condition for national emancipation, that party which fomented the insurrection of Cracow in 1846.

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And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.

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She was so fascinated that, even before marrying him, she joined a committee that had been organized abroad to work for the restoration of Poland; and further, she visited the confessional of a celebrated Jesuit priest, who made an absolute fanatic of her.

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It is not a great deal larger than Germany, where a diet representing the whole empire is continually assembled; or than Poland before the late dismemberment, where another national diet was the depositary of the supreme power.

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If more direct examples were wanting, Poland, as a government over local sovereigns, might not improperly be taken notice of.

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Kutuzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions.

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There is a piece in the Fifth Reader--`The Downfall of Poland'--that is just full of thrills.

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Then the colonel, who began to show signs of feebleness, sat down on a bench in the courtyard and began demonstrating to Yashvin the superiority of Russia over Poland, especially in cavalry attack, and there was a lull in the revelry for a moment.

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" 'You shall see the world at your feet; you shall be Emperor of the French, King of Italy, master of Holland, ruler of Spain, Portugal, and the Illyrian Provinces, protector of Germany, saviour of Poland, first eagle of the Legion of Honor and all the rest of it.'

Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Poland, and Italy, all speaking us fair and going along with us; it was a fine thing!

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Ziemianski, Pawel--Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

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