Legnica has 104, 178 inhabitants and is the third largest city in the voivodeship ( after Wrocław and Wałbrzych ) and 38th in Poland.

Kraków has railway and road connections with Katowice ( expressway ), Warsaw, Wrocław and Rzeszów.

Wrocław was the host of EuroBasket 1963, FIBA EuroBasket 2009, UEFA Euro 2012 and will host 2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship and has been selected as a European Capital of Culture for 2016.

Wrocław has a network of bike paths and bike rentals, seasonal self ( so-called Wrocław Bike City, pl: Wrocławski Rower Miejski ).

The Wrocław area has many popular professional sports teams.

The city has been part of an important trade route between Wrocław and the Greater Poland region, and had close ties with Kraków.

Wrocław Medical University has 22 international agreements of co-operation signed with other universities abroad.

The first lecture was given by Kazimierz Idaszewski on 15 November 1945, and since then that day has been celebrated as Wrocław Science Day.

In 1861, he enrolled at the University of Breslau ( Wrocław ) to study medicine ; he later claimed that he completed his degree, but this has been disputed.

Wisła has tremendous fan relations between Lechia Gdańsk, Śląsk Wrocław and Unia Tarnów.

Volvo IT has around 5000 employees and offices in Gothenburg, Skövde, Olofström, Wrocław, Ghent, Lyon, Greensboro, Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur, Tianjin and Curitiba.

The club was founded in 1947 and has competed under many names since then ; adopting the name Śląsk Wrocław ten years after their foundation.

The Nobles from Wrocław has a right-wing views and is hostile to homosexuals.

Reopened on 14 June 1985, the major attraction of the old Lwów has immediately become the main tourist attraction of Wrocław.

Since 3 April 2004, he has been Archbishop emeritus of Wrocław.

Born in Krosno Odrzańskie, Kuszczak has previously played for Śląsk Wrocław in Poland, as well as for the German clubs KFC Uerdingen 05 and Hertha BSC, before moving in 2004 to England's West Bromwich Albion.

Since 1971 he has been working as an academic teacher at the Department of Law and Administration at the University of Wrocław.

Extensive reconstruction, especially of the section between Legnica and Wrocław, has removed all traces of the old concrete road surface, but some aspects of 1930s standards of construction remain ; for example, the aforementioned stretch does not have an emergency lane, a feature that is to be added in the future.

This includes the building of state of the art new terminals with an increased number of jetways and stands at both Copernicus Airport in Wrocław and Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdańsk.

During the 19th century Greifswald, known as " Gryfia " in Polish was one of the main centers of Polish students in Germany After Wrocław and Berlin, Gryfi as the city is named in Polish housed the third largest number of Polish students

In Lubaczów is Museum of Kresy, and there is a project, supported by local government, to create a Museum of Eastern Borderlands in Wrocław, the city where a number of Poles from Kresy settled after World War Two.

According to various sources the number of people to have been perished in Kurapaty is estimated to be the following: up to 7, 000 people ( according to attorney general of Belarus Bozhelko ), at least 30, 000 people ( according to attorney general of BSSR Tarnaŭski ), up to 100, 000 people ( according to “ Belarus ” reference book ), from 102, 000 to 250, 000 people ( according to the article by Zianon Pazniak in “ Litaratura i mastactva ” newspaper ), 250, 000 people ( according to Polish historian and professor of University of Wrocław Zdzisław Julian Winnicki ), and more ( according to the British historian Norman Davies ).

Apart from Magdeburg itself, notable towns based on Magdeburg Law ( or its local variants ) were Biecz, Frysztak, Sandomierz, Kraków, Kurów, Minsk, Polotsk, Poznań, Ropczyce, Łódź, Wrocław, Szczecin, Złotoryja, Vilnius, Trakai, Kaunas, Hrodna, Kiev, Lviv, Czernowitz ( currently Chernivtsi in Ukraine ), Brody, Lutsk, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Sanok, Sniatyn, Nizhyn, Bardejov, Humenné and Krupina, among others.

In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk / new wave band called Klaus Mitffoch, based in Wrocław.

On the way back he conquered part of Silesia including Wrocław and destroyed religious buildings, which were built by Mieszko I during the feast of the conversion of Poland, and plundered Mieszko I's tomb.

The first Polish team of academics arrived in Wrocław in late May 1945 and took custody of the university buildings, and started to rearrange the university buildings, which were 70 % destroyed.

A group of 27 professors, originating from the University and Technical University of Lwów, arrived in Wrocław and started the Polish academic society in the destroyed or severely damaged buildings of the Technische Hochschule Breslau.

As a result of this, Ebbinghaus left to join the University of Breslau ( now Wrocław, Poland ), in a chair left open by Theodor Lipps ( who took over Stumpf's position when he moved to Berlin ).

According to legend, she went barefoot even in winter, and when she was urged by the Bishop of Wrocław to wear shoes, she carried them in her hands.

The congress was organized by Polish king Bolesław Chrobry and Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, and also led to the establishment of bishoprics in Kraków and Wrocław, connecting the territories of the Polish state.

Orange Alternative ( Pomarańczowa Alternatywa ) is a name for an underground protest movement which was started in Wrocław, a town in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych ( sometimes misspelled as Frydrych ), commonly known as Major ( Commander of Festung Breslau ) in the 1980s.

The first graffiti was painted by Major Waldemar Fydrych and Wiesław Cupała on the night from the 30 to 31 August 1982 on one of the residences in the Wrocław district of Biscupin and Sępolno.

The first modest happening called the " Burning of Tubes " was organized as early as 1985 in Wrocław by Major Waldemar Fydrych accompanied by a small group of artists to which belonged: Krzysztof Skarbek, Piotr Petyszkowski, Andrzej Głuszek and Sławomir Monkiewicz.

The Charité ( a hospital founded in 1710 ) in Berlin established a separate Paediatric Pavilion in 1830, followed by similar institutions at Saint Petersburg in 1834, and at Vienna and Breslau ( now Wrocław ), both in 1837.

The Orange Alternative was created in 1981 by Waldemar Fydrych ( alias ' Major '), a graduate of history and art history at the University of Wrocław.

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.

Wrocław is now a unique European city of mixed heritage, with architecture influenced by Bohemian, Austrian and Prussian traditions, such as Silesian Gothic and its Baroque style of court builders of Habsburg Austria ( Fischer von Erlach ).

Wrocław is currently governed by the city's mayor and a municipal legislature known as the city council.

* Wrocław University ( Uniwersytet Wrocławski ): over 47, 000 students, ranked fourth among public universities in Poland by the " Wprost " weekly ranking in 2007

* Wrocław University of Technology ( Politechnika Wrocławska ): over 40, 000 students, the best university of technology in Poland by the " Wprost " weekly ranking in 2007

* Wrocław University of Economics ( Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu ): over 18, 000 students, ranked fifth best among public economic universities in Poland by the " Wprost " weekly ranking in 2007

Wrocław is skirted on the south by the A4 motorway, which allows for a quick connection with Upper Silesia, Kraków and further east to the Ukraine, and Dresden and Berlin to the west.

The city is served by: Wrocław International Airport ; a river port ; the main rail station Wrocław Główny ; and, adjacent to the mail railway station, a central bus station with services offered by Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej.

Public transport in Wrocław includes bus lines and 22 tram lines operated by Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacyjne ( MPK, the Municipal Transport Company ).