After a particularly sound defeat by Prussian forces in 1223, Polish forces in Chełmno, the seat of Christian of Oliva and Duchy of Masovia would go on the defensive.

Around the year 1000, when the area was under Polish rule, the stronghold became seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg.

In subsequent elections ( 1991 ), Leszek Miller was a leader on the election list of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic in Łódź and, following a considerable success in elections, he won a seat in the Sejm, becoming Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic.

In reunited Poland, and later in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, Poznań was the seat of a voivodeship.

However, it is not able to draw taxation directly from its citizens, and instead receives its budget from the Polish national government whose seat is in Warsaw.

The city is also the seat of the Białystok-Gdansk Diocese of the Autocephalous Polish Orthodox Church.

It is also the oldest legislated seat of the diocese, with the Cathedral in Płock built in the first half of the 12th century and housing the sarcophagi of Polish monarchs.

It was named after the Polish city of Kraków, a historical capital of Poland and seat of Polish monarchs.

Relations with Catholic Lithuania were slightly more complicated because of the Polish occupation of Vilnius, a city and archiepiscopal seat, which Lithuania claimed as its own.

The government seat of the General Government was located in Kraków ( German: Krakau ) rather than the traditional Polish capital Warsaw for security reasons.

When the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in 1928, Salomon walked into the signing room and took the vacant seat of the Polish delegate as well took several photos.

During the 13th century, apart from the tribunals, Polish provincial princes made Piotrków a seat of a few assemblies of the Sieradz knights, which according to historical sources were held in 1233, in 1241, and in 1291.

The city was a seat of the Military Department of National Committee, and headquarters for the Polish Legions, which were voluntary troops organized by Józef Piłsudski, Władysław Sikorski, and others to fight against Russia.

Although the capital of the voivodship was Lwów ( see: Lwów Voivodeship ), Przemyśl recovered its nodal position as a seat of local church administration, as well as the garrison of the 10th Corps of the Polish Army-a staff unit charged with organising the defence of roughly 10 % of Poland.

Before that and during the Second Polish Republic Nowy Sącz was a county seat in the Kraków Voivodeship.

In the Teutonic state Brodnica was the seat of the Commander: in the Polish Republic it was the capital of the district starosty, and the former Commander's lands were then royal property.

In the Second Polish Republic Radzyń was the seat of a county in Lublin Voivodeship.

The town was the seat of the Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów ( PWS ), which manufactured Polish airplanes.

In the Second Polish Republic, Jasło was the seat of a county in Kraków Voivodeship.

Poles in Romania form an officially recognised national minority, having one seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Romania ( currently held by Ghervazen Longher ) and access to Polish elementary schools and cultural centres ( known as " Polish Houses ").

During the later stages of the Great War, on May 11, 1918, the town was the seat of the Battle of Kaniów, in which the forces of the 2nd Polish Corps and the Polish Legions under Józef Haller de Hallenburg failed to break through the Austro-German lines to the Russian side.

Ronneby was named from Ronneby, the seat of Ronneby Municipality, near Karlskrona in Blekinge County, Sweden, on the River Ronneby near its mouth in the Baltic Sea.

Traditionally, the seat of the Russian admiralty and the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet were located in Kronstadt guarding the approaches to Saint Petersburg.

Bulte was the first Canadian of Baltic heritage to take a seat in Parliament.

His instinct was correct because shortly after his arrival in Kaunas-the seat of Lithuanian government-the Soviet Union declared an Ultimatum to the Baltic Republics.

As war approached, Tributs observed the growing evidence of hostile German activity with apprehension ; in the summer of 1940, he " advanced Baltic Fleet headquarters from its historic seat at the Kronstadt fortress in Leningrad to the port of Tallinn, two hundred miles to the west " despite his worries about security problems and the difficulty of constructing a new base.

The university's award-winning, 1, 200 seat, Phillippe Performing Arts Center is used for numerous community events throughout the year, such as Marion Philharmonic Orchestra concerts and the Grant County Spelling Bee.

It has served as the seat of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bohuslava Martinů since 1955.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

Yet you feel the orchestra is near at hand, and the individual instruments have the same firm presence associated with listening from a good seat in an acoustically perfect hall.

Placement is important because the rear seat, bunks and front jump seats rest on or are fastened to many of the side battens.

By lifting the seat upwards a little, the weight is taken off the neck and the back is kept rounded.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

The issue which may make it necessary to have a session is the highly sensitive problem of cutting the state's congressional districts from six to five to eliminate one congressional seat.

As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.

The seat of the municipality is Rodolivos.

Astoria is the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States.

Finished in black lacquer, the stools are used to seat customers at the ' Genius Bar ' and also in other areas of the store at times when seating is required for a product workshop or special event.

Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

On the basis of these traditions, the churches in question often claim to have inherited specific authority, doctrines and / or practices on the authority of their founding apostle ( s ), which is understood to be continued by the bishops of the see ( seat ) or throne of the church that each founded and whose original leader he was.

With a capacity of over 72, 000, it is the second largest of its kind in Italy, with only San Siro able to seat more.

It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district, and its largest town, as well as the largest town within the Ostwürttemberg region.

The Stenbockska Palace is the seat of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden.

The seat of the municipality is in Genisea.

The city remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Troadensis ; the seat is vacant following the resignation of the last bishop in 1971.

The seat of the municipality is the city of Aveiro, with about 73, 003 inhabitants in the 5 urban city ( cidade ) parishes.

It is the seat of two major DAX-listed German corporate players.

While some argued for the seat of government to move to Berlin, others advocated leaving it in Bonn — a situation roughly analogous to that of the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital but The Hague is the seat of government.

The Reichstag building is the traditional seat of the German Parliament, renovated in the 1950s after severe World War II damage.