Polish Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Wilanów Palace with the correct year: The palace, together with other elements of Warsaw Old Town, is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments, as designated on…
  2. Complete the sentence about Wilanów Palace with the correct year: Since ______, the palace has been a member of the international Association of the Royal Residences of Europe.
  3. Complete the sentence about Wilanów Palace with the correct year: In ______, the property was purchased by Polish stateswoman Elżbieta Sieniawska who enlarged the palace.
  4. Complete the sentence about Wilanów Palace with the correct year: In ______ the estate was inherited by Izabela Lubomirska, called The Blue Marquise.
  5. Complete the sentence about Łazienki Park with the correct year: In ______ King Sigismund III Vasa erected, north of the present Łazienki Park, the quadrilateral stone Ujazdów Castle.
  6. Complete the sentence about Łazienki Park with the correct year: In ______ King Stanisław II August obtained Ujazdów and extensively remodeled the gardens.
  7. Complete the sentence about Łazienki Park with the correct year: In ______, following Poland's resumption of independence, Łazienki was officially designated a public park.
  8. Complete the sentence about Łazienki Park with the correct year: To the south, King Sigismund III Vasa had a four-sided stone castle with corner towers erected in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Białowieża Forest with the correct year: The forest has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an EU Natura ______ Special Area of Conservation.
  10. Complete the sentence about Tatra Mountains with the correct year: Another mention is in the ______ document from Henry IV, wherein he referred to the Diocese of Prague with Tritri mountains.
  11. Complete the sentence about Tatra Mountains with the correct year: In ______ Belsazar Hacquet wrote that Slavs call these mountains Tatari or Tatri because there used to be Tatar hordes roaming the ar…
  12. Complete the sentence about Rysy with the correct year: The first known ascent was made in ______, by Ede Blásy and his guide Ján Ruman-Driečny Sr.
  13. Complete the sentence about Rysy with the correct year: The first winter ascent was completed in ______, by Theodor Wundt and Jakob Harvey.
  14. Complete the sentence about Giewont with the correct year: The first recorded ascent to Giewont's summit was undertaken in ______ by Franciszek Herbich and Aleksander Zawadzki.
  15. Complete the sentence about Giewont with the correct year: Mariusz Zaruski completed the first recorded winter ascent in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Oder with the correct year: The Finow Canal, first built in ______, connects the Oder and Havel.
  17. Complete the sentence about Oder with the correct year: After the completion of the more straight Oder – Havel Canal in ______, its economic relevance decreased.
  18. Complete the sentence about Narew with the correct year: On December 27, ______, Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz abolished the name Bugonarew soon after the Zegrze Reservoir was constructed.
  19. Complete the sentence about Narew with the correct year: On September 6, ______, Polish military forces attempted to use the Narew as a defense line against German attack during the German invasion of…
  20. Complete the sentence about Bieszczady Mountains with the correct year: Up until ______, about 75% of the population of the Polish part of the Bieszczadzkie Mountains was Boyko.
  21. Complete the sentence about Śnieżka with the correct year: The first historical account of an ascent to the peak is in ______, by an unknown Venetian merchant searching for precious stones.
  22. Complete the sentence about Śnieżka with the correct year: The territory including the mines were the property of the Schaffgotsch family until ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Śnieżka with the correct year: A wooden weather station was built on the mountaintop in c. ______, being the only weather station in Central Europe remaining intact after W…
  24. Complete the sentence about Śnieżka with the correct year: One side of the mountain is in the Czech Republic; the other has belonged to Poland since ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Baltic Sea with the correct year: Denmark gradually gained control over a large portion of the Baltic coast, until it lost many of its possessions after being defeated in t…
  26. Complete the sentence about Hel Peninsula with the correct year: The Hel Peninsula was part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before it was annexed by Prussia in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Hel Peninsula with the correct year: In the course of the Battle of Hel in ______, Polish forces dynamited the peninsula at one point and turned it into an island.
  28. Complete the sentence about Hel Peninsula with the correct year: Hel peninsula remained in German hands until the end of World War II, when the defending forces surrendered on 14 May ______, six days…
  29. Complete the sentence about Słowiński National Park with the correct year: The original idea of creating a preserve here was floated in ______, at a conference in Łeba with scientists from Poznań and…
  30. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Slovincian wetlands were designated a Ramsar site in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Karkonosze with the correct year: The first map occurrence of the name dates back to ______ to Klaudyán map of Bohemia, when it is referred to the mountains as "Krkonoss".
  32. Complete the sentence about Karkonosze with the correct year: After the expulsion of Germans in ______, this type of management largely came to a standstill and the mountain meadows were largely aband…
  33. Complete the sentence about Greater Poland with the correct year: For example, the Rogalin Landscape Park is famous for about ______ monumental oak trees growing on the flood plain of the river Warta…
  34. Complete the sentence about Greater Poland with the correct year: In ______, Duke Bolesław the Pious issued the Statute of Kalisz in the region.
