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Borków, Warsaw
Borków is a neighbourhood in Warsaw, Poland, within the district of Wawer. It is a part of the municipal neighbourhood and the City Information System area of Radość. It is a residencial area of single-family housing.Studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego miasta stołecznego Warszawy ze zmianami'. Warsaw: Warsaw City Council, 1 March 2018, pp. 10–14. (in Polish) History Borków was founded in the 15th century, as a small farming community.Henryk Wierzchowski: ''Zerzeń i jego historia''. Warsaw: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Warszawy − Oddział Grochów, 1999, ISBN 83-911202-0-2. (in Polish) In 1918, at the current Mrówcza Street, was opened the Borków Warszawski railway station. It was part of the Jabłonna Railroad narrow-gauge line. The station was closed in 1951. On 14 May 1951, Borków was incorporated into the city of Warsaw. In 2004, the district of Wawer was subdivided into the areas of the City Information System, with Borkó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts And Neighbourhoods Of Warsaw
Warsaw is a city with powiat rights, and is further divided into 18 districts (''dzielnica'' ), auxiliary units which are integral parts of the city as an entity, but with some limited powers devolved to their own local self-governments. The current division into quarters was established in 2002. The 18 districts are informally divided broadly into the inner and outer city quarters, as follows: *inner city districts **Śródmieście **Mokotów **Ochota **Wola **Żoliborz **Praga Południe **Praga Północ *outer city (or "wreath") districts **Bemowo **Białołęka **Bielany **Rembertów **Targówek **Ursus **Ursynów **Wawer **Wesoła **Wilanów **Włochy Districts of Warsaw Neighbourhoods Each of the districts is customarily subdivided into several smaller areas, known under the designation of a neighbourhood (''osiedle Osiedle (Polish plural: ''osiedla'', from German ''Ansiedlung'' meaning ''settlement'') is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voivodeships Of Poland
A voivodeship (; pl, województwo ; plural: ) is the highest-level 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 Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, which went into effect on 1 January 1999, created sixteen new voivodeships. These replaced the 49 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 from nearly one million (Opole Voivodeship) to over five million (Masovian Voivodeship). Administrative authority at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masovian Voivodeship
The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. The voivodeship has an area of and, as of 2019, a population of 5,411,446, making it the largest and most populated voivodeship of Poland. Its principal cities are Warsaw (1.783 million) in the centre of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Radom (212,230) in the south, Płock (119,709) in the west, Siedlce (77,990) in the east, and Ostrołęka (52,071) in the north. The province was created on 1 January 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province's name recalls the traditional name of the region, Mazovia, with which it is roughly coterminous. However, southern part of the voivodeship, with Radom, historically belong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City With Powiat Rights
A city with powiat rights ( pl, miasto na prawach powiatu) 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 ( pl, powiat), thus being an independent city. Sometimes, such a city will also be referred to in Polish as city county ( pl, powiat grodzki); 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' ( pl, powiaty ziemskie), 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 of Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wawer
Wawer is one of the districts of Warsaw, located in the south-eastern part of the city. The Vistula river runs along its western border. Wawer became a district of Warsaw on 27 October 2002 (previously it was a part of Praga Południe district, and a municipality earlier). Wawer borders Praga Południe and Rembertów from the north, Wesoła from the east and Wilanów with Mokotów from the west (across the Vistula). Boroughs *Aleksandrów *Anin *Falenica * Las *Marysin Wawerski *Miedzeszyn *Międzylesie *Nadwiśle *Radość *Sadul *Wawer *Zerzeń. History The name Wawer comes from the name of the Wawer inn (''Karczma Wawer'', currently known as ''Zajazd Napoleoński''). The oldest mention of the tavern comes from 1727, and the Wawer colony was established in 1838. First settlers appeared in 1839. During the November Uprising, the first and second Wawer battles took place here in early 1831. On the night of 26/27 December 1939 German occupants committed the Wawer ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Information System (Warsaw)
Warsaw is a city with powiat rights, and is further divided into 18 districts ('' dzielnica'' ), auxiliary units which are integral parts of the city as an entity, but with some limited powers devolved to their own local self-governments. The current division into quarters was established in 2002. The 18 districts are informally divided broadly into the inner and outer city quarters, as follows: *inner city districts **Śródmieście **Mokotów **Ochota **Wola **Żoliborz **Praga Południe **Praga Północ *outer city (or "wreath") districts **Bemowo **Białołęka **Bielany **Rembertów **Targówek **Ursus **Ursynów **Wawer **Wesoła **Wilanów **Włochy Districts of Warsaw Neighbourhoods Each of the districts is customarily subdivided into several smaller areas, known under the designation of a neighbourhood ('' osiedle''), a unit with no legal or administrative powers, used for statistics or as a designation within the city localization system (Miejski System Informac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radość, Warsaw
Radość is a Districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, municipal neighbourhood, and a City Information System of Warsaw, City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Wawer. It is a residencial area of single-family housing. In the 15th century, in the area were founded the villages of Borków, Warsaw, Borków, Zagóźdź, Warsaw, Zagóźdź, and Zbójna Góra. At the end of the 19th century, near Zbójna Góra was founded a small holiday village of Radość, and in the early 20th century, there was also established Nowy Miedzeszyn. In 1951, the area was incorporated into Warsaw. Etymology The name of the neighbourhood comes from Polish language, Polish word ''radość'', meaning ''joy''. When originally founded, in the late 19th century, it was briefly known as Maciorowe Bagno, with the name coming from a nearby peatland to the east with the same name. History In the 15th century in the area were founded the villages of Borków, Warsaw, Bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. It is used in most parts of Europe and in a few North African countries. CET is also known as Middle European Time (MET, German: MEZ) and by colloquial names such as Amsterdam Time, Berlin Time, Brussels Time, Madrid Time, Paris Time, Rome Time, Warsaw Time or even Romance Standard Time (RST). The 15th meridian east is the central axis for UTC+01:00 in the world system of time zones. As of 2011, all member states of the European Union observe summer time (daylight saving time), from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. States within the CET area switch to Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00) for the summer. In Africa, UTC+01:00 is called West Africa Time (WAT), where it is used by several countries, year round. Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia also refer to it as ''Central European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia. Names Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST), Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT), and Bravo Time (after the second letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet). Period of observation Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. There were proposals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Information System Of Warsaw
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
