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Getting ready to visit Poland? Want to learn more about your ancestral homeland? In either case this is the perfect book to learn everything you always wanted or need to know about Poland, its people, places and history. 192 pages packed with color pictures, maps, illustrations, facts and figures. See the chapter headings below. English language only.
HISTORY OF POLAND
6
General information
6
The beginnings of Poland
8
Poland’s changing frontiers
9
The Piast dynasty
10
The Jagiellonian dynasty
12
The elected kings
14
The period of foreign rule
16
The 20th century: between the wars (1918-1939)
17
The Second World War (1939-1945)
18
People’s Republic of Poland (1945-1989)
30
The Republic of Poland after 1989
31
POLISH CITIES
32
Gniezno - the first capital of Poland
32
Poznań - the second capital of Poland
34
Cracow - the third capital of Poland
38
Warsaw - the fourth capital of Poland
46
Gdańsk - Sopot - Gdynia - TriCity
92
Gdańsk - Poland’s maritime capital
92
Sopot - the summer capital of Poland
116
Gdynia - Poland’s window to the world
119
Łódź - a city of four cultures
122
Wrocław - a metropolis on the Odra River
123
Sandomierz - a marvel of art and architecture
124
Zamość - a jewel of world Renaissance culture
125
Lublin - a city of knowledge
126
Kazimierz Dolny - a pearl of the polish Renaissance
128
Toruń - the town of Nicholas Copernicus
130
CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN POLAND
132
Częstochowa - the spiritual capital of Poland
134
The BlackMadonna of Częstochowa
135
Poland - a country of pilgrimages
138
Polish sanctuaries
140
Święta Lipka - Poland’s Baroque masterpiece
144
Pelplin - Cistercian cathedral
146
Polish saints
148
Roadside shrines
152
JEWISH ROOTS IN POLAND
154
Thousand years of Jewish history in Poland
154
Jewish Warsaw
156
The Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1943
158
The Ghetto Monument
162
The Jewish cemetery in Warsaw
163
FAMOUS POLES
164
Polish Nobel Prize winners
164
Famous Poles
166
POLISH LANDSCAPES AND CULTURE HERITAGES
178
UNESCO world heritage sites in Poland
178
Polish forests
180
Open-air museums in Poland
186
National anthem
190
Souvenirs from Poland
191
Polish cuisine
192
Polish language
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Hardcover
192 Pages
2012
English Language Only
Size 8.25" x 11.5" - 21cm x 29cm
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