  35. Complete the sentence about Pomerania with the correct year: Parts of Pomerania and surrounding regions have constituted a euroregion since ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Pomerania with the correct year: In ______ the line of the princes of Rügen died out, and the principality was inherited by the Griffins.
  37. Complete the sentence about Mazovia with the correct year: From ______, Mazovia was governed by a separate branch of the Piast dynasty.
  38. Complete the sentence about Mazovia with the correct year: When the last ruler of the independent Duchy of Mazovia died, it was fully incorporated into the Polish Crown in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Podlaskie Voivodeship with the correct year: In the Podlaskie Voivodeship Development Strategy adopted in ______, Białystok was included in the central functional area.
  40. Complete the sentence about Wisła with the correct year: Politically the village belonged then to the Duchy of Teschen, a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after ______ became part of the Habsburg…
  41. Complete the sentence about Wisła with the correct year: After issuing the Patent of Toleration in ______, they subsequently organized a local Lutheran parish as one of over ten in the region.
  42. Complete the sentence about Wisła with the correct year: After Revolutions of ______ in the Austrian Empire, a modern municipal division was introduced in the re-established Austrian Silesia.
  43. Complete the sentence about Westerplatte with the correct year: The first shots of the Second World War were fired at the Battle of Westerplatte which began at 04:50 AM on the 1 September, ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Westerplatte with the correct year: The resort was established on the Westerplatte peninsula around ______ which had a beach, a forested park, a seaside bath complex and he…
  45. Complete the sentence about Westerplatte with the correct year: In ______, the League of Nations granted Poland the right to install an ammunition depot near Gdańsk, and station a garrison there.
  46. Complete the sentence about Westerplatte with the correct year: Despite some objections from the Free City, this right was confirmed in ______, where the location was agreed on with the choice of West…
  47. Complete the sentence about Gdańsk Shipyard with the correct year: On 1 July ______, a state-owned enterprise called Baza Remontowa-Ostrow was established on Ostrów Island.
  48. Complete the sentence about Gdańsk Shipyard with the correct year: In December ______, Shipyard No. 3 had a workforce of 694, including 8 engineers and 28 technicians.
  49. Complete the sentence about Gdańsk Shipyard with the correct year: Launches began in ______ – smacks for the Gdańsk Institute of Sea Fishing were delivered and 53 rescue boats were built.
  50. Complete the sentence about Gdańsk Shipyard with the correct year: In February ______, Shipyard No. 3 changed its name to Northern Shipyard.
  51. Complete the sentence about Gdańsk Shipyard with the correct year: In ______, Gdańsk was the arena for events that marked the beginning of organized resistance to Communist dictatorship in eastern Eur…
  52. Complete the sentence about Wolf's Lair with the correct year: The 20 July plot, an assassination attempt against Hitler, took place at the Wolf's Lair on 20 July ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Wolf's Lair with the correct year: Hitler first arrived at the headquarters on 24 June ______, two days after Barbarossa commenced.
  54. Complete the sentence about Treblinka extermination camp with the correct year: Gassing operations at Treblinka II ended in October ______ following a revolt by the prisoners in early August.
  55. Complete the sentence about Majdanek concentration camp with the correct year: After the camp's liberation in July ______, the site was formally protected by the Soviet Union.
  56. Complete the sentence about Kraków Old Town with the correct year: The episcopal bishopric was awarded to Kraków in ______ and around that time, it became the residence of Polish kings for centuries t…
  57. Complete the sentence about Kraków Cloth Hall with the correct year: By the time of the architectural restoration proposed for the cloth hall in ______ under Austrian rule, much of the historic city c…
  58. Complete the sentence about Kraków Cloth Hall with the correct year: In the past, balls were held here, most notably after Prince Józef Poniatowski had briefly liberated the city from the Austrians in…
  59. Complete the sentence about St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków with the correct year: In ______, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Historic Centre of Kraków.
  60. Complete the sentence about St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków with the correct year: The church is familiar to many English-speaking readers from the ______ book The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P.
  61. Complete the sentence about St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków with the correct year: According to chronicler Jan Długosz, Saint Mary's Basilica in the Main Square in Kraków was founded in ______–22 by the B…
  62. Complete the sentence about Wieliczka Salt Mine with the correct year: The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until ______, as one of the world's ol…
  63. Complete the sentence about Wieliczka Salt Mine with the correct year: The first documentation of the mine dates from ______, when Casimir I granted a privilege.
  64. Complete the sentence about Jasna Góra Monastery with the correct year: Jasna Góra Monastery was founded in ______ by Pauline monks who came from Hungary at the invitation of Vladislaus II of Opole.
