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unusual facts about Wilda, Poznań


Wilda

Wilda, Poznań, a southern district of the city of Poznań in western Poland


2008 Individual Speedway Polish Championship

First time Individual Polish Championship was won by Adam Skórnicki (Poznań, former Leszno's rider) who beat former permanent Grand Prix riders Jarosław Hampel (Leszno) and Grzegorz Walasek (Zielona Góra).

2011 Poznań Porsche Open

It took place at the Park Tenisowy Olimpia in Poznań, Poland from 16 to 24 July 2011, including the qualifying competition in the first two days.

Ahmet Yumrukaya

Yumrukaya and his teammate İhsan Emre Vural took first place in the lightweight men's coxless pair event in the 2004 Under 23 World Championships held in Poznań, Poland.

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski

After graduating from the Kraków Academy, he was ordained a vicar and served under Archbishop Jan Łaski (the Elder), and later under the Bishop of Poznań, Jan Latalski.

Antoni Radziwiłł

Apart from the guitar, cello and opera concertos performed by Radziwiłł himself, among his guests were Niccolò Paganini (concert in Poznań on 19 May 1829), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frédéric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Baltic Ground Services

In May 2010, Baltic Ground Services established a subsidiary in Poland with hopes to expand into six largest Polish airports in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznan and Katowice.

Bartel BM-5

The aircraft was designed by Ryszard Bartel in Samolot factory in Poznań, as an advanced trainer, transitory between primary trainers and bomber or reconnaissance aircraft.

Carroll Glenn

The tour, sponsored by the US State Department and the Polish Art Agency, had Freeman conduct concerts with the orchestras in Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw, and Kraków.

Danuta Mizgalska

At some concert she sang with other artists who came from Poznan: Eleni Tzoka, Halina Frackowiak, Anna Jantar.

Dzielnica

Łódź, Wrocław and Poznań are each divided into five districts of this type.

Ed McKeever

In 2012 McKeever won the K1 200m event at the Word Cup in Poznan he also won the K1 200m at the European Championships in 2010 Trasona, Spain and the kayak World Cup race in Szeged, Hungary.

Edward Likowski

He gained a bachelor's in 1861 from Monastir and was ordained a priest on 21 December 1861 in the diocese of diocese of Gniezno-Poznań.

Elizaveta Ostrogska

In 1555 King made her marry Łukasz Górka, voivode of Poznań, Kalisz, Łęczyca and Brześć Kujawski again against her and her mothers` will, who wanted Halszka to marry Siemion Olelkowicz, Prince of Slutsk.

Feliks Sypniewski

He lived and worked mostly in Poznań and Warsaw (both of these Polish cities were located in 2 separate countries after the Partitions of Poland and Vienna Congress), and by the age of 30 he was considered one of the most renowned Polish painters in his times.

Fort VII

Prisoners were made to work on the construction of a new camp south of Poznań, in Żabikowo (called Poggenburg by the Nazis), and were then transferred there, the last ones being moved on 25 April 1944.

Frances Houghton

Houghton won gold medals in the 2004 World Rowing Cups at both Lake Malta Poznań, Poland and Rotsee Lucerne, Switzerland, partnered by Alison Mowbray, Debbie Flood and Rebecca Romero - the first British women's quad to beat the Germans in this event.

Géza Alföldy

Furthermore, Alföldy was a guest professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1972/73), in Rome from 1986 and 2003, in Paris (1991), and Pécs (still in 1993) in Poznań (1992), in Budapest (1993), and also in Barcelona in 1997 and 1998.

Głowno

Since the joining of the European Union by Poland, many town inhabitants left in search of better life in nearby capital city of Warsaw and Poznań, and especially large migration has been witnessed to the United Kingdom, since 2010 to Germany and some to Italy, and town's population decreased.

Hanriot HD.19

The production was located in WWS Samolot factory in Poznań, which built 80 examples between 1925 and 1928, designated Hanriot H-19.

Johann Friedrich Krummnow

Johann Friedrich Krummnow was born in 1811 in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, (later known as Poznań, Poland) and was raised in a German community.

Josef Tal

Josef Tal was born Josef Grünthal in the town of Pinne (now Pniewy), near Poznań, German Empire (present-day Poland).

Karol Libelt

Karol Libelt (8 April 1807, Poznań, Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation - 9 June 1875, Brdowo) was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, president of the PTPN.

Konspiracyjne Wojsko Polskie

It was most active in the Łódź Voivodeship, but also in the neighboring provinces of northern Upper Silesia, eastern Poznań and western Kielce.

