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2 unusual facts about Dobra


Kujawy, Poland

The first mention of the village dates to 1383, when the Piast Prince Ladislaus II titled himself as Duke of Opole, Prudnik, Dobra, and Kujawy.

Maria Piotrowiczowa

Maria Piotrowiczowa, a January insurgent, participant of the battle of Dobra (the Łódź province), born in 1839, killed on 24 February 1863.


Don Mentony Band

Don Mentony Band became recognised in the late 1980s with the remake of the song "Tulsa Time" (in Slovenian Dobra mrha).

Spearwood, Western Australia

Phoenix Road was named by John Healy after Phoenix Park Dublin, where the British Chief Secretary for Ireland was assassinated by Fenians in 1882, although an alternative suggestion is that it was named by Steve Dobra, the first settler on Phoenix Road, who worked in Phoenix, Arizona before coming to Western Australia in 1912.

Vladimir Varlaj

Along with these marine landscapes were views of pastures and valleys from continental Croatia (Klek, Dobra, and around Zagreb).


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