Białystok, Podlaskie, Poland, Europe
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Located in the Białystok Uplands (Polish: Wysoczyzna Białostocka) of the Podlaskie Plain (Polish: Nizina Północnopodlaska) on the banks of the Biała River, Białystok ranks second in terms of population density, eleventh in population, and thirteenth in area, of the cities of Poland. It has historically attracted migrants from elsewhere in Poland and beyond, particularly from Central and Eastern Europe. This is facilitated by the fact that the nearby border with Belarus is also the eastern border of the European Union, as well as the Schengen Area. The city and its adjacent municipalities constitute Metropolitan Białystok. The city has a Warm Summer Continental climate, characterized by warm summers and long frosty winters. Forests are an important part of Białystok's character, and occupy around 1,756 ha (4,340 acres) (17.2% of the administrative area of the city) which places it as the fifth most forested city in Poland. The first settlers arrived in the 14th century. A town grew up and received its municipal charter in 1692. Białystok has traditionally been one of the leading centers of academic, cultural, and artistic life in Podlaskie and the most important economic center in northeastern Poland. In the nineteenth century Białystok was an important center for light industry, which was the reason for the substantial growth of the city's population. But after the fall of communism in 1989 many of these factories faced severe problems and subsequently closed down. Through the infusion of EU investment funds, the city continues to work to reshape itself into a modern metropolis. Białystok in 2010, was on the short-list, but ultimately lost the competition to become a finalist for European Capital of Culture in 2016. Over the centuries Białystok has produced a number of people who have provided unique contributions to the fields of science, language, politics, religion, sports, visual arts and performing arts. This environment was created in the mid-eighteenth century by the patronage of Jan Klemens Branicki for the arts and sciences. These include Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last émigré President of the Republic of Poland; L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto; and Albert Sabin, the co-developer of the polio vaccine. Białystok is situated in the Białystok Uplands (Polish: Wysoczyzna Białostocka) of the Podlaskie Plain (Polish: Nizina Północnopodlaska), part of what is known collectively as the Green Lungs of Poland. The Biała River, a left tributary of the Supraśl River, passes through the city. The landscape of the Białystok Upland is diverse, with high moraine hills and kame in excess of 200 m (660 ft) above sea level. Vast areas of outwash, a glacial plain formed of sediments deposited by meltwater at the terminus of a glacier, are covered by forests. Forests are an important part of the city character, they currently occupy approximately 1,756 ha (4,340 acres) (17.2% of the administrative area of the city) which places it as the fifth most wooded city in Poland; behind Katowice (38%), Bydgoszcz (30%), Toruń (22.9%) and Gdańsk (17.6%). Part of Knyszyn Forest is preserved within the city limits by two nature reserves a total area of 105 ha (260 acres). The Zwierzyniecki Forest Nature Reserve (Polish: Rezerwat przyrody Las Zwierzyniecki), which is contained within the city limits, is a fragment, 33.48 ha (82.7 acres), of the riparian forest with a dominant assemblage of oak and hornbeam. The Antoniuk Nature Reserve (Polish: Rezerwat Przyrody Antoniuk) is a 70.07 ha (173.1 acres) park in the city that preserves the natural state of a forest fragment characteristic of the Białystok Upland, with a dominant mixed forest of hazel and spruce. The 40 ha (99 acres) of forests lying in the vicinity of the Dojlidy Ponds are administered by the Central Sports and Recreation Center in Białystok (Polish: Miejski Ośrodek Sportu i Rekreacji w Białymstoku MOSiR). The Dojlidy Ponds recreation area includes a public beach, walking trails, birdwatching and fishing. Historically, Białystok has been a destination for internal and foreign immigration, especially from Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to the Polish minority, there was a significant Jewish majority in Białystok. According to Russian census of 1897, out of the total population of 66,000, Jews constituted 41,900 (around 63% percent). Białystok's pre-World War II Jewish population constituted about 63 percent of the city's total population of 107,000. World War II changed all of this, in 1939, around 107,000 people lived in Białystok, but in 1946 -- only 56,759, and to this day there is much less ethnic diversity than in the previous 300 years of the city's history.
Adventures in Podlaskie Voivodeship |Fascinating Poland
Podlaskie, a muliti-cultural region, is our favourite region in Poland in the Summer time. When walking along its old industrial district, we were immensely impressed by the scale of the former textile production. Due to its closeness to the Russian empire, Bialystok served as an important meeting point between the two powerful empires, the Prussians and the Russian. Upon this region, many European religion thrived in the shadow of the obvious political tension and military presences.
