The mazurka, expressing the idea that the nation of Poland, despite lack of political independence, had not disappeared as long as the Polish people were still alive and fighting in its name, soon became one of the most popular patriotic songs in Poland.

Polish dance music, especially the mazurka and polonaise, were popularized by Frederick Chopin, and they soon spread across Europe and elsewhere.

The mazurka ( in Polish, mazurek ) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with accent on the second or third beat.

There are many Polish versions of the mazurek but the most notable one is the mazurka.

In Brazil, the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote a mazurka for classical guitar in a similar musical style to Polish mazurkas.

Unlike the Polish mazurek, which may have an accent on the second or third beat of a bar, the Irish mazurka ( masúrca in the Irish language ) is consistently accented on the second beat, giving it a unique feel.

Zouk means " party " or " festival " in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the mazurka, that was introduced to the French Caribbean in the 19th Century.

The town was being taken over by Polish rebeliants several times e. g. in September 1794 when soldiers of corps of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski entered the town ( Jan Henryk Dąbrowski is the main of few persons mentioned in Polish national anthem-so called Dąbrowski's mazurka ).

" After Chopin, Tansman may be the leading proponent of traditional Polish forms such as the polonaise and the mazurka ; they were inspired by and often written in homage to Chopin.

Anyway, in this part of the composition he makes fun of Frédéric Chopin's Funeral March from his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor ( by the way calling it a " famous " mazurka by Schubert – now, there is no " famous " mazurka by Schubert: Schubert composed many dances, but no mazurkas – mazurkas are Polish dances: Chopin had been the most famous Polish composer that ever lived in Paris, and he had particularly favoured the composition of mazurkas ... that's the link Satie makes ).

The " Anthem of the Polish Legions in Italy ", written to the tune of a mazurka between 15 and 21 July 1797, was very popular with the legionnaires.

We hear the rhythm of the Polish mazurka, though in a brilliantly stylized setting.

One of the most visibly " Polish " aspects of his music is in the forms he uses, including dances popular among upper classes such as polonaise and mazurka, and folk tunes and dances such as kujawiak and krakowiak.

In his mass O glorioso domina and one of his instrumental canzonas, Mielczewski quotes popular Polish tunes ; the latter is notable for being the earliest documented use of the mazurka in classical music.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

There is some documentary proof that the Romans named the hot sulfur springs of Aachen Aquis-Granum, and indeed to this day the city is known in Italian as Aquisgrana, in Spanish as Aquisgrán and in Polish as Akwizgran.

* 1943 – World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

* 1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

The accusative case existed in Proto-Indo-European and is present in some Indo-European languages ( including Latin, Sanskrit, Greek, German, Polish, Swedish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian ), in the Uralic languages, in Altaic languages, and in Semitic languages ( such as Classical Arabic ).

The details of the agreement are not known ; however, it is known that Gediminas released all Polish prisoners, numbering some 25, 000.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

Russian is the most widely used language by Belarusians on the Internet, followed by Belarusian, English, and Polish.

The Air Force is equipped with MiG-29, Su-27 fighters, Su-24, Su-25 bombers, as well as Mi-8, Mi-24, and the Polish built Mi-2 attack helicopters.

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

The number of Polish troops is uncertain.

The number of k-combinations from a given set S of n elements is often denoted in elementary combinatorics texts by C ( n, k ), or by a variation such as,, or even ( the latter form is standard in French, Russian, and Polish texts ).

Czech is similar to and mutually intelligible with Slovak and, to a lesser extent, with Polish and Sorbian.

The biggest green area in Chojnów is small forest Park Piastowski ( Piast's Park ), named after the Polish Piast dynasty.

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

Chicago is also a prominent center of the Polish Cathedral style of church architecture.

Another is the Maxwell Street Polish, a grilled or deep-fried kielbasa — on a hot dog roll, topped with grilled onions, yellow mustard, and hot sport peppers.

However the city of " Polish Cathedrals " is rife with numerous historic synagogues, as well as the noteworthy sacred spaces of other religions.

Casimir is the only Polish king who both received and kept the title of the Great in Polish history ( Bolesław I Chrobry is also called the Great, but his title Chrobry ( Valiant ) is now more common ).

