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Complete the sentence about Warsaw with the correct year: Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town which became the seat of the Duchy of Masovia in ______.
Complete the sentence about Warsaw with the correct year: The city rose to prominence after ______, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków.
Complete the sentence about Warsaw with the correct year: Known then for its elegant architecture and boulevards, Warsaw was bombed and besieged at the start of World War II in ______.
Complete the sentence about Kraków with the correct year: Kraków was the official capital of Poland until ______ and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish economic, academic, cul…
Complete the sentence about Kraków with the correct year: With the emergence of the Second Polish Republic in ______, Kraków reaffirmed its role as the nucleus of a national spirit.
Complete the sentence about Kraków with the correct year: In ______, Karol Wojtyła, archbishop of Kraków, was elevated to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.
Complete the sentence about Łódź with the correct year: Founded in ______, Muzeum Sztuki became the first museum in Europe dedicated to collecting and showcasing modern art.
Complete the sentence about Wrocław with the correct year: The city subsequently came under Bohemian, Austrian and Prussian rule, becoming part of the German Empire in ______.
Complete the sentence about Wrocław with the correct year: Following extensive destruction during World War II, it became part of Poland in ______.
Complete the sentence about Gdańsk with the correct year: On 1 September ______, it was the site of a military clash at Westerplatte, one of the first events of World War II.
Complete the sentence about Gdańsk with the correct year: The contemporary city was shaped by extensive border changes, the flight and expulsion of the German population and Polish resettlement after…
Complete the sentence about Gdańsk with the correct year: Dominic's Fair, which dates back to ______, and is regarded as one of the biggest trade and cultural events in Europe.
Complete the sentence about Bydgoszcz with the correct year: In the 13th century it was the site of a castellany, mentioned in ______, probably founded in the early 12th century during the reign of Bo…
Complete the sentence about Lublin with the correct year: In ______, the analytical Financial Times Group found Lublin to be one of the best cities for business in Poland.
Complete the sentence about Białystok with the correct year: From ______, the settlement was owned by the Wiesiołowski family, which founded the first school.
Complete the sentence about Gdynia with the correct year: In ______, Gdynia was granted city rights after which it enjoyed demographic and urban development, with a modernist cityscape.
Complete the sentence about Gdynia with the correct year: In ______, protests in and around Gdynia contributed to the rise of the Solidarity movement in nearby Gdańsk.
Complete the sentence about Gdynia with the correct year: In ______, Gdynia was ranked by readers of The News as Poland's best city to live in, and topped the national rankings in the category of "gen…
Complete the sentence about Radom with the correct year: The Nihil novi and Łaski's Statute were adopted by the Sejm in Radom in ______.
Complete the sentence about Radom with the correct year: Peter church, which in ______ was placed under the authority of a Benedictine Abbey in nearby Sieciechów.
Complete the sentence about Radom with the correct year: The town prospered in the 14th century, when in ______ King Casimir III the Great established the so-called New Town, with a royal castle, a de…
Complete the sentence about Toruń with the correct year: Toruń is one of the oldest cities in Poland; it was first settled in the 8th century and in ______ was expanded by the Teutonic Knights.
Complete the sentence about Toruń with the correct year: In ______ the medieval part of the city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Complete the sentence about Toruń with the correct year: The settlement was first mentioned in ______ under the name Thorun.
Complete the sentence about Sosnowiec with the correct year: Documents from ______ already mention Milowice, Klimontów, and Zagórze.
Complete the sentence about Sosnowiec with the correct year: In the result of the third partition of Poland in ______, however, it was seized by the Kingdom of Prussia and was included into the newly…
Complete the sentence about Sosnowiec with the correct year: During the Napoleonic Wars, it became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in ______ and later, of Congress Poland ruled by the namiestniks of the R…
Complete the sentence about Rzeszów with the correct year: In ______ Forbes awarded Rzeszów with the second place in the ranking of the most attractive semi-large cities for business.
Complete the sentence about Kielce with the correct year: The earliest extant document referring to the settlement by the name of Kielce dates to ______.
Complete the sentence about Gliwice with the correct year: Gliwice was first mentioned as a town in ______, however, it was granted town rights earlier by Duke Władysław Opolski of the Piast dynasty.
Complete the sentence about Gliwice with the correct year: On 17 April ______, Gliwice was captured by the Duke Bolko V, who joined the Hussites after they captured Prudnik.
Complete the sentence about Gliwice with the correct year: After the dissolution of the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz in ______, it was incorporated as Gleiwitz into the Habsburg monarchy.
Complete the sentence about Olsztyn with the correct year: Olsztyn is the largest city in Warmia, and has been the capital of the voivodeship since ______.
Complete the sentence about Olsztyn with the correct year: Allenstein was granted municipal rights by the cathedral chapter of the Bishopric of Warmia in October ______.