As a curious traveler, who likes to learn the importance of biological diversity, the best destination is the nearby primal forest, the home of the last Wild European bisons. We enjoyed a tour inside the national park, followed a Polish geologist, who study the vegetations in this region, under the twilight. Sadly, we never met any bison.
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Suwalki Tourist Attractions: 7 Top Places To Visit
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Border Poland-Belarus, Grudki, Bialowieza, Podlaskie, Poland, Europe
Polish-Belarusian border is the state border between Poland and the Republic of Belarus. It has a total length of 398.6 km (247.7 mi), 418 km (260 mi) or 416 km (258 mi) It starts from the triple junction of the borders with Lithuania in the north and stretches to the triple junction borders with Ukraine to the south. Is also part of the EU border with Belarus. After September 1939 the BSSR were included in Western Belarus. Have established five new areas: Baranavichy, Belostokskaya, Brest, Pinsk and Vialejka. In accordance with the treaty signed August 16, 1945 between the USSR and Poland on the state border of Poland passed 17 districts Bialystok Region BSSR with 3 Bialystok and Brest region, where a significant amount of Poles lived. In 1946, during the refinement of the state border of the USSR and Poland from the Grodno Region in favor of the NDP were transferred to the village Klimovka, Minkovtsy, Nomiki, Taki, crush, Šimák Members of Sapotskinsky area - the village and Todorkavtsy Hvorostyan. Thereafter, and until now the border between Poland and Belarus has not changed. River borders (from north to south) are Black Gancia, Volkushanka, Svislach Narew and Western Bug. The Border Agreement between Poland and the USSR of 16 August 1945 established the borders between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Republic of Poland. It was signed by the Provisional Government of National Unity (Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej) formed by the Polish communists. According to the treaty, Poland officially accepted the ceding its pre-war Eastern territory to the USSR (Kresy) which was decided earlier in Yalta already. Some of the territory along the Curzon line, established by Stalin during the course of the war, was returned to Poland. The treaty also recognised the division of the former German East Prussia and ultimately approved the finalised delimitation line between the Soviet Union and Poland: from the Baltic sea, to the border tripoint with Czechoslovakia in the Carpathians. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939 provided for the partition of the Second Polish Republic between the USSR and Nazi Germany. Following the corresponding invasions, a new border was drawn up, though based on the Curzon Line, deviated west of it in several regions. Most notably, was the Belastok Voblast, that was added to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, although most of the region was populated by Poles. After Germany's invasion of the USSR, the territory in question was also re-partitioned by the Nazis. Ukraine and Belarus were administered by the occupation Ostland and Reichskommissariat Ukraine Reichskommissariats. Galician territory east of the 1939 border and the Belastok Voblast plus adjacent territory to the east of this were transformed respectively into the Distrikt Galizien and Bezirk Bialystok, and subjugated directly to the Reich. Following the Soviet Union's liberation of Ukraine and Belarus, in 1943/1944 the Tehran and Yalta discussed upon the future of the Polish-Soviet borders, and the Allied leaders recognised the Soviet right to the territory east of the 1939 border. However, after the liberation of Western Ukraine and Belarus in summer of 1944, a Polish committee formed in the town of Sapotskin sent a letter to Moscow asking that they remain part of Poland. Stalin agreed, and on 29th of September, administration of 17 (of the 23) districts of Belastok Voblast (including the city of Białystok) and an additional three (Siemiatycze, Hajnówka and Kleszczele) of the Brest Voblast was passed to the Polish Committee of National Liberation from the BSSR. In October 1944 these were joined by a further transfer of Lubaczów, Horyniec, Laszki, Uhnów and Sieniawa raions of the Lviv Oblast from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. In March 1945, an additional batch of land, the Bieszczady, Lesko, and most of Przemyśl raions(including Przemyśl city) were transferred to Poland from the Drohobych Oblast of Ukraine to the now Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland. Soon afterwards World War II finished, and as the Provisional Government continued to transfer administration from military to civil bodies, it also finalised its new borders with its neighbours, and in particular, the Soviet Union. On 16th of August 1945, the border agreement was officially signed by Edward Osóbka-Morawski, on behalf of the Provisional Government of National Unity and Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Minister of Foreign affairs. The exchange of ratified documents occurred on 5 February 1946 in Warsaw, and from that date the agreement was in force.
