* Lake Malta in Poznań hosted the World Rowing Championships in 2009 and has previously hosted some regattas in the Rowing World Cup.

Greiser ’ s Poznań was considered the Germanised city par excellence and on 3 August 1943 he hosted a national gathering of Gauleiter and senior Nazis, including Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler.

POL-34 was created as a result of an experiment hosted in Poznań in 1997 during a scientific conference in which the representatives of all major Polish MAN's took part.

In 1921 Poznań first hosted trade fairs, which from 1925 became the Poznań International Fairs.

Furthermore, Poznań had very low unemployment rate of 2. 3 % as of May 2009.

* KKS Lech Poznań – men's football team ( Polish Champion: 1983, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2010 ; Polish Cup winner 1982, 1984, 1988, 2004, 2009 ; Polish SuperCup winner 1990, 1992, 2004, 2009 )

* S. M. Jankowski, Karski: raporty tajnego emisariusza, Poznań 2009.

* 2009 XVI International Sculpture Triennial – Crisis of the Genre, " Zamek " Culture Center, Poznań

Środa Wielkopolska () is a town in central Poland, about southeast of Poznań, with 22, 001 inhabitants ( 2009 ).

* 2009, Lech Poznań

Poznań was a candidate city for European Capital of Culture in 2016 and is bidding to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Many Western European companies have established their Polish headquarters in Poznań, or in the nearby towns of Tarnowo Podgórne and Swarzędz.

Members of European Parliament elected from Poznań constituency:

* link = European route E30-: Cork – Waterford – Wexford – Rosslare … Fishguard – Swansea – Bridgend-Cardiff – Newport – Bristol – London – Colchester – Ipswich – Felixstowe … Hook of Holland – The Hague – Gouda – Utrecht – Amersfoort – Oldenzaal – Osnabrück – Bad Oeynhausen – Hanover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg – Berlin – Świebodzin – Poznań – Warsaw – Brest – Minsk – Smolensk – Moscow – Ryazan – Penza – Samara – Ufa – Chelyabinsk – Kurgan – Ishim – Omsk

The university was refounded in 1991 with a European emphasis as the Viadrina European University, in close cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań ; they jointly run the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice.

These include EuroCity and EuroNight trains operating between Western and Eastern European destinations, most notably the EN Jan Kiepura direct sleeping cars which operate between Russia and Amsterdam, Basel and Munich via Warsaw, Poznań and Germany.

The animals born in Poznań are now being sent to main European zoos, making all European captive populations of feathertail glider from Poznan descent.

In addition, the choir has been invited to participate in important music festivals, including the Lucerne Festival under James Conlon, Mario Venzago, Riccardo Chailly and Mariss Jansons, the European Music Festival in Berlin under Roland Bader, the International Festival of Boys Choirs in Poznań ( Poland ), as well as festivals in Nancy, Maastricht, Venice, Basel, and the Schubert Choir Festival in Vienna in 1997.

Viadrina European University maintains close cooperation with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

A member of an old noble ( szlachta ) magnate family from the Poznań region, Taczanowski is considered one of the most important European zoologists of the nineteenth century.

As of 16 December 2010, Lech Poznań had played a total of 62 games in European competition during the years 1978 – 2010.

Poznań is also one of the planned host cities for the 2012 European Football Championship.

In 2005 he reasserted his authority over 1000 m, winning his fourth European C-1 gold medal in Poznań.

Having won the 2004 European Junior Championships at both the C-1 500 m and C-1 1000 m in Poznań, Poland, Cheban was selected to represent Ukraine in both C-1 events at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

In 2003 he created the European Funds Bureau in Poznań City Council becoming its first director.

In 1993 he was a co-founder of an organisation that later was transformed into the Centre for European Research and Education in Poznań.

The Association organized among other things the European Youth Meeting ( Poznań 2003 ).

Young Krzyżanowski attended St. Mary Magdalen Gymnasium in Poznań, a principal center of the Polish nationalist underground in Prussian Poland.

Statues of Bolesław I and Mieszko I by Christian Daniel Rauch in the Golden Chapel, Poznań Cathedral

Archaeological research shows that in the late 10th century Poznań had a ducal palace ( where the Church of Our Lady now stands, opposite the cathedral ), with a chapel, possibly built for Mieszko's Christian wife Dobrawa.

It was said that the Jews of Poznań had induced a poor Christian woman to steal from the Dominican order " three hosts ", which they " desecrated ", and that when the hosts began to bleed, the Jews had thrown them into a ditch, whereupon various " miracles " occurred.

In the larger cities, like Poznań and Kraków, quarrels between the Christian and Jewish inhabitants were common and they assumed a very violent aspect.

At the request of his Poznań University professor, Zdzisław Krygowski, on arriving at Göttingen Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave.

Tradition attributes to Dobrawa the establishment of the Holy Trinity and St. Wit Churches in Gniezno and the Church of the Virgin Mary in Ostrów Tumski, Poznań.

* 1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań.

Its chief city is Poznań.

The region's main city and provincial capital is Poznań, near the centre of the region, on the Warta, with a population of over 560, 000.

An area of of forest and lakeland south of Poznań is designated the Wielkopolska National Park ( Wielkopolski Park Narodowy ), established in 1957.

Poznań and Gniezno were early centres of royal power, but following devastation of the region by pagan rebellion in the 1030s, and the invasion of Bretislaus I of Bohemia in 1038, the capital was moved by Casimir the Restorer from Gniezno to Kraków.

In the testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty, which initiated the period of fragmentation of Poland ( 1138 – 1320 ), the western part of Greater Poland ( including Poznań ) was granted to Mieszko III the Old.

In the case of the Greater Poland region these were Poznań Voivodeship and Kalisz Voivodeship.

However, following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Greater Poland was again partitioned, with the western part ( including Poznań ) going to Prussia.

Within the Prussian empire, western Greater Poland became the Grand Duchy of Posen ( Poznań ), which theoretically held some autonomy.

The Polish population was oppressed, with many former officials and others considered potential enemies by the Nazis being imprisoned or executed, including at the notorious Fort VII concentration camp in Poznań.

Poznań was declared a stronghold city ( Festung ) in the closing stages of the war, being taken by the Red Army in the Battle of Poznań, which ended on 22 February 1945.

After the war, Greater Poland was fully within the Polish People's Republic, as Poznań Voivodeship.

The present-day Greater Poland Voivodeship, again with Poznań as its capital, was created in 1999.

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

Marcin Dunin, archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno and Roman Catholic primate of Poland, was imprisoned by Prussian authorities for ten months in 1839-1840 ; after his release, he tried to organise a chaplaincy for the many Polish soldiers stationed in the city.

During the reign of Casimir I the Restorer, Kraków for the first time became the capital of Poland ( around 1040 ), since Greater Poland and Silesia, with main Polish urban centers, such as Gniezno and Poznań were ravaged by Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia.

With the outbreak of a Dano-Swedish war, he continued his fight against Sweden in Denmark, from where he " returned across the sea " to fight the invaders alongside the king who was then at the Royal Castle in Poznań.

Mieszko II died suddenly between 10 and 11 July 1034, probably in Poznań.

Category: Burials at Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, Poznań

Churches were being built at Gniezno, Poznań, Ostrów Lednicki and elsewhere.