Polish Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Czocha Castle with the correct year: In ______, the castle was purchased by Jan Hartwig von Uechtritz, influential courtier of Augustus II the Strong.
  2. Complete the sentence about Krasiczyn with the correct year: When a postoffice was opened in ______, the town was in the Przemyśl Bezirkshauptmannschaft.
  3. Complete the sentence about Baranów Sandomierski with the correct year: The settlement or the gord of Baranów was first mentioned in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Baranów Sandomierski with the correct year: In ______ the town was sold to Dymitr Wiśniowiecki, later on it belonged to the Lubomirski family, and the Potocki family.
  5. Complete the sentence about Baranów Sandomierski with the correct year: Furthermore, frequent Vistula floods caused extensive damages, and on 24 August ______ almost the whole town burned in a fire.
  6. Complete the sentence about Frombork with the correct year: In ______ at Catania, Emperor Frederick II declared Prussia directly subordinate to the church and Holy Roman Empire.
  7. Complete the sentence about Frombork with the correct year: The village was first mentioned in a ______ document signed by Bishop Heinrich Fleming.
  8. Complete the sentence about Frombork with the correct year: On 8 July ______, Bishop Eberhard of Neisse granted the town Lübeck city rights, as used by many member cities of the Hanseatic League.
  9. Complete the sentence about Hel, Poland with the correct year: The Kashubian village of Hel was first mentioned in ______ as a centre of herring trade area named Gellen.
  10. Complete the sentence about Hel, Poland with the correct year: In one of the Danish chronicles of ______ it is mentioned that a damaged ship of King Valdemar II the Victorious was set ashore on an "Is…
  11. Complete the sentence about Hel, Poland with the correct year: The privileges were again confirmed in ______ when the town came under the rule of the Teutonic Order.
  12. Complete the sentence about Hel, Poland with the correct year: In ______ St Peter's Church was built in the town, devoted to the patron saint of fishermen.
  13. Complete the sentence about Hel, Poland with the correct year: The re-incorporation was confirmed in the ______ peace treaty, when the Teutonic Knights renounced any claims to the area.
  14. Complete the sentence about Łeba with the correct year: The Pomerelian settlement of Łeba was first mentioned in a ______ document of Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania.
  15. Complete the sentence about Łeba with the correct year: With the First Partition of Poland in ______, Łeba was incorporated into Prussia.
  16. Complete the sentence about Świnoujście with the correct year: Since ______, Świnoujście has been a city with powiat rights, within West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
  17. Complete the sentence about Kołobrzeg with the correct year: In ______, when the city was part of Poland, it became the seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg, one of five oldest Polish dioceses.
  18. Complete the sentence about Kołobrzeg with the correct year: In the modern age, it passed to Brandenburg and Prussia, and withstood a Polish-French siege in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Ustka with the correct year: On August 1, ______, a blaze destroyed 18 houses which, however, were soon re-built.
  20. Complete the sentence about Karpacz with the correct year: Since ______, the town has been hosting the annual international Economic Forum.
  21. Complete the sentence about Karpacz with the correct year: The region belonged politically to the Bohemian crown at that time; from ______ it fell under Habsburg rule as part of the Kingdom of Bohemia…
  22. Complete the sentence about Szklarska Poręba with the correct year: In ______ several Czech Protestants moved to the village and greatly contributed to its development.
  23. Complete the sentence about Szklarska Poręba with the correct year: In ______ Franz Pohl, son-in-law of the last Preußler, persuaded Count Schaffgotsch to establish a new glass factory in Schreiberhau…
  24. Complete the sentence about Nowy Sącz with the correct year: Nowy Sącz was founded on 8 November ______ by the Polish and Bohemian ruler Wenceslaus II, on the site of an earlier village named Kamienic…
  25. Complete the sentence about Nowy Sącz with the correct year: The town was further elevated in ______ when Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki promoted a local church to the status of a Collegiate.
  26. Complete the sentence about Przemyśl with the correct year: Around the year ______, Przemyśl again returned to Poland, after Bolesław II the Generous retook the town and temporarily made it his reside…
  27. Complete the sentence about Przemyśl with the correct year: In ______, the town became the capital of a semi-independent Principality of Peremyshl under the lordship of Kievan Rus'.
