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Olszynka
Olszynka (; ) is one of the districts of the city of Gdańsk. It is located in the city's southeast. Location Olszynka borders Rudniki to the east, Śródmieście to the north, Orunia-Św. Wojciech-Lipce to the west, and Gmina Pruszcz Gdański to the south. Its quarters ('' osiedla'') are Olszynka Mała and Olszynka Wielka. It is located entirely on the low-lying Vistula Fens. History The area which is today known as Olszynka was initially a dense forest, given to the city of Danzig by the Teutonic State in the second half of the 14th century and named the ''Bürgerwald'' (City Forest). The area was rapidly deforested, and in 1618, it was divided into ''Groß Walddorf'' and ''Klein Walddorf'', later known as Olszynka Wielka and Olszynka Mała respectively. The first households to inhabit what is today Olszynka came in . The area quickly experienced population growth, which was occasionally interrupted by war. As of 1793, Klein Walddorf had 253 inhabitants, and Groß Walddo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudniki, Gdańsk
Rudniki is a district of Gdańsk, Poland, located in the eastern part of the city. It is a predominantly industrial district, located on the shore of the Vistula River. It is notable for containing the Gdańsk Refinery within its boundaries; much of the land outside of the refinery is rural. Location Rudniki borders Przeróbka, Stogi, Krakowiec-Górki Zachodnie, and Wyspa Sobieszewska to the north, Gmina Pruszcz Gdański to the east and south, and Olszynka and Śródmieście to the west. To the north, it is additionally bounded by the Vistula. It consists of the quarters ('' osiedla'') of Biały Dworek, Błonia, Gęsia Karczma, Kryzel, Miałki Szlak, Płonia Mała, Płonia Wielka, Reduta Płońska, Reduta Tylna, and Sienna Grobla II. History Rudniki, located in the Vistula Fens, was uninhabited for most of its history, having been part of the city and known as the City Meadows (Bürgerwiesen) since medieval times. In 1936, ''Daheim'', a housing estate for impoverished fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Śródmieście, Gdańsk
Śródmieście (; 'city centre'; ) is a district (''dzielnica'') of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. It is the traditional city centre of Gdańsk. Location Śródmieście is located in the central-eastern part of Gdańsk, on the Motława. To its northeast, it borders the Przeróbka on Port Island (Gdańsk), Port Island, found across the Martwa Wisła River. To its south and east, it is bordered by the . Across this body of water, the districts of Rudniki, Gdańsk, Rudniki, Olszynka and Orunia-Św. Wojciech-Lipce are found. To the south-west, it borders Chełm, Gdańsk, Chełm and to the west, it borders Siedlce, Gdańsk, Siedlce. Śródmieście borders Aniołki and Młyniska to its north. Subdivisions (''osiedla'') Śródmieście comprises the following quarters (''osiedle, osiedla''): Transport The Gdańsk Główny railway station, Gdańsk Główny and Gdańsk Śródmieście railway station, Gdańsk Śródmieście railway stations are located within the district, with the forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzielnica
In the Polish system of local administration, a dzielnica (Polish plural ''dzielnice'') is an administrative subdivision or quarter of a city or town. A dzielnica may have its own elected council ('' rada dzielnicy'', or ''dzielnica council''), and those of Warsaw each have their own mayor (''burmistrz''). Like the and sołectwo, a dzielnica is an auxiliary unit (''jednostka pomocnicza'') of a gmina. These units are created by decision of the gmina council, and do not have legal personality in their own right. The subsidiary units of many towns and cities are called osiedles rather than dzielnice, although it is also possible for osiedles to exist within a dzielnica. Numbers and sizes of dzielnice vary significantly between cities. Warsaw has 18 dzielnice, as does Kraków; Gdańsk has 34, Gdynia 22, Lublin 27, Katowice 22 and Szczecin 4. Some cities are no longer formally divided into dzielnice, although formerly existing dzielnice continue to be referred to as such and se ... [...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] |
Voivodeships Of Poland
A voivodeship ( ; ; plural: ) is the highest-level Administrative divisions of Poland, administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries. The term has been in use since the 14th century and is commonly translated into English as "province". The administrative divisions of Poland, Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, which went into effect on 1 January 1999, reduced the number of voivodeships to sixteen. These 16 replaced the 49 subdivisions of the Polish People's Republic, former voivodeships that had existed from 1 July 1975, and bear a greater resemblance (in territory, but not in name) to the voivodeships that existed between 1950 and 1975. Today's voivodeships are mostly named after historical and geographical regions, while those prior to 1998 generally took their names from the cities on which they were centered. The new units range in area from under (Opole Voivodeship) to over (Masovian Voivodeship), and in population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–1998), Gdańsk, Elbląg