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1 day ago · Warsaw, [a] officially the Capital City of Warsaw, [7] [b] is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in ...
1 day ago · Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanized country ...
1 day ago · t. e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in ...
1 day ago · Łódź [a] is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. [8] As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, [1] making it the country's fourth largest city . Łódź first appears in records in 14th-century.
1 day ago · Count Olenski, estranged husband of Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton 's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) Pan Tadeusz, poetic distillation of Polish patriotism and nostalgia. Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, in HBO 's The Wire, went from police officer to school teacher. Officer Eddie Pulaski in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
1 day ago · Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [a] and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth [b] or the First Polish Republic, [c] [10] was a bi- confederal [11] state, sometimes called a federation, [12] of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common ...
1 day ago · Peninsular War. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
