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Lubin, Poland
Lubin (; ) is a city in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. It is the administrative seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin, although it is not part of the territory of the latter, as the town forms a separate urban gmina. As of 2021, the city had a total population of 70,815. Lubin was a small town with medieval origins, being a castellan seat in the 12th century. Over the centuries it prospered as a center of cloth and linen making. It owed its recent great growth to the discovery of the largest copper ore deposits in Europe in 1957. The city is one of the major industrial locations in Lower Silesia, with the headquarters of the third-largest Polish corporation, the KGHM Polska Miedź mining company, one of the world's leading copper and silver producers. It is one of four cities in the Copper Belt (along with Legnica, Głogów and Polkowice). It is located on the main highway connecting the port city of Szczecin with the Czech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGHM Polska Miedź
KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (Kombinat Górniczo-Hutniczy Miedzi), commonly known as KGHM (Polish pronunciation: ), is a Polish multinational mining corporation headquartered in Lubin, Lower Silesia, Poland. Founded in 1961 as a state enterprise, the company is considered a major global producer of copper and silver. Since 1997, it has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). The company is also a component of the WIG30 stock market index. Currently, KGHM employs around 34,000 people worldwide and operates 9 open-pit and underground mines in Poland, Canada, the United States and Chile. KGHM produces key global resources including copper, copper sulphate, gold, silver, nickel, nickel sulphate, molybdenum, rhenium, lead, sulphuric acid, selenium, platinum group metals. History Early history and foundation In 1951, the construction of the Copper Smelter in Legnica was commenced to smelt copper from the ore mined in the so-called old Lower Silesian copper basin ("Lena" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagłębie Lubin (women's Handball)
MKS Zagłębie Lubin is a women's handball club from Lubin, Poland, that plays in the Superliga. Achievements * Superliga: **Champions: 2011, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 **Runners-up: 1995, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 **Third place: 1996, 2001, 2007, 2008 * Puchar Polski: **Winners: 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 **Runners-up: 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2022 * EHF Cup: **Semifinalists: 2001 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **Semifinalists: 2002 Team Current squad :''Squad for the 2024–25 season'' ;Goalkeepers * 16 Barbara Zima * 37 Marta Lewalska * 99 Monika Maliczkiewicz ;Wingers ;LW *6 Kinga Grzyb * 00 Weronika Weber ;RW * 4 Aneta Łabuda * 17 Adrianna Górna * 00 Natalia Janas ;Line players * 6 Natalia Pankowska * 20 Joanna Drabik * 00 Goundouba Guirassy ;Back players ;LB * 00 Mariane Fernándes * 14 Daria Przywara * 81 Karolina Jureńczyk ;CB * 47 Karolina Kochaniak-Sala * 49 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagłębie Lubin
Zagłębie Lubin S.A. () is a Polish professional association football, football club based in Lubin. Founded in 1945 as ''OMTUR Lubin'', the club competes in the Ekstraklasa. History The football team was founded in 1945 as OMTUR Lubin by local members of the ''Youth Organization of the Association of Workers’ Universities'' (''Organizacja Młodzieży Towarzystwa Uniwersytetów Robotniczych, OMTUR''). The team played matches on a pitch at Kościuszko Street. The games of OMTUR Lubin were very popular, attracting crowds of people. Among the opponents, was the team of the local Red Army garrison, which faced the Poles in the autumn of 1945. In March 1946, Klub Sportowy Zawisza, based on OMTUR Lubin, was formed (the name comes after a medieval knight, Zawisza Czarny). Among its players was Emil Czyżowski of Pogoń Lwów, Tadeusz Rela of Tarnovia Tarnów, and Stanisław Leśniewski, who had briefly played for FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv. In 1946, Zawisza played in the Group IV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque Architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to combat the Reformation and the Protestantism, Protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. It reached its peak in the High Baroque (1625–1675), when it was used in churches and palaces in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Bavaria and Austria. In the Late Baroque period (1675–1750), it reached as far as Russia, the Ottoman Baroque architecture, Ottoman Empire and the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas, Portuguese colonies in Latin America. In about 1730, an even more elaborately decorative variant called Rococo appeared and flourished in Central Europe. Baroque architects took the basic elements of Renaissance architecture, including domes and colonnades, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. It originated in the Île-de-France and Picardy regions of northern France. The style at the time was sometimes known as ''opus Francigenum'' (); the term ''Gothic'' was first applied contemptuously during the later Renaissance, by those ambitious to revive the Classical architecture, architecture of classical antiquity. The defining design element of Gothic architecture is the Pointed arch (architecture), pointed arch. The use of the pointed arch in turn led to the development of the pointed rib vault and flying buttresses, combined with elaborate tracery and stained glass windows. At the Abbey of Basilica of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, near Paris, the choir was rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Public Transport
