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Zawoja
Zawoja is a village in southern Poland located close to Maków Podhalański. It is situated in Sucha County ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship). With neighbouring village of Skawica it constitutes a rural Zawoja Commune. It has 6,200 inhabitants (2001) and is often mentioned as one of the biggest Polish villages. It is also very often referred as the longest one as it stretches for about 20 kilometres in a picturesque mountain valley. It lies approximately south of Sucha Beskidzka and south-west of the regional capital Kraków. It is situated close to a mountain massif of Babia Góra (1725 m). The headquarters of Babia Góra National Park is located here. Since 19th century Zawoja is one of the important mountain resorts in Poland. It is known for its wooden architecture and folk culture of Babia Góra Gorals The Gorals ( pl, Górale; Goral dialect: ''Górole''; sk, Gorali; Cieszyn Silesia dialect, Cieszyn Silesian: ''Gorole''), also known as the Highlanders (in Poland as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zawoja Commune
__NOTOC__ Gmina Zawoja is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sucha County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its seat is the village of Zawoja, which lies approximately south of Sucha Beskidzka and south-west of the regional capital Kraków. The gmina also contains the village of Skawica. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 8,849. Neighbouring gminas Gmina Zawoja is bordered by the gminas of Bystra-Sidzina, Jabłonka, Koszarawa, Lipnica Wielka, Maków Podhalański and Stryszawa. It also borders Slovakia. ReferencesPolish official population figures 2006 {{Sucha County Zawoja Zawoja is a village in southern Poland located close to Maków Podhalański. It is situated in Sucha County ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship). With neighbouring village of Skawica it constitutes a rural Zawoja Commune. It has 6,200 inhabitants (200 ... Sucha County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gmina Zawoja
__NOTOC__ Gmina Zawoja is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sucha County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its seat is the village of Zawoja, which lies approximately south of Sucha Beskidzka and south-west of the regional capital Kraków. The gmina also contains the village of Skawica. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 8,849. Neighbouring gminas Gmina Zawoja is bordered by the gminas of Bystra-Sidzina, Jabłonka, Koszarawa, Lipnica Wielka, Maków Podhalański and Stryszawa. It also borders Slovakia. ReferencesPolish official population figures 2006 {{Sucha County Zawoja Zawoja is a village in southern Poland located close to Maków Podhalański. It is situated in Sucha County ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship). With neighbouring village of Skawica it constitutes a rural Zawoja Commune. It has 6,200 inhabitants (200 ... Sucha County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skawica
Skawica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zawoja, within Sucha County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It lies approximately east of Zawoja, south of Sucha Beskidzka, and south-west of the regional capital Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 .... The village has a population of 2,600. References Villages in Sucha County {{Sucha-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucha County
__NOTOC__ Sucha County ( pl, powiat suski) is a ''mogus'' of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its administrative seat and largest town is Sucha Beskidzka, which lies south-west of the voivodeship capital Kraków. The county also contains the towns of Maków Podhalański, lying east of Sucha Beskidzka, and Jordanów, south-east of Sucha Beskidzka. The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 82,045, out of which the population of Sucha Beskidzka is 9,726, that of Maków Podhalański is 5,738, that of Jordanów is 5,112, and the rural population is 61,469. History Sucha County existed between 1956 and 1975, but on the abolition of the powiats its territory was split between the two newly created voivodeships of Bielsko-Biała and Nowy Sącz. The county was recreated on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998, which restor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LOT Polish Airlines Flight LO 165
LOT Polish Airlines Flight LO 165 was an Antonov An-24 aircraft, registration SP-LTF, operating a scheduled passenger flight from Warsaw to Krakow Balice airport. It crashed into a mountain on 2 April 1969 at 16:08 local time (UTC+1) during a snowstorm. All 53 people (47 passengers and 6 crew) on board were killed. Flight history Introduction Much of the known information about the accident comes from two newspaper articles published in 1994. Their author wrote that, even 25 years after the accident, most documentation on the crash remained classified. Reports were based on the accounts of participants in the rescue action and some members of the accident investigation commission who asked for anonymity. Flight The aircraft took off at 15:20 local time for a 55-minute flight to Krakow's Balice Airport. The captain was Czesław Doliński. At 15.49, the first officer received instructions to descend to and get in touch with Balice control tower after passing Jędrzejów, les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polica (mountain)
Polica, locally known as ''Police'', is a mountain, , in southern Poland near Zawoja, in the Żywiec Beskids mountain range. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 crashed on the northern slope of Police on 2 April 1969. The accident spot is marked by a cross, erected in the 1990s. Until 1918, Polica was on the border between Galicia and Hungary, and between 1918 and 1920 on the Polish-Czechoslovak Czechoslovak may refer to: *A demonym or adjective pertaining to Czechoslovakia (1918–93) **First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–38) **Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–39) **Third Czechoslovak Republic (1948–60) **Fourth Czechoslovak Repub ... border. References Mountains of Poland Landforms of Lesser Poland Voivodeship {{LesserPoland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorals
The Gorals ( pl, Górale; Goral dialect: ''Górole''; sk, Gorali; Cieszyn Silesia dialect, Cieszyn Silesian: ''Gorole''), also known as the Highlanders (in Poland as the Polish Highlanders) are an indigenous ethnographic or ethnic group primarily found in their traditional area of southern Poland, northern Slovakia and in the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic, where they are known as the Silesian Gorals. There is also a significant Goral diaspora in the area of Bukovina in western Ukraine and in northern Romania, as well as in Chicago, the seat of the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America. History In the 13th century, Vlach shepherds migrated to the Divisions of the Carpathians#Western Carpathians (province), Western Carpathian mountains, gradually moving northwest from the Balkans and settling on History of Poland during the Piast dynasty, Polish lands there. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Gorals settled the upper Kysuca and Orava (river), Orava rivers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babia Góra National Park
Babia Góra National Park ( pl, Babiogórski Park Narodowy) is one of the 23 national parks in Poland, located in the southern part of the country, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, on the border with Slovakia. The park has its headquarters in the village of Zawoja. The park covers an area of , of which forests occupy . The park includes the northern and part of the southern side of the Babia Góra massif, of which the main peak (also known as ''Diablak'') is the highest point of the Orava Beskids mountain range at . There is a protected area Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area on the Slovak side of the massif. The area of Babia Góra was first brought under legal protection in 1933, when the Babia Góra Reserve was created. On October 30, 1954, it was designated a National Park. Since 1976 it has been listed by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve under the Man and the Biosphere (MaB) programme. The area of the biosphere reserve was extended in 2001. Fauna *105 species of birds (includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babia Góra
Babia Góra (in Polish), or Babia hora (in Slovak), literally Old Wives' or Witches' Mountain, is a massif situated on the border between Poland and Slovakia in the Western Beskid Mountains. The name is also applied to the culmination of the massif, Diablak ("Devil's Peak"), which is also the highest peak of this part of the Carpathian Mountains, at above sea level. History Babia Góra was first mentioned in the 15th century chronicle of Jan Długosz. It was first plotted on a map in 1558. Until the end of the 17th century most of the available information on the mountain came from folklore. According to folk tales, the mountain was the location of the witches' sabbath. The first known ascent was made in 1782 by the court astronomer of King Stanislaus Augustus, Jowin Fryderyk Alojzy Bystrzycki, Bończa coat of arms. The period of scientific investigations began in the second half of the 19th century. Nature Gentle from the south, steep from the north, Babia Góra is home to ... [...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] |
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities, its Old Town with Wawel Royal Castle was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, one of the first 12 sites granted the status. The city has grown from a Stone Age settlement to Poland's second-most-important city. It began as a hamlet on Wawel Hill and was reported by Ibrahim Ibn Yakoub, a merchant from Cordoba, as a busy trading centre of Central Europe in 985. With the establishment of new universities and cultural venues at the emergence of the Second Polish Republic in 1918 and throughout the 20th century, Kraków reaffirmed its role as a major national academic and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucha Beskidzka
Sucha Beskidzka (before 1961 called only ''Sucha'') is a town in the '' Beskid Żywiecki'' mountain range in southern Poland, on the Skawa river. It is the county seat of Sucha County. It has been in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975–1998). Location Sucha Beskidzka lies in a basin, between the hills of the Beskids (Beskid Makowski and Beskid Maly), on the Skawa river. In 2002, Sucha had the area of 27,46 km2., with forests occupying 44%. The town is a rail junction, located along two lines – the 97th from Skawina to Żywiec, and the 98th from Sucha Beskidzka to Chabowka. The rail station PKP Sucha Beskidzka, together with a roundhouse was built in the 1880s. Until 1964, the town was called Sucha. The adjective Beskidzka, added in that year, refers to the Beskidy Mountains. History In the late Middle Ages, the area of Sucha Beskidzka belonged to Duchy of Oświęcim. In the early years of the 15th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