Complete the sentence about Zabrze with the correct year: Biskupice, which is now a subdivision of Zabrze, was first mentioned in ______ as Biscupici dicitur cirka Bitom.
Complete the sentence about Zabrze with the correct year: In ______, a coking coal seam was discovered in Zabrze, and then its first coking coal mine was opened.
Complete the sentence about Bielsko-Biała with the correct year: The history of Bielsko dates back to the 13th century, while Biała was founded in the 16th century and obtained city rights in ______.
Complete the sentence about Bytom with the correct year: Until ______, it was in the hands of the Piast dynasty, then it belonged to the Hohenzollern dynasty.
Complete the sentence about Bytom with the correct year: After ______ it was a state country in the hands of the Donnersmarck family.
Complete the sentence about Bytom with the correct year: Bytom is one of the oldest cities of Upper Silesia, originally recorded as Bitom in ______, when it was part of the Medieval Kingdom of Poland.
Complete the sentence about Bytom with the correct year: After the fragmentation of Poland in ______, Bytom became part of the Seniorate Province, as it was still considered part of historic Lesser Po…
Complete the sentence about Zielona Góra with the correct year: In ______ Duke Henry the Bearded from the Piast dynasty brought the first settlers to the area.
Complete the sentence about Zielona Góra with the correct year: As a result of the First Silesian War, the city became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in ______.
Complete the sentence about Zielona Góra with the correct year: The written records of the Slavic settlement date to ______ and an increase of its population by Henry the Bearded.
Complete the sentence about Rybnik with the correct year: In the Middle Ages, three settlements merged into one town, with a Magdeburg rights location dating back to ______.
Complete the sentence about Ruda Śląska with the correct year: Before the German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of World War II, in ______, German saboteurs carried out an attack in Ruda.
Complete the sentence about Opole with the correct year: The National Festival of Polish Song has been held here annually since ______.
Complete the sentence about Opole with the correct year: Opole would become a duchy in ______ and would share much in common with the Duchy of Racibórz, with which it was often combined.
Complete the sentence about Opole with the correct year: In ______ Upper Silesia was divided further between the heirs of the dukes.
Complete the sentence about Tychy with the correct year: Since ______, Tychy has been located within the Silesian Voivodeship.
Complete the sentence about Tychy with the correct year: Since ______, Tychy has grown rapidly, mainly as a result of post-war socialist planning policies enacted to disperse the population of industr…
Complete the sentence about Tychy with the correct year: Although appropriate for most of Tychy's history, the name is now somewhat ironic considering the growth of the city from ______ onwards.
Complete the sentence about Tychy with the correct year: Originally established as a small agricultural settlement on the medieval trade route between Oświęcim and Mikołów, Tychy was first documented…
Complete the sentence about Tychy with the correct year: In ______ the first trace of serious economic activity was recorded in the shape of the Książęcy Brewery, which is now one of the largest brewe…
Complete the sentence about Tychy with the correct year: From ______ onwards the area on which Tychy is built was part of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy.
Complete the sentence about Tychy with the correct year: In ______ Prussia annexed the land after winning the First Silesian War against the Habsburg monarchy.
Complete the sentence about Gorzów Wielkopolski with the correct year: The name appeared in a compendium called Ancient Poland according to its history, geography and statistics published in ______ by…
Complete the sentence about Gorzów Wielkopolski with the correct year: Ten years earlier, in ______, the same name Gorzew was used in a book published in Paris with a corresponding yet broader title e…
Complete the sentence about Gorzów Wielkopolski with the correct year: The current spelling of "Gorzów" appears on the map featuring "Królestwo Polskie" published in Lwów in ______ with "Landsberg an…
Complete the sentence about Płock with the correct year: In ______, a diocese seat was created here for the Roman Catholic church.
Complete the sentence about Płock with the correct year: As a result of the fragmentation of Poland into smaller duchies, from ______ it was the capital of the Duchy of Masovia, and afterwards the Duc…
Complete the sentence about Wałbrzych with the correct year: In ______ Wałbrzych became widely known due to the search for an allegedly buried Nazi gold train, which however was not found.
Complete the sentence about Wałbrzych with the correct year: The earliest documented mention of the settlement appears ______ in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis, a tithe and revenue…
Complete the sentence about Wałbrzych with the correct year: According to 17th-century Polish historian Ephraim Naso, Wałbrzych was a small village by ______.
Complete the sentence about Włocławek with the correct year: One of the earliest references to the town came from an assistant to the Archbishop of Gniezno who was noted as residing in the town in ___…
Complete the sentence about Tarnów with the correct year: The first documented mention of the settlement dates back to ______, spelled as Tharnow.
