my homeland

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Poland

By Kinga Turowska

THE BEGINNINGS

​LEGENDS: Lech, Czech and Rus

Legendary brothers believed to be the progenitors of slavic nations:
Lech- Poland
Czech- The Czech
Rus- Russia

HARD FACTS

MIESZKO I -X CENTURY

a PRINCE AND WARRIOR WHO:
-UNITED SEVERAL SLAVIC TRIBES NOW CONSTITUTING POLAND
- INTRODUCED CHRISTIANITY TO POLAND- 966- THUS LINKING POLISH AREAS TO THE REST OF EUROPE POLITICALLY

good times bad times

​-Poland was a European powerhouse- got rich selling grain and running busy ports- btw-"spruce"- the word comes from 15th century wher merchants advertised good quality timber saying it is from Prussia [ in Polish z Prus- phonetically: spruce]:)

BECOMING A PROPER COUNTRY

​BOLESŁAW i CHROBRY [ THE BRAVE]

Son of Mieszko I , the first KING- coronation in 1025
Gniezno Congress- in 1000, Ceasar Otto III travelled to Gniwezno- then capital of Poland to meet Bolesław

GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES

​THE SWEDISH DELUGE:

Seden wanted to take over the control of Baltic trade-lucrative, while Poland struggled with internal tensions: the union between Poland and Lithuania resulting in a Commonwealth state was not working well.
The Swiss swept across Poland several times, looting and burning things which drastically changed the status of Poland and its power

VIENNA- 1683

​Jan III Sobieski

Polish king went to Vienna and his army beat the army of the Ottoman Empire trying to invade Europe.
THIS IS ALSO THE BEGINNING OF COFFEE DRINKING IN EUROPE

GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES

​PARTITIONS

1772-FIRST PARTITIONS:Polish, land divided among: Russia, Prussia and Austria
1793 SECOND PARTITIONS: land divided between Russia and Prussia to prevent Poland from becoming a superpower as......

Good times bad times

​ 3 MAY 1791

Poland proclaims a constitution , the first in Europe

GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES

​1795- THE THIRD PARTITIONS

Poland disappears off the maps and ceases to exist, land divided among: Russia, Prussia and Austria.
There is no Poland as such..until 1918

GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES

​MARIA SKLODOWSKA CURIE

Left Poland to study in France, married a Frenchman. Discovered radioactive elements: POLONIUM [ to commemorate her homeland]
RADIUM

TERRIBLE TIMES

​WORLD WARS

The second world war:
left Poland without 46% of its territory
left Poland without 40-50 % of its intelligentsia , intentionally killed
left Poland without 65%of industrial infrastructure
plunged Poland into communism

TRICKY TIMES

​ LECH WAŁĘSA

An electrician from Gdansk Shipyard,
leader of anti communist trade unions- Solidarity [ Solidarność]
president of Poland
maybe, just maybe a Russian puppet

in the south of Poland, Zakopane is the resort

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​the Tetra Mountains

Polish pre-war artist who popularised Zakopane.
Famous for his portraits

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​WITKACY

​WITKACY

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World famous Polish composer and pianist

​​FRYDERYK CHOPIN

​Great painter, symbolist

​​Jacek Malczewski

​Rainter, poet, as good as Adolf Mucha:)

​​Wyspiański

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​1822-1882

​​IGNACY ŁUKASIEWICZ

​-invented the oil lamp
opened the first crude oil mine in the world:)

​​POLISH INVENTOR