Voivodeship, Elbląg and Słupsk Voivodeship, Słupsk, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1997. It is bordered by the West Pomeranian Voivodeship to the west, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Greater Poland and the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship to the south, the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the east, and the Baltic Sea to the north. It also shares a short land border with Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast), on the Vistula Spit. The bulk of the voivodeship is located in the historic region of Pomerania, with the territories on the eastern bank of the Vistula being part of Powiśle (region), Powiśle. The Pomeranian part of the region comprises most of Pomerelia (the easternmost part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City With Powiat Rights
A city with powiat rights () is in Poland a designation denoting 66 of the 107 cities (the urban gminas which are governed by a city mayor or ''prezydent miasta'') which exercise also the powers and duties of a Powiat, county (), thus being an independent city. They have roughly the same status as former county boroughs in the United Kingdom. Sometimes, such a city will also be referred to in Polish as city county (); this term however is not official (it was used during the interwar times of the Second Polish Republic). The contemporary term ''city with powiat rights'' should not be used interchangeably with the interwar ''city county''. Such cities are distinct from and independent of the 314 regular powiats (sometimes referred as 'land counties' (), again a term that was used in the interwar period and is not used in modern Polish law). List of cities with powiat rights References See also * Consolidated city-county {{DEFAULTSORT:City County (Poland) City counties o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto''), with a population of approximately 1.5 million. The city has a complex history, having had periods of Polish, German and self rule. An important shipbuilding and trade port since the Middle Ages, between 1361 and 1500 it was a member of the Hanseatic League, which influenced its economic, demographic and #Architecture, urban landscape. It also served as Poland's principal seaport and was its largest city since the 15th century until the early 18th century when Warsaw surpassed it. With the Partition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gmina Pruszcz Gdański
__NOTOC__ Gmina Pruszcz Gdański is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Pruszcz Gdański, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2016 its total population is 28,001. Villages Gmina Pruszcz Gdański contains the villages and settlements of Arciszewo, Będzieszyn, Bogatka, Borkowo Łostowickie, Borzęcin, Bystra, Bystra-Osiedle, Cieplewo, Dziewięć Włók, Głębokie, Goszyn, Jagatowo, Juszkowo, Krępiec, Lędowo, Łęgowo, Malentyn, Mokry Dwór, Ostatni Grosz, Przejazdowo, Radunica, Rekcin, Rokitnica, Roszkowo, Rotmanka, Rusocin, Straszyn, Świńcz, Weselno, Wiślina, Wiślinka, Wojanowo, Żukczyn, Żuława and Żuławka. Neighbouring gminas Gmina Pruszcz Gdański is bordered by the towns of Gdańsk and Pruszcz Gdański Pruszcz Gdański (; former ; ; ) is a town in Pomerania, northern Poland w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osiedle
(Polish plural: ) is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its , or of a town, with its own council and executive. Like the and sołectwo, an is an auxiliary unit (''jednostka pomocnicza'') of a gmina. These units are created by decision of the gmina council, and do not have legal personality Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sen ... in their own right. In the case of an urban-rural gmina, it is also possible for a whole town to be designated an auxiliary unit. Not all Polish cities or towns have in the above sense. However the word is also frequently used to denote any housing estate or development. ReferencesPolish Act of 8 March 1990 on gmina self-government, as amended(in Polish) Administrative divisions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teutonic State
The State of the Teutonic Order () was a theocratic state located along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe. It was formed by the knights of the Teutonic Order during the early 13th century Northern Crusades in the region of Prussia. In 1237, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword merged with the Teutonic Order of Prussia and became known as its branch – the Livonian Order (while their state, ''Terra Mariana'', covering present-day Estonia, Latvia, and a small part of Russia, became part of the State of the Teutonic Order). At its greatest territorial extent during the early 15th century, the State encompassed Chełmno Land, Courland, Gotland, Livonia, Estonia, Neumark, Pomerelia (Gdańsk Pomerania), Prussia and Samogitia. Following the battles of Grunwald in 1410 and Wilkomierz in 1435, the State fell into decline. After losing extensive territories in the imposed Peace of Thorn in 1466, the extant territory of its Prussian branch became known as Monastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
