Służewiec (Polish pronunciation: ) is a

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Mokotów Mokotów , is a ''dzielnica'' (borough, district) of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Mokotów is densely populated, and is a seat to many foreign embassies and companies. Only a small part of the district is lightly industrialised ('' Służewiec ...

district of

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From the 1990s, the former industrial part of Służewiec and the functionally related western part of Ksawerów began to be intensively developed with office buildings, resulting in the largest office complex in Poland. By 2016, 75 office buildings had been erected there. Due to communication problems (e.g. traffic jams and difficulties with parking), it gained an ironic name of

Mordor In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced ; from Sindarin ''Black Land'' and Quenya ''Land of Shadow'') is the realm and base of the evil Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, an ...

, a dark land from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Economy

Służewiec is the headquarters of many companies and public bodies, such as

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, Starcom,

Filmweb Filmweb is an online database of information related to films, television series, actors and film crew personnel. Since 2011, the database also contains video games. Filmweb was launched on March 18, 1998. It is a Polish-language site, and the l ...

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, LuxMed, Abbott Laboratories, Polska Grupa Prasowa, Ringier Axel Springer,

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, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, National Appeals Chamber,

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T-Mobile Polska T-Mobile Polska S.A. is a Polish mobile phone network operator. The company was formerly named Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (''lit.'' "Polish Digital Telephony") and operated under the name Era, until being rebranded as T-Mobile on 5 June 2011. As in ...

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Bank Polska, embassy of

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, and many others.

Infrastructure

* Tram Operation Plant R-3 Mokotów * R-1 Bus Depot * Warszawa Służewiec railway station * Fort VIIA of the Warsaw Fortress * Faculty of Applied Linguistics,

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* Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw (Szturmowa 1/3) * Parish church of Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Mordor in Warsaw

Varsovian Mordor is defined by the Domaniewska, Wołoska, Cybernetyki and Marynarska streets. One of the first new investments implemented in Mordor has been Curtis Plaza at Wołoska 18 (1991–1992). In the years 1995-2001, in the area of Domaniewska and Postępu streets, the Mokotów Business Park was built. In 2000 at Wołoska Street, Galeria Mokotów was commissioned. By 2019, 83 office buildings had been erected in the area. Their construction was ''de facto'' outside the control of the capital's local government and contributed to the creation of an office monoculture. The name Mordor was popularized by the Facebook fanpage "Mordor na Domaniewskiej" (''Mordor on Domaniewska''), which in 2018 had over 100,000 followers. In 2022, two crossing roads in Mordor were given names referring to the mythology of the

Middle-earth Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the '' Miðgarðr'' of Norse mythology and ''Middangeard'' in Old English works, including ''Beowulf''. Middle-earth is ...

: * road running from Suwak Street to the east, is named