  28. Complete the sentence about Lwów with the correct year: From ______, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland.
  29. Complete the sentence about Lwów with the correct year: In ______, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg semiautonomous Polish-dominated Kingdom of Galicia a…
  30. Complete the sentence about Lwów with the correct year: After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in ______, Lwów was annexed by the Soviet Union.
  31. Complete the sentence about Lwów with the correct year: In February ______, the city became a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, having lost an estimated 80-90% of its prewar population.
  32. Complete the sentence about Chełm with the correct year: According to a local legend, Vladimir the Great built the first stone castle there in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Siedlce with the correct year: In ______, local nobleman Daniel Siedlecki erected a new village of the same name nearby, together with a church.
  34. Complete the sentence about Siedlce with the correct year: In ______ the town was granted Magdeburg rights by King Sigismund the Old.
  35. Complete the sentence about Piotrków Trybunalski with the correct year: The first record of Piotrków is in a document issued in ______ by Polish monarch Leszek I the White, where there is a mention of…
  36. Complete the sentence about Konin with the correct year: In ______, the settlement was plundered and burnt by the Teutonic Knights.
  37. Complete the sentence about Leszno with the correct year: In ______ Leszno became a town by a privilege according to Magdeburg Law granted by King Sigismund I of Poland.
  38. Complete the sentence about Leszno with the correct year: In ______, Rafał Leszczyński founded a school, and his son Andrzej Leszczyński then transformed it into a humanities gymnasium.
  39. Complete the sentence about Leszno with the correct year: In ______, Leszno was vested with further privileges by King Sigismund III Vasa, who made it equal with the most important cities of Poland su…
  40. Complete the sentence about Słupsk with the correct year: According to the peace treaty of ______, Słupsk became part of Brandenburg-Prussia.
  41. Complete the sentence about Słupsk with the correct year: In ______, it was incorporated into the newly formed Prussian Province of Pomerania.
  42. Complete the sentence about Suwałki with the correct year: In ______ King Augustus II the Strong granted the village a privilege to organize fairs and markets.
  43. Complete the sentence about Łomża with the correct year: In ______ the town was granted an exemption from the transit tax on Narew River contributing to its further development.
  44. Complete the sentence about Łomża with the correct year: In ______ the Jesuits founded a Jesuit College, which as today's I Liceum Ogólnokształcące is among the oldest high schools in Poland.
  45. Complete the sentence about Łomża with the correct year: As a result of the Partitions of Poland Łomża was annexed by Prussia in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Łomża with the correct year: In ______ it was included in the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, within which it was the seat of the Łomża Department.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ostrołęka with the correct year: In ______, the Duchy was incorporated directly into the Polish Kingdom.
  48. Complete the sentence about Krosno with the correct year: The privilege granted by King Casimir IV Jagiellon in ______ shows that Krosno, next to Kraków and Lwów, was the third town in the Kingdom of…
  49. Complete the sentence about Jelenia Góra with the correct year: The city's history dates back to as early as the 10th century, but the settlement was granted town rights under Polish rule in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Jelenia Góra with the correct year: Spared from damage during World War II, the German-speaking population of the city was expelled following ______ and the city was repopu…
  51. Complete the sentence about Jelenia Góra with the correct year: From this Middle High German form the name Hirschberg evolved and remained the official designation until ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Racibórz with the correct year: From ______ onwards, Duke Mieszko ruled over whole Upper Silesia as Duke of Opole and Racibórz.
  53. Complete the sentence about Racibórz with the correct year: Mieszko's son and successor Duke Casimir I granted the Racibórz citizens municipal privileges in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Pruszków with the correct year: Pruszków was incorporated as a town in ______ during World War I, although the village was first mentioned in chronicles in the 15th century…
  55. Complete the sentence about Pruszków with the correct year: A large psychiatric hospital opened in the outlying village of Tworki in ______ and is still operating to this day.
  56. Complete the sentence about Gdańsk Old Town with the correct year: The area was impoverished, and it suffered from significant destruction during the siege of Danzig in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Neptune's Fountain, Gdańsk with the correct year: In ______ a now unknown well was located by the entrance of Artus Court, which may have had metal decorative pieces.