WOW! Poland #1 - Lipowy Most, Podlasie
WOW! Poland prezentuje pierwszy film z serii promującej najciekawsze zakątki naszego kraju. Lipowy Most na Podlasiu to pierwsze z miejsc, do którego udała się nasza ekipa! Magiczne miejsce, oferujące niezliczone możliwości wypoczynku na świeżym powietrzu. A wy? Za co najbardziej lubicie ten region Polski?
The Wonder Of Masuria - HARLEM & Friends
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Poland is beautiful! Wyszkow Area
The first few snapshots from my home area - Mazovian Region. Particularly Wyszków town neighborhood. This is the beginning of the film series from places which I visit while travelling thru Poland. I hope you will enjoy it!
Lublin
Lublin by drone 2016.
Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland and the second largest city of Lesser Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship (province) with a population of 349,103 (March 2011). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River, and is located approximately 170 kilometres (106 miles) to the southeast of Warsaw.
Lublin, until the partitions at the end of the 18th century, was a royal city of the Crown Kingdom of Poland. Its delegates and nobles had the right to participate in the Royal Election. In 1578 Lublin was chosen as the seat of the Crown Tribunal, the highest appeal court in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and for centuries the city has been flourishing as a centre of culture and higher learning, together with Kraków, Warsaw and Lviv.
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Przemyśl - Miasto Wyjątkowe / An Exceptional City in Poland
Przemyśl - Miasto Wyjątkowe.
Przemyśl należy do doborowego grona najstarszych i najpiękniejszych polskich miast. Jego tysiącletnie, burzliwe dzieje splatały się nierozerwalnie z losami całej Rzeczpospolitej. Miasto położone u podnóża Karpat, szczycące się bogactwem ponad tysiąca zabytków, urzeka niezapomnianym pejzażem stromych uliczek, przytulonych do nich wiekowych budowli i wspinających się coraz wyżej wież starych kościołów.
Pamiątki wielkiej, europejskiej historii oraz bliskość dawnych polskich Kresów i ich wyjątkowa atmosfera powodują, że Przemyśl posiada tworzony przez stulecia specyficzny klimat, którym nie może się pochwalić wiele większych od niego i zdawałoby się ważniejszych miast.
Żyjący tu niekiedy od wielu pokoleń ludzie, ich tradycyjna gościnność, śmiałe i realizowane plany na przyszłość sprawiają, że Przemyśl zyskuje na atrakcyjności stając się głównym ośrodkiem turystycznym Podkarpacia. Przemyśl utracił wprawdzie kilkadziesiąt lat temu status największego miasta w regionie, ale jest za to siedzibą dwóch archidiecezji i unikalnych muzeów oraz miejscem ciekawych wydarzeń kulturalnych. Sąsiedztwo fortów Twierdzy Przemyśl i granicy z Ukrainą, bliskość Bieszczadów, Karpat Wschodnich i Lwowa to dodatkowe atuty miasta, które naprawdę zasługuje na to, aby nazwać je wyjątkowym.
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Przemyśl - An Exceptional City.
Przemyśl belongs to a select group of the oldest and most beautiful Polish cities. His thousand years of turbulent history were intertwined with the fate of the entire Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The city is located at the foot of the Carpathians, boasting a wealth of over a thousand monuments, captivates with an unforgettable landscape of steep streets, old buildings huddled up to them and towers of old churches climbing higher and higher.
The memorabilia of the great European history and the proximity of the former Polish Kresy and their unique atmosphere make Przemyśl have a specific climate created for centuries, which can not be boasted by much larger cities and seemingly more important cities.
People who live here for many generations, their traditional hospitality, bold and implemented plans for the future, make Przemyśl gaining on attractiveness becoming the main tourist center of Podkarpacie. Although Przemyśl lost the status of the largest city in the region several dozen years ago, it is the seat of two archdioceses and unique museums and a place of interesting cultural events. The neighborhood of the forts of the Przemyśl Fortress and the border with Ukraine, the proximity of the Bieszczady Mountains, Eastern Carpathians and Lviv are additional advantages of the city, which really deserves to be called an exceptional
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Unknown Poland - Bieszczady Mountain - Histric Polish Cities - Lesko
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