Construction of the Poznań Citadel is conventionally agreed to have commenced on 23 June 1828 – the same time work […]
Among his deeds for the benefit of the town (which include the rebuilding of the Assumption of Mary Basilica, construction […]
The 4th German Reserve Airborne Unit was stationed at Ławica airport outside Poznań when the Wielkopolska Uprising broke out at […]
The Soviet offensive and declaring Poznań a fortress Between 12th and 14th January 1945 Soviets, using The First Ukrainian Front […]
The idea of a capital as we know it did not exist in the middle ages. There were no cities, […]
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Poland’s greatest Romantic period composer, is not just a famous Pole, but a citizen of the world. […]
Poland was a tolerant country during the 15th and 16th centuries and it was only during the reigns of Zygmunt […]
Michał Drzymała (1857-1937) has been a Polish national hero for decades but, at the same time, he is a particularly […]
The office of Governor was instituted in the Grand Duchy of Poznań (part of the Prussian partition) after the Congress […]
During the interwar period (1918-1939), Poznań was the country’s main Germanic studies centre and the power base of the Polish […]
The Hohenzollern Monarchy was clearly facing defeat when the Emperor Napoleon and Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout crushed the Prussian army at […]
Maria Leszczyńska, wife of King Louis XV, took her place on the French throne in the 18th century, one of […]
POZNAŃ Poznań, the capital town of the region, the Province and the Archdiocese, is situated on the Warta. Poznań is […]
In the very centre of the city, a few steps away from the busy and bustling Old Market Square, a […]
The military doctrine that held sway in Europe during the interwar years mandated that any area which was expected to […]
POZNAŃ Situated on the Warta River, Poznań is the capital of the region, Province and archdiocese, and an important point […]