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.

Perhaps at that time the Varangian warriors were recruited ; their presence is indicated by archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Poznań.

Perhaps among them were the Varangians, which is indicated by archaeological findings in the vicinity of Poznań.

According to a new theory, Bishop Jordan, Bishop of Poland | Jordan was buried here, while Mieszko's grave location is probably the Chapel of the Virgin Mary at Ostrów Tumski, Poznań | Ostrów Tumski palace | palatium complex.

Poznań (; ; Poyzn ) is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 551, 627 in the end of 2010.

Poznań is an important centre of trade, industry, and education, and hosts regular international trade fairs.

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

The name Poznań probably comes from a personal name Poznan ( from the Polish participle poznan ( y ) – " one who is known / recognized ") and would mean " Poznan's town ".

The city's full official name is Stołeczne Miasto Poznań (" The Capital City of Poznań "), in reference to its role as a centre of political power in the early Polish state.

Poznań is known as Posen in German, and was officially called Haupt-und Residenzstadt Posen (" Capital and Residence City of Poznań ") between 20 August 1910 and 28 November 1918.

For centuries before the Christianization of Poland, Poznań ( consisting of a fortified stronghold between the Warta and Cybina rivers, on what is now Ostrów Tumski ) was an important cultural and political centre of the Polan tribe.

The Congress of Gniezno in 1000 led to the country's first permanent archbishopric being established in Gniezno ( which is generally regarded as Poland's capital in that period ), although Poznań continued to have independent bishops of its own.

The smaller Cybina river flows through eastern Poznań to meet the east branch of the Warta ( that branch is also called Cybina – its northern section was originally a continuation of that river, while its southern section has been artificially widened to form a main stream of the Warta ).

Opposite it between the two branches of the Warta is Ostrów Tumski, containing Poznań Cathedral and other ecclesiatical buildings, as well as housing and industrial facilities.

The climate of Poznań is continental humid with relatively cold winters and fairly cold summers.

Poznań is divided into 42 neighbourhoods ( osiedles ), each of which has its own elected council with certain decision-making and spending powers.

Nowadays Poznań is one of the major trade centers in Poland.

Poznań is regarded as the second most prosperous city in Poland after Warsaw.

The main railway station is Poznań Central Station to the south-west of the city centre ; there is also the smaller Poznań Wschód and Poznań Garbary station north-east of the centre, and a number of other stations on the outskirts of the city.

Other tributaries of the Warta within Poznań are the Junikowo Stream ( Strumień Junikowski ), which flows through southern Poznań from the west, meeting the Warta just outside the city boundary in Luboń ; the Bogdanka and Wierzbak, formerly two separate tributaries flowing from the north-west and along the north side of the city centre, now with their lower sections diverted underground ; the Główna, flowing through the neighbourhood of the same name in north-east Poznań ; and the Rose Stream ( Strumień Różany ) flowing east from Morasko in the north of the city.

The former Imperial Castle in Poznań | Imperial Castle is now one of Poznań's premier cultural-theatrical institutions.

* The Baltic glaciation in the lowlands of northern and central Europe where there are now numerous lakes of the Pomeranian Lake District, a feature especially common in and around Poznań and Gniezno.

He was born in Środa in the Grand Duchy of Poznań, Kingdom of Prussia ( now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland ) and died in Vienna, Austria.

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

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.

An old ( 1823 ) bottle of bitters from Germany ( Posen, now Poznań in Poland ).

Władysław Roman Orlicz ( May 24, 1903 in Okocim, Austria-Hungary ( now Poland ) – August 9, 1990 in Poznań, Poland ) was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics.

One can now travel by train from Kutno to most of the big cities in Poland ( Warsaw, Łódź, Bydgoszcz, Szczecin, Poznań, Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin ) and also to various tourism centers ( Kołobrzeg, Krynica-Zdrój, Hel, Zakopane ).

Former seat of the Prussian Settlement Commission, now Poznań University's Collegium Maius

Kostrzewski was born in Węglewo ( now in Poznań County ).

In 1950, the Medical Faculty, including the Dentistry section and the Faculty of Pharmacy, were split off to form a separate institution, now the Poznań University of Medical Sciences.

The first settlements in what is now Poznań can be traced to the late period of the Stone Age.

Poznań began as a stronghold built in the 8th or 9th century AD between branches of the Warta and Cybina rivers, on what is now called Ostrów Tumski (" Cathedral Island ").

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.

Poznań was by now a major military post, headquarters of the German Fifth Army Corps.

( The last two are now university buildings: Collegium Minus of Adam Mickiewicz University, and Collegium Maius, occupied mainly by Poznań Medical University.

Poznań now covered an area of.

The city again became the capital of Poznań Voivodeship, now within the communist People's Republic of Poland.

With the Polish local government reforms of 1999, Poznań again became the capital of a larger voivodeship, now called Greater Poland Voivodeship.

The name continues to be popularly used to refer specifically to the original neighbourhood, as reflected in the names of three of the osiedles into which Poznań is now divided: Stary Grunwald (" Old Grunwald "), Grunwald Północ (" Grunwald North ") and Grunwald Południe (" Grunwald South ").