The attempts by Konrad of Masovia to subdue the Prussian lands had picked long-term and intense border quarrels, whereby the Polish lands of Masovia, Cuyavia and even Greater Poland became subject to continuous Prussian raids.

Greater Poland or Great Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; Latin: Polonia Maior ) is a historical region of west-central Poland.

Because Greater Poland was the settlement area of the Polans and the core of the early Polish state, the region was at times simply called " Poland " ( Latin Polonia ).

Greater Poland formed the heart of the 10th-century early Polish state, sometimes being called the " cradle of Poland ".

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

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

Her actions promoted the reign of her husband: Upon the death of the Polish High Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks in 1231, Henry also became Duke of Greater Poland and the next year prevailed as High Duke at Kraków.

The same procedure was used in naming these two Polish provinces – the " older " one, the cradle of Polish statehood, was called Greater Poland, while her " younger sister ", which became part of Poland a few years later, was called Lesser Poland.

Lesser Poland, or Polonia Minor, appeared for the first time in historical documents in 1493, in the Statutes of Piotrków, during the reign of King Jan Olbracht, to distinguish this province from the cradle of the Polish state, Greater Poland ( Polonia Maior ).

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.

Unlike other Polish provinces, especially Silesia, Lesser Poland did not undergo further fragmentation, and in early 14th century became the core of the reunited nation ( together with Greater Poland ).

The attempts to create a Masurian Polish national consciousness, largely originating from nationalist circles of Greater Poland, however faced the resistance of the Masurians, who, despite having similar folk traditions and linguistics to Poles, regarded themselves Prussians and later Germans.

Current Lesser Poland Voivodeship, however, covers only small part of the broader ancient Małopolska region which, together with Greater Poland ( Wielkopolska ) and Silesia ( Śląsk ), formed the early medieval Polish state.

Greater Poland was so devastated that it ceased to be the core of Polish Kingdom.

* Greater Polish, spoken in the west

In the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806, Polish soldiers and civilian volunteers assisted the efforts of Napoleon by driving out Prussian forces from the region.

After World War I the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) brought Poznań and most of the region under Polish control, confirmed by the Treaty of Versailles.

With the Polish local government reforms of 1999, Poznań again became the capital of a larger province ( Greater Poland Voivodeship ).

It further affected the German minority living within the territory of the former Second Polish Republic in Greater Poland, eastern Upper Silesia, Chełmno Land and the Polish Corridor with Danzig.

One of the most important events in those times was the foundation of the Diocese of Wrocław by the Polish Duke ( from 1025 king ) Bolesław the Brave in 1000, which, together with the Bishoprics of Kraków and Kołobrzeg, was placed under the Archbishopric of Gniezno in Greater Poland, founded by Otto III in 1000.

* April 8 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising ( d. 1960 )

The disagreement between Polish landlords of Lesser Poland on one side and landlords of Greater Poland on the other, regarding the choice of the future King of Poland, finally ended in choosing the Lithuanian side ; the support of the lords of Greater Poland was not enough to give Prince Sigismund the Polish crown.

Greater Poland comprises much of the area drained by the Warta River and its tributaries, including the Noteć River.

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

Greater Poland encompassed the valley of river Warta, stretched to the north to the Notec river and to the south it encompassed Kalisz.

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

The highest elevation is Greater Kobyla Mountain ( 284 m ) in the Ostrzeszowski Hills, the lowest area is located in the valley of the Warta River at the mouth of its tributary the Noteć ( 21 m ) in the north-western part of the region.

The principality inherited from his father was composed of northern Greater Poland, which included Ujście and Nakło ( although some historians believed that Władysław Odonic remained in the lands at the north of Warta river until his death but lost Ujście and Nakło, and this lands were inherited by his sons ); subsequently he strove to recover the remaining part of Greater Poland.

Cybina is a river in Greater Poland, the right affluent of Warta.

Luboń () is a town situated on the Warta River, in the Poznań metro area, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship ( since 1999 ).

It flows out of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, through the voivodeships of Greater Poland and Lubusz Land, and empties near Gorzów Wielkopolski into the Warta.

The grain supplying area was not only Pomerania but also Brandenburg and Greater Poland — trade routes along the Oder and Warta rivers.

The Polans ( also known as Polanes, Polanians ;, derived from Old Slavic pole, " field " or " plain ", see polje ) were a West Slavic tribe, part of the Lechitic group, inhabiting the Warta River basin of the historic Greater Poland region in the 8th century.

Located by the Warta River, it has been situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship ( since 1999 ), previously in Poznań Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ).

In 1965, upon the creation of Greater London, the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames incorporated areas that had been parts of both Middlesex and Surrey ; and further changes in 1974 moved some of the boundaries away from the river.

From the river head they continued climbing along the Greater Saukdara Glacier towards a saddle at an altitude 5820 m ( this saddle is also known as the Krilenko Pass ).

Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, the city forms a conurbation with the nearby towns of Ostrów Wielkopolski and Nowe Skalmierzyce.

According to most classic authors, a district which was bounded on the southwest by Pontus, on the west by the Black Sea as far as the river Corax ( probably the present day Bzyb River, Abkhazia, Georgia ), on the north by the chain of the Greater Caucasus, which lay between it and Asiatic Sarmatia, on the east by Iberia and Montes Moschici ( now the Lesser Caucasus ), and on the south by Armenia.

With Greater London to the west and the river to the south, the county of Essex abuts the Borough to the north and east, and across the river lies Kent.

The Red River in Greater Grand Forks, as viewed from the Grand Forks, North Dakota | Grand Forks side of the river

The First Division, consisting of the Guards and Highland Brigades, was still crossing the river and a great Russian column was moving straight for the Greater redoubt in counterattack.

By now, the First Division had finally crossed the river and the Russians by the Greater Redoubt saw approaching below them the Grenadier Guards on the right of the British line, the Scots Fusilier Guards in the centre and the Coldstream Guards on the left.

Šufflay's idea about the delineation on the Drina river would later influence Greater Croatian irredentism.

* River Tame, Greater Manchester, a river that meets the Goyt to form the Mersey

The River Douglas, also known as the River Asland or Astland, is a river that flows through Lancashire and Greater Manchester in the north-west of England.

The modern town encompasses Bengeworth and Greater and Little Hampton, which were originally independent villages on the opposite bank of the river.

* Humber River ( Ontario ), Canada, a major river in Toronto with tributaries throughout the Greater Toronto Area

Inside Greater London below Enfield Lock the river forms the boundary with the former Royal Small Arms Factory, now known as Enfield Island Village, a housing development.

When the name Cuiavia arose for the first time in the 1136 Bull of Gniezno, it referred to the lands east of Greater Poland around Kruszwica and Włocławek, bordering with the Vistula river.