Construction of the Poznań Citadel is conventionally agreed to have commenced on 23 June 1828 – the same time work […]
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Poland’s greatest Romantic period composer, is not just a famous Pole, but a citizen of the world. […]
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 […]
The Hohenzollern Monarchy was clearly facing defeat when the Emperor Napoleon and Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout crushed the Prussian army at […]
Gentry of Greater Poland Gentry is a society rank wchich continues a tradition of knighthood and nobility wchich was finally […]
Wielkopolska spent the years 1793-1919 under the partitions except for a short interregnum in the Duchy of Warsaw. Once the […]
The Kórnik Library is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences, one of the most important scientific institutions in the […]
The nations of early 19th-century Europe were either fighting alongside Napoleon or as part of a multi-national coalition opposing him. […]
Wielkopolska was assigned to the Prussian state in 1793 as a result of the determinations of the second partition agreement. […]
Julius von Minutoli was born in Berlin in 1805. He was the son of Heinrich, a Prussian General from an […]
Those pushing for organic work were determined to win an uprising involving the internal consolidation of Polish communities when conditions […]
POZNAŃ Poznań, the capital town of the region, the Province and the Archdiocese, is situated on the Warta. Poznań is […]
POZNAŃ The city lies on the Warta river. It is the capital of Wielkopolska Voivodeship and the see of the […]
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 […]