Complete the sentence about Chorzów with the correct year: Administratively, Chorzów is in the Silesian Voivodeship since ______, previously Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, the Silesian Voivode…
Complete the sentence about Chorzów with the correct year: Chorzów is believed to be first mentioned as Zversov or Zuersov in a document of ______ by Pope Innocent II as a village with peasants, silve…
Complete the sentence about Koszalin with the correct year: In ______, the eastern part of Kołobrzeg Land, including the village, was transferred by Duke Barnim I to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamm…
Complete the sentence about Koszalin with the correct year: When in ______ the bishops became the sovereign in neighboring Kołobrzeg, they moved their residence there, while the administration of the…
Complete the sentence about Kalisz with the correct year: In ______, Bolesław III Wrymouth captured the town, and made it a part of his feudal domain.
Complete the sentence about Kalisz with the correct year: In ______, the Statute of Kalisz was issued in the city by Bolesław the Pious.
Complete the sentence about Legnica with the correct year: As well as being the seat of the county, since ______ the city has been the seat of the Diocese of Legnica.
Complete the sentence about Legnica with the correct year: The name "Legnica" was mentioned in ______ under High Duke of Poland Bolesław IV the Curly.
Complete the sentence about Grudziądz with the correct year: Grudziądz is one of the oldest cities in north-central Poland, founded by King Bolesław I the Brave over ______ years ago.
Complete the sentence about Grudziądz with the correct year: The settlement was re-fortified again from ______ by the Teutonic Order.
Complete the sentence about Grudziądz with the correct year: In ______ both "the castle and the town" were besieged heavily by the Yotvingians.
Complete the sentence about Sopot with the correct year: The village of Sopot, which later became the namesake for the whole city, was first mentioned in ______ when it was granted to the Cistercians.
Complete the sentence about Zakopane with the correct year: In ______, Zakopane was a small town that was still being developed.
Complete the sentence about Malbork with the correct year: The town was built in Prussia around the fortress Ordensburg Marienburg, which was founded in ______ on the east bank of the river Nogat by t…
Complete the sentence about Malbork with the correct year: In ______, Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński, his wife Queen consort Catherine Opalińska, and his mother Anna Leszczyńska resided in the cast…
Complete the sentence about Zamość with the correct year: Zamość was founded in ______ by Jan Zamoyski, Grand Chancellor of Poland, who envisioned an ideal city.
Complete the sentence about Zamość with the correct year: In ______, Jan Zamoyski founded the Zamoyski Academy in Zamość.
Complete the sentence about Zamość with the correct year: Following the Austro-Polish War of ______ the city was incorporated into the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw.
Complete the sentence about Zamość with the correct year: The 17th Polish Infantry Regiment was formed in Zamość in ______.
Complete the sentence about Sandomierz with the correct year: As a result, in ______ the High Duke of Poland Leszek II the Black, effectively refounded the city under Magdeburg Law and granted staple…
Complete the sentence about Kazimierz Dolny with the correct year: For the first time, the name Kazimierz appears in chronicles in ______.
Complete the sentence about Kazimierz Dolny with the correct year: In the early 14th century, the village became a royal possession, and King Władysław I the Elbow-high founded there a parish church i…
Complete the sentence about Wieliczka with the correct year: The town was initially founded in ______ by Premislaus II of Poland.
Complete the sentence about Wieliczka with the correct year: After the ______ discovery of large salt and potassium deposits across southern Poland, the extraction of salt began on a much broader scal…
Complete the sentence about Wieliczka with the correct year: In the year ______, Henryk IV Probus, then Lord of Kraków, issued a document authorising brothers Jescho and Isenbold to expand the town.
Complete the sentence about Auschwitz concentration camp with the correct year: In May ______, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries established the camp's reputation for sadism.
Complete the sentence about Auschwitz concentration camp with the correct year: The first gassings—of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August ______.
Complete the sentence about Wawel Castle with the correct year: In ______, Wawel was declared the first World Heritage Site as part of the Historic Centre of Kraków.
Complete the sentence about Malbork Castle with the correct year: In ______, during the Thirteen Years' War, the castle was sold by Bohemian mercenaries to King Casimir IV of Poland in lieu of indemni…
Complete the sentence about Malbork Castle with the correct year: UNESCO designated the "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork" and the Malbork Castle Museum a World Heritage Site in December ______…
Complete the sentence about Royal Castle, Warsaw with the correct year: In ______, the surviving wall fragments, cellars, the adjacent Copper-Roof Palace and the Kubicki Arcades were registered as his…
Complete the sentence about Royal Castle, Warsaw with the correct year: In ______, the Royal Castle and surrounding Old Town became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Complete the sentence about Royal Castle, Warsaw with the correct year: The Baroque easternmost wing was designed by Gaetano Chiaveri and completed in ______.
Complete the sentence about Royal Castle, Warsaw with the correct year: In ______, the Papal Legate in Warsaw heard a case brought by the King of Poland, Casimir III the Great, against the German Teut…

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