Free public transport, often called fare-free public transit or zero-fare public transport, is public transport which is fully funded by means other than collecting fares from passengers. It may be funded by national, regional or local government through taxation, and/or by commercial sponsorship by businesses. Alternatively, the concept of "free-ness" may take other forms, such as no-fare access via a card which may or may not be paid for in its entirety by the user. On 29 February 2020, Luxembourg became the first country in the world to make all public transport in the country (buses, trams, and trains) free to use. On 1 October 2022, Malta made its public transport free on most routes, though unlike in Luxembourg, this applies only to residents. As some transit lines intended to operate with fares initially start service, the organisation may elect not to collect fares for an introductory period to create interest or to test operations. Types City-wide systems Several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Route E65
European route E65 is a north-south Class-A European route that begins in Malmö, Sweden and ends in Chania, Greece. The road is about in length. After crossing the Baltic Sea, it proceeds on land from north to south through Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. Route ;Sweden *: Malmö ( ) – Ystad * Ystad - Świnoujście ;Poland *: Świnoujście – Troszyn *: Troszyn – Goleniów (start of concurrency with ) – Szczecin (end of concurrency with ) – Gryfino – Pyrzyce – Myślibórz – Gorzów Wielkopolski – Skwierzyna – Międzyrzecz – Jordanowo () – Świebodzin – Zielona Góra – Nowa Sól - Legnica () - Jawor - Bolków *: Bolków - Jelenia Góra - Jakuszyce, Szklarska Poręba ;Czechia *: Harrachov – Železný Brod – Turnov () *: Turnov () - Prague *: Prague ( ) *: Prague (start of concurrency with ) - Humpolec () - Jihlava (end of concurrency with ) - Brno (, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic–Poland Border
The Czech-Polish border () is the inter-state border between the Czech Republic and the Republic of Poland. The Czech Republic is one of the seven countries currently bordering Poland. This condition persists since 1 January 1993, when Czechoslovakia collapsed. The current border with the Czech Republic was part of the border with Czechoslovakia and had the same route. History The Polish-Czech border can also be called the border existing for several months in 1939. On 16 March 1939, the German Reich, after Slovakia declared independence (in fact it client state of Nazi Germany), created from the occupied territories of Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia, which were not directly attached to Germany as the Sudetenland or to Poland as Trans-Olza, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It constituted an autonomous German administrative unit that bordered Poland over a distance of 66 kilometres, and the border coincided with a fragment of the former Polish-Czechoslovak border. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szczecin
Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the largest city of northwestern Poland, and seventh-largest city of Poland. the population was 391,566. Szczecin is located on the Oder River, south of the Szczecin Lagoon and the Bay of Pomerania. The city is situated along the southwestern shore of Dąbie Lake, on both sides of the Oder and on several large islands between the western and eastern branches of the river. It is also surrounded by dense forests, shrubland and heaths, chiefly the Ueckermünde Heath, Wkrzańska Heath shared with Germany (Ueckermünde) and the Szczecin Landscape Park. Szczecin is adjacent to the Police, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, town of Police and is the urban centre of the Szczecin agglomeration, an extended metropolitan area that includes communities in the St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expressway S3 (Poland)
Expressway S3 or express road S3 (in Polish ''droga ekspresowa S3'') is a Polish highway, which is planned to run from Świnoujście on the Baltic Sea through Szczecin, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Zielona Góra and Legnica, to the border with the Czech Republic, where it will connect to the planned D11 motorway. The total intended length is , of which is open to traffic and is under construction as of January 2025. The main section from Szczecin (interchange with A6) to the Czech border is completed. In was constructed from 2008 until 2024. The last 3 km near the border remain closed to traffic until around 2028 when the connecting stretch of the D11 motorway is to be constructed in Czech Republic. The section from Świnoujście to Szczecin ( A6) is partially completed and partially under construction, with planned completion in 2025. Route History Initial route plans (autostrada A3) The autostrada A3 was a motorway planned from 1993 to 2001 that was supposed to run fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polkowice
Polkowice () is a town in south-western Poland. It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The town is the seat of Polkowice County and of Gmina Polkowice. Geography Polkowice is located in historic Lower Silesia, about northwest of Lubin. The nearest airport is Wrocław Airport, located from Polkowice. Situated in a traditional mining region, the town is part of the largest industrial copper-extraction area in Poland, with a copper-processing plant operating nearby. Nearby Polkowice Dolne is the site of a former State Agricultural Farm (PGR) and, since 1998, of a Volkswagen diesel engine plant, another major employer in the region. Designated as an urban-type settlement from 1945, Polkowice regained town status in 1967. In 1975–1998 it was in the former Legnica Voivodeship. History The name of the town is probably derived from Slavic ( Old Polish) '' Boleslaw'', meaning "great glory", a favoured dynastic name in the Polish royal House of Piast. According to le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
