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4 days ago · Poland - Politics, Democracy, EU: The constitution of Poland’s postwar socialist state, the Polish People’s Republic, took effect in 1952 but was amended numerous times, most significantly in early 1989, when constitutional reforms worked out between the government and Solidarity were passed by the Sejm (legislature). Among the changes were the replacement of the Council of State by the ...
2 days ago · Poland - Cossacks, History, Culture: The Zaporozhian Cossacks were frontiersmen who organized themselves in a self-governing centre at modern Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, first to resist Tatar raids and then to plunder as far away as Constantinople (modern Istanbul). Their prowess was recognized by Sigismund Augustus and Báthory, who “registered” a number of Cossacks for military duty. Other ...
2 days ago · Warsaw lies in east-central Poland about 300 km (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains and about 260 km (160 mi) from the Baltic Sea, 523 km (325 mi) east of Berlin, Germany. [77] The city straddles the Vistula River. It is located in the heartland of the Masovian Plain, and its average elevation is 100 m (330 ft) above sea level.
4 days ago · He then made another flag proposal, a vertical tricolor of red-green-blue, taken from the rainbow. [2] In 1918, Martiros Saryan, an Armenian painter designed a rainbow flag proposal as "color is a genuine miracle". [3] Father Ghevont Alishan's first proposal (1885) Father Ghevont Alishan's second proposal (1885)
3 days ago · The national flag of Poland, which was adopted in 1919, comprises a white horizontal band above a red horizontal band. The Polish coat of arms features a white eagle on a red background. The national anthem is “Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła” (“Poland Has Not Yet Perished
1 day ago · A fully independent Ukraine emerged only late in the 20th century, after long periods of successive domination by Poland - Lithuania, Russia, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Ukraine had experienced a brief period of independence in 1918–20, but portions of western Ukraine were ruled by Poland, Romania, and ...
2 days ago · Law and Justice. ul. Nowogrodzka [ pl] 84/86, 02-018 Warsaw. Law and Justice ( Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość [ˈpravɔ i ˌspravjɛˈdlivɔɕt͡ɕ] ⓘ, PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński .
