The terms przed Chrystusem / po Chrystusie ( before Christ / after Christ ) are possible but nearly never used in contemporary Poland.

Lithuania's close association with Poland had thus begun, and lasted, in one form or another, for nearly five centuries.

Poles and ethnic Jews were imprisoned in nearly every camp of the extensive concentration camp system in German-occupied Poland and the Reich.

Poland is one of the most linguistically homogeneous European countries ; nearly 97 % of Poland's citizens declare Polish as their mother tongue.

Most people live in Poland ( 38 million ), followed by the Czech Republic ( nearly 11 million ), Hungary ( nearly 10 million ) and Slovakia ( 5. 5 million ).

In 1938, the Western Allies ( United Kingdom, France, Poland and British Dominions ) had a 30 percent larger population and a 30 percent higher gross domestic product than the European Axis ( Germany and Italy ); if colonies are included, it then gives the Allies more than a 5: 1 advantage in population and nearly 2: 1 advantage in GDP.

* The city of Kraków is rebuilt by Boleslaus V of Poland after being nearly destroyed in the Tatar invasions in 1241.

In 1138, the kingdom of Poland, which had been growing in strength under the rule of the Piast dynasty, encountered an obstacle which impeded its development for nearly two hundred years.

Through the sixteenth century, nearly half of all noble coats of arms in Poland had a field gules with one or more argent charges on them.

Poland: In Poland, nearly every major town has a street or square named for Kościuszko.

After the expulsion of the Germans from Silesia, German Silesian culture and language nearly died out when most of Silesia became part of Poland in 1945.

However, the Poles feared Joseph Stalin's Communism nearly as much as they feared Hitler's Nazism, and throughout 1939 they refused to agree to any arrangement which would allow Soviet troops to freely enter Poland.

At the beginning of World War II, nearly a quarter of the pre-war Polish areas were annexed by Nazi Germany and placed directly under German civil administration, while the rest of Nazi occupied Poland was named as General Government.

According to the last official census in Poland in 2011, about 509, 000 people declared Silesian as their native language ( in census 2002, about 60, 000 ), and in the censuses in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, nearly 0. 9 million people declared Silesian nationality.

Salt refining in Neusalz nearly collapsed during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), while recovery was hampered by the salt trade of Brandenburg and Poland afterwards.

On May 18, 1792, without a declaration of war, an army of nearly 90, 000 Russian troops crossed the border into Poland.

** Low Prussian ( spoken by minorities around Gdańsk in northern Poland ; nearly extinct since 1945, considered to include Plauttdietsch by some observers )

Of these, the territory ceded to Poland amounted to nearly, and, coupled with the establishment of Danzig as an independent state, which was also imposed upon Germany, this loss had the effect of cutting off East Prussia from the main territory of Germany.

The United Kingdom took in nearly 10, 000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig.

However, some patients with Poland ’ s Syndrome may also be lacking these muscles, which make these actions nearly impossible.

They grossly underestimated their opponent, thinking that Poland, having been nearly undefeated in battle for over a hundred years, would be easily able to parry any attacks of the Scandinavians.

From six to nine million additional Germans would be evicted, though most would have fled, and Poland would receive far more from Germany than the poor territories, including the great Pripet Marshes, which she lost to Russia.

In Poland, anyone who cumulatively spent six months or longer between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996 in the UK, Ireland or France is permanently barred from donating.

There were seventy-four Dominican female houses in Germany, forty-two in Italy, nine in France, eight in Spain, six in Bohemia, three in Hungary, and three in Poland.

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

Presently, six Member States ( Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom ) have adopted such provisions.

The Greek historian Aristotle Kaillis wrote that it was Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler together with his insistence that the Western powers would in the end not go to war for Poland that was the most important reason why Hitler did not cancel Fall Weiß all together instead of postponing " X-day " for six days.

Following the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, the nominally neutral Soviet Union fully or partially invaded, occupied and annexed territories of its six European neighbours, including Poland.

In 1795, six years before his death, Krasicki was elevated to Archbishop of Gniezno ( thus, to Primate of Poland ).

Kolbe left Poland for Japan in 1930, spending six years there.

The candidacies of Helsinki, Finland ; Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia ; Zakopane, Poland ; and Klagenfurt, Austria were dropped by the Selection College after all six candidate cities made their candidate presentations.

In Poland, for example, it was commonly a few days per year per household in the 13th century ; one day per week per household in the 14th century ; four days per week per household in the 17th century and six days per week per household in the 18th century.

Raging Silence, produced by Richard Dodd and released in May 1989, was followed by a return to the Soviet Union, concerts in Poland, East Berlin, six dates in Brazil and another British tour.

Born to a Jewish family in Kraków, Poland, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian province of Galicia, Max Fleischer was the second oldest of six children of an Austrian immigrant tailor, William Fleischer.

During the Chmielnicki massacres in Poland, a Jewish orphan girl named Sarah, about six years old, was found by Christians and sent to a convent for care.

Świętokrzyskie Province is bounded by six other voivodeships: Masovian to the north, Lublin to the east, Subcarpathian to the southeast, Lesser Poland to the south, Silesian to the southwest, and Łódź to the northwest.

Instead, Gamelin informed Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły that 1 / 2 of his divisions were in contact with the enemy, and that French advances had forced the Wehrmacht to withdraw at least six divisions from Poland.

It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Germany ( who used captured examples ) during and after World War I.

Ludendorff was born in Kruszewnia near Posen, Province of Posen ( now Poznań County, Poland ), the third of six children of August Wilhelm Ludendorff ( 1833 – 1905 ), descended from Pomeranian merchants, who had become a landowner in a modest sort of way, and who held a commission in the reserve cavalry.

The icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa has been intimately associated with Poland for the past six hundred years.

The six biggest cities of Poland ( as for January 1, 1939 ) were Warsaw, Łódź, Lwów, Poznań, Kraków and Vilnius ( Wilno ).

Łódź Voivodeship is bordered by six other voivodeships: Masovian to the north and east, Świętokrzyskie to the south-east, Silesian to the south, Opole to the south-west, Greater Poland to the west, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian for a short stretch to the north.

On the 12th of June 1941 Representatives of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and of the exiled governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the general de Gaulle of France met and signed the Declaration of St. James ' Palace which was the first of six treaties signed that established the United Nations and compose the Charter of the United Nations.

Of all the countries involved in the war, Poland lost the highest percentage of its citizens: over six million perished, over three million of them Polish Catholics and the remaining three million were Polish Jews.

In 1925 the Council of the League of Nations allowed Poland to keep 88 soldiers on Westerplatte, which the Poles had secretly increased to 176 men and six officers by September 1939.