Some of them refused to fight against blacks, supporting the principles of liberty ; also, a few Poles ( around 100 ) actually joined the rebels ( Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski was one of the Polish generals ).

Up until 1945, the area of the current Polish voivodeship was actually a part of the Prussian province of ‘ Upper Silesia ’.

Overall, during the period from 1795 until reestablishment of Poland's sovereignty in 1918, little power was actually held by any Polish legislative body and the occupying powers of Russia, Prussia ( later united Germany ) and Austria-Hungary propagated legislation for their own respective formerly-Polish territories at a national level.

His political goals were twofold ; first – to strengthen the Polish border on the Noteć river line, second – to subjugate Pomerania with Polish political overlordship but without actually incorporating it into the country with the exception of Gdansk Pomerania and a southern belt north of river Noteć which were to be absorbed by Poland.

In his 1605 thesis, the Polish historian Laurentius Suslyga was the first to suggest that Christ was actually born around 4 BC, deriving this from the chronology of Herod the Great, his son Philip the Tetrarch, and the daughter of Augustus, Julia.

General Thielmann then led eight Saxon and two Polish cavalry squadrons against the back of the redoubt, while officers and sergeants of his command actually forced their horses through the redoubt's embrasures, sowing confusion and allowing the French cavalry and infantry to take the position.

He said in 1999, " My parents are Polish and the name was actually Krul.

He consulted the most learned of the Greek prelates abroad ; invited them to a consultation at Moscow ; and finally the scholars of Constantinople and Kiev convinced the eyes of Nikon that the Muscovite service-books were heterodox, and that the icons actually in use had very widely departed from the ancient Constantinopolitan models, being for the most part imbued with the Polish baroque influences.

However, Polish military intelligence had decrypted the Red Army's radio messages, and Tukhachevsky was actually falling into a trap set by Piłsudski and his Chief of Staff, Tadeusz Rozwadowski.

Vartan has said about his French background that " The funny thing is I'm actually a Polish Jew who happens to be born in France.

However, still others suggest that the Śmigus tradition is actually simply a youthful recapitulation of a Good Friday Polish tradition, in which parents wake their children with switches from twigs, saying the words of a Lenten prayer " God's wounds " – " Boże rany ".

In Polish pierogi is actually the plural, pieróg being singular.

Most of the dubbed, localized versions of the cartoon used voices similar to the original Claw's ( sometimes, e. g. in the Polish version, even deeper ), but in some countries, the Doctor's voice was quite different ( e. g. the Greek version, which adds a robot-like effect to his voice, which was a trademark of the dubbing studio ) ; in at least one dubbed version, he was actually speaking in a rather high pitched tone, much like a comical impotent villain.

With Polish culture becoming one of the primary centers of resistance to the Russian Empire, Polonization in some regions actually strengthened in response to official policies of Russification.

However, Minsk was occupied by the Polish army at the time, and the university was actually established in 1921 in Minsk.

Similarly, he made multiple errors in his use of Russian names, typically adding the ending of "- ski " to them, something which is actually the Polish word for " son ", rather than Russian, where the equivalent term is "- vitch ".

There are three possible hypotheses over his identity: first, that there actually was a Slavic prince of that name ; second, that this was the name given by saga authors to any Slavic prince ; third, that he is a compound person, combining two Polish rulers: Mieszko I of Poland and Boleslaw I of Poland.

*-ckas ( Lithuanian ) actually Lithuanianized version of the Polish and Belarusian-cki

*-ckis ( Latvian ) actually Latvianized version of the Polish and Belarusian-cki

*-skas ( Lithuanian ) actually Lithuanianized version of the Polish and Belarusian-ski

*-skis ( Latvian ) actually Latvianized version of the Polish and Belarusian-ski

In 1956, maintenance of Okęcie was transferred from LOT Polish Airlines to state administration, then later in 1959, on the government's initiative, a decision was made to reconstruct the airport's man terminal, this however, did not actually take place until 1964.

Trachtenburg, literally " a mountain of thoughts " ( in German and Yiddish ), is actually the former German name of a town in Silesia now called by the Polish name Żmigród, where Jews were a significant part of the population until the Second World War and the Holocaust.