  65. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the icon of the Virgin Mary was crowned by the decision of Pope Clement XI.
  66. Complete the sentence about Jasna Góra Monastery with the correct year: In ______, during the Congress Poland period, thieves broke into the monastery and stole millions in rubles worth of jewels, pea…
  67. Complete the sentence about Toruń Old Town with the correct year: As the town quickly grew, the Toruń New Town developed from ______ east of the Old Town and north of the castle.
  68. Complete the sentence about Poznań Town Hall with the correct year: In ______ Poznań suffered a major fire, which seriously damaged the town hall.
  69. Complete the sentence about Poznań Town Hall with the correct year: In ______ the city council commissioned Giovanni Battista di Quadro to carry out major repairs.
  70. Complete the sentence about Palace of Culture and Science with the correct year: The agreement to construct the tower was signed between the governments of the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet…
  71. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Upon its completion in ______, it was dedicated to Joseph Stalin.
  72. Complete the sentence about Palace of Culture and Science with the correct year: Shortly after opening, many visiting dignitaries toured the Palace, and the building hosted the 5th World Festival of Y…
  73. Complete the sentence about European bison with the correct year: In ______, the International Union for Conservation of Nature classified the reintroduced European bison as an endangered species, no…
  74. Complete the sentence about European bison with the correct year: European bison were first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The latter one was recognized by the FCI as the "Ogar Polski" in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Konik with the correct year: In ______, Vetulani opened a Konik reserve in the Białowieża Forest.
  77. Complete the sentence about Elk with the correct year: Richard Hakluyt refers to North America as a "lande... full of many beastes, as redd dere" in his ______ Discourse Concerning Western Planting.
  78. Complete the sentence about Elk with the correct year: Similarly, John Smith's ______ A Description of New England referred to red deer.
  79. Complete the sentence about White stork with the correct year: The asiatica population of about ______ birds is restricted to a region in central Asia between the Aral Sea and Xinjiang in western Chin…
  80. Complete the sentence about White stork with the correct year: The Xinjiang population is believed to have become extinct around ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Białowieża National Park with the correct year: The inspectorate was transformed into the National Park in Białowieża on 11 August ______ by the Second Polish Republic.
  82. Complete the sentence about Białowieża National Park with the correct year: The People's Republic of Poland reopened the Białowieża National Park in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Biebrza National Park with the correct year: The largest of Poland's 23 national parks, the Biebrza National Park was created on 9 September ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Biebrza National Park with the correct year: In ______ the park was designated as a wetland site of worldwide significance and is under the protection of the Ramsar Convent…
  85. Complete the sentence about Biskupin with the correct year: After the Polish local government reforms of ______, Biskupin was granted the status of an independent institution known as the Archeologica…
  86. Complete the sentence about Biskupin with the correct year: When the Germans occupied Poland in the autumn of ______, Biskupin was renamed "Urstädt".
  87. Complete the sentence about Biskupin with the correct year: Excavations were resumed by Polish archaeologists after the war and continued until ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Kruszwica with the correct year: Władysław Kostuj, who organized the local branch of the Secret Teaching Organization, was arrested in ______ and murdered by the German gen…
  89. Complete the sentence about Pszczyna with the correct year: Casimir II the Just ceded the land to Mieszko Plątonogi, another Piast duke, of the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, about ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Pszczyna with the correct year: In ______, he was forced to acknowledge sovereignty of John, King of Bohemia.
  91. Complete the sentence about Pszczyna with the correct year: After Leszek died childless in ______, his lands passed down to his brother-in-law, Nicholas II, Duke of Opava, of the Czech Premyslid royal…
  92. Complete the sentence about Pszczyna with the correct year: In ______, Pszczyna was attacked by the Hussites, who laid siege to the castle but were eventually repulsed.
  93. Complete the sentence about Pszczyna with the correct year: Helena of Lithuania outlived John II, and reigned until ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Łańcut Castle with the correct year: From the 17th century, the property was in the hands of the Lubomirski family, and then the Potocki family until ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Kórnik Castle with the correct year: Shortly before his death in ______, the childless count willed the castle, along with an extensive art collection and the Kórnik Arbore…
  96. Complete the sentence about Książ Castle with the correct year: A first fortification at the site was destroyed by the Bohemian forces of King Ottokar II in ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Książ Castle with the correct year: In ______ Hans von Schellendorf obtained the castle from the Bohemian Crown.
  98. Complete the sentence about Książ Castle with the correct year: Stein granted Frederick von Hochberg the estates, his descendant Konrad I von Hochberg obtaining the castle hill in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Czocha Castle with the correct year: In ______ castle was handed over to Konrad von Wallhausen, Bishop of Meissen.
  100. Complete the sentence about Czocha Castle with the correct year: In ______ the complex became part of the dukedom of Henry I of Jawor.

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