  58. Complete the sentence about Neptune's Fountain, Gdańsk with the correct year: The sculpture was cast from bronze in ______ in the town casting guild by Gerdt Benning.
  59. Complete the sentence about Neptune's Fountain, Gdańsk with the correct year: In ______ the fountain was encompassed by a fence decorated with gilded Polish Eagles.
  60. Complete the sentence about Neptune's Fountain, Gdańsk with the correct year: The inauguration of the fountain's operation took place on March 23, ______.
  61. Which place completes this sentence about Warsaw? The city rose to prominence after 1596, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from ______.
  62. Which place completes this sentence about Warsaw? Warsaw surpassed ______ as Poland's most populous city by the 18th century.
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Gdynia? With a population of c. 239,000, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after ______.
  64. Which place completes this sentence about Gdynia? In 1970, protests in and around Gdynia contributed to the rise of the Solidarity movement in nearby ______.
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Sosnowiec? During the Napoleonic Wars, it became part of the Duchy of ______ in 1807 and later, of Congress Poland ruled by the namiestniks of the Russian Emp…
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Rzeszów? In the 16th century, Rzeszów had a connection with ______ and the Baltic Sea.
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Gorzów Wielkopolski? The name appeared in a compendium called Ancient Poland according to its history, geography and statistics published in 1848 by Samuel Or…
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Wałbrzych? The earliest documented mention of the settlement appears 1305 in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis, a tithe and revenue register o…
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Chorzów? Administratively, Chorzów is in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, previously ______ Voivodeship, and before then, the Silesian Voivodeship.
  70. Which place completes this sentence about Koszalin? Located on the main highway and railroad between the Tricity and ______, Koszalin is an important regional industrial, cultural and educational cent…
  71. Which place completes this sentence about Zamość? Following the Austro-Polish War of 1809 the city was incorporated into the short-lived Polish Duchy of ______.
  72. Which place completes this sentence about Kazimierz Dolny? In 1181, Prince Casimir II the Just handed the settlement to Norbertine nuns from ______’s district of Zwierzyniec.
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Wieliczka? The importance of mining deposits arose after the capital of Poland was moved from Gniezno to ______ by Casimir I the Restorer in the 11th century.
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Wieliczka? In the year 1289, Henryk IV Probus, then Lord of ______, issued a document authorising brothers Jescho and Isenbold to expand the town.
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Wawel Castle? In 1978, Wawel was declared the first World Heritage Site as part of the Historic Centre of ______.
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Royal Castle, Warsaw? In 1339, the Papal Legate in ______ heard a case brought by the King of Poland, Casimir III the Great, against the German Teutonic Order…
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Wilanów Palace? The palace, together with other elements of ______ Old Town, is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments, as designated on 16 Sept…
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Oder? Located near the mouth of the river, ______ became one of the main cities and ports of the Pomerania region and the entire southern coast of the Baltic…
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Silesia? The largest city and Lower Silesia's capital is ______; the historic capital of Upper Silesia is Opole.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Podlaskie Voivodeship? In the Podlaskie Voivodeship Development Strategy adopted in 2000, ______ was included in the central functional area.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Westerplatte? In 1921, the League of Nations granted Poland the right to install an ammunition depot near ______, and station a garrison there.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Toruń Old Town? As the town quickly grew, the ______ New Town developed from 1264 east of the Old Town and north of the castle.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Toruń Old Town? The ______ Castle is located between the Old and New Towns at their southern boundary.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Częstochowa? Every year, millions of pilgrims from all over the world come to ______ to see it.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Częstochowa? According to archaeological findings, the first medieval settlement in the location of ______ was established in the late 11th century within Pia…
  86. Which place completes the sentence? From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the ______ Voivodeship.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Świnoujście? The city lies in the geographic region of Pomerania and had a population of 38,728 in 2024. Świnoujście is one of the most important areas of the…
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Chełm? Chełm is a city in eastern Poland in the ______ Voivodeship with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Konin? In 2021 the population of the city was 71,427, making it the fourth-largest city in Greater Poland after ______, Kalisz and Piła.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Leszno? Leszno was a private town, administratively located in the Wschowa County in the ______ Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

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