Kostrzyn–Słubice Special Economic Zone

All the subzones are close to airports with passenger and cargo facilities in the cities of Babimost, Goleniów and the German capital, Berlin as well as being close to trade and manufacturing centres that are located in the largest cities of the surrounding regions: Gorzów Wlkp, Zielona Góra, Poznań, Szczecin and Koszalin.

Koziegłowy

Koziegłowy, Greater Poland Voivodeship, an urbanized village adjoining Poznań (west-central Poland)

Krzysztof Czerwiński

Czerwinski studied at Wieniawski School of music (Poznań, Poland), Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester, New York, U.S.) and Birmingham Conservatoire (University of Central England, Birmingham, UK).

Maksymilian Jackowski

Maksymilian Jackowski (11 October 1815, in Slupia, Grand Duchy of Posen – 14 January 1905, in Posen) was a Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society (Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze), patron of the agricultural circles.

Mieszko III the Old

For unknown reasons, Bolesław and Mieszko did not try to defend the traditional frontier on the Oder River, but instead burned the castles of Głogów and Bytom and began their retreat into the depths of Greater Poland, where Bolesław's forces finally had to surrender to the Imperial troops at Krzyszkowo near Poznań.

Milko Kazanov

He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in 1999 and bronze (K-4 1000 m) in Poznań in 2000.

Ostrów Tumski, Poznań

The railway across the island was originally a section of the line from Poznań to Bydgoszcz which opened in 1872; it now also carries trains running on the lines to Warsaw and Wągrowiec.

Peter Carstens

Peter Carstens (September 13, 1903 in Brunsbüttel – January 1945 in Poznań) was a German geneticist and animal breeder and SS-Oberführer for the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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.

Piotr Napierała

Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) – twórca brytyjskiej potęgi, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2008.

Piotr Tomicki

Tomicki was born in 1464 near Poznan as the son of Mikołaj of Tomice, a Chorąży from Poznań and Anny of Szamotuły.

Piotr Wawrzyniak

Piotr Wawrzyniak (30 January 1849, Wyrzeka – 9 November 1910, Poznań) was a Polish priest, economic and educational activist, patron of the Union of the Earnings and Economic Societies (Związek Spółek Zarobkowych i Gospodarczych).

Polish Golden Age

In architecture, Renaissance and Mannerism prevailed (see Renaissance in Poland, Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland), with best examples being the Sigismund's Chapel of the Wawel Cathedral, tenement houses, churches and town halls in Poznan, Krakow, Zamosc, Kazimierz Dolny, Lublin, Lwow, Gdansk and other cities, as well as castles (Pieskowa Skala, Krzyztopor, Krasiczyn, Baranow Sandomierski and others).

Poznań 1956 protests

Poplavsky did not bother to use local regulars from Poznań garrisons, instead taking other troops from Silesian Military District and recalling special troops from the Biedrusko military base north of Poznań.

Poznań University of Science and Technology

Poznań University of Science and Technology is a University in Kalisz, Poland.

PWS-20

Therefore, in 1933 one aircraft was withdrawn from use in Poznań, while the second was written off in Warsaw.

Raczynski

Raczyński Library in Poznań, founded by Edward Raczyński (1786–1845), in Poznań

Rodryg Dunin

He was a student at Maria Magdalena Gymnasium (high school) in Poznań, where he participated actively in a secret Polish educational-social youth movement, and later studied at academies in Tetschen (Děčín), Bohemia, and Leipzig, Saxony.

Sylwester Ambroziak

He has exhibited his work all around Europe and North America since 1986 including Warsaw, Stockholm, Montreal, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Ostrava, Poznan, Stockholm, London and Amsterdam.

Tomasz Mendelski

He also won the bronze medal at the 2004 European Championships in Poznań, Poland, finishing just in front of Spain's Jovino González.

Treaty of Poznań

The Treaty of Poznań was signed on 11 December 1806 in Poznań and ended the war between France and Saxony (Prussia’s ally) after the latter’s defeat during the War of the Fourth Coalition.

Vinzenz Lachner

Vinzenz scratched out a living teaching music in Augsburg until his brother Franz arranged for him to become conductor and house musician for Earl Mycielski of Coscevitz in the Grand Duchy of Poznań.

Western Institute

The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: Instytut Zachodni, German West-Institut, French: L'Institut Occidental) is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Poland, Silesia, Pomerania), history, economy and politics of Germany, and the Polish-German relations in history and today.

Władysław Orlicz

Władysław Roman Orlicz (May 24, 1903 in Okocim, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) – August 9, 1990 in Poznań, Poland) was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics.


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