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6 unusual facts about Toruń


12999 Toruń

The asteroid was renamed in 2008 after the city of Toruń, Poland.

John L. Climenhaga

Following his service as an administrator, Climenhaga spent a sabbatical in 1972 and 1973 carrying out research at the University of Tokyo, the Radcliffe Observatory in South Africa and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

Miles Stapleton of Bedale

In January 1363 Stapleton was one of a group of English knights recorded as borrowing money from local merchants at Thorn in Poland, most likely during a Prussian crusade.

Nikodem Sulik

Transferred to Regional Office of Military Preparation in Toruń, he finally ended up in the Border Protection Corps (KOP) units located along eastern border of the Second Polish Republic.

The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press

NCU Press is an official department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).

Walle Plough

A similar plough, also of oak and of similar measurements, was found at Papau near Toruń.


Confederation of Cologne

Since this peace was not enforceable the cities of Lübeck, Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar, Kulm, Thorn, Elbing, Kampen, Harderwyk, Elburg, Amsterdam and Briel signed the confederatio for war against Danmark and Norway.

Edward Stachura

He then moved to Toruń, where he audited lectures in the art department at Nicolaus Copernicus University, and participated in the literary movement of the city.

Krakow gingerbread

Since the 14th century, when Kraków was the capital of Poland, the city was known for its gingerbreads, popular across the land at least as much as the gingerbreads of Toruń and Nuremberg.

Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library

Within the framework of Scientific Libraries Consortium of Kujawsko-Pomorski Region, Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń has started a long-term enterprise of building a digital library called Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library.

Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron

In 1813, Langeron was put in charge of the blockade of Thorn, and later that year he commanded a corps at Koenigswarte, Bautzen, Siebeneichen, Lowenberg, Katzbach, and Leipzig.

Obwodnica Trójmiejska

It enables traveling up to Grudziądz using a motorway, and when the A1 is completed it will connect Gdańsk, through Toruń, Łódź and Katowice to the Czech border in the south.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Prussian estates

They were at first composed of officials of six big cities of the region; Braunsberg (Braniewo), Culm (Chełmno), Elbing (Elbląg), Danzig (Gdańsk), Königsberg (Królewiec) and Thorn (Toruń).

Pszenno

Watzenrode Family went from Weizenrodau to Thorn (Toruń) in Prussia in the 1350s.

Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe

In 1962, Torun designed a stainless steel bangle-style wristwatch for an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

In the same year, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the Louvre held a 45-year retrospective of Torun's work.

Watzenrode

Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (1400–1462), Hanseatic League tradesman in Thorn (Toruń), Prussia, grandfather of Nicolaus Copernicus

Władysław Dziewulski

The crater Dziewulski on the Moon is named after him, as is the Wladyslaw Dziewulski Planetarium in Toruń.

Wojciech Rojowski

He was the creator of the Copernicus monument (1766), commissioned for the Town Hall of Toruń (predecessor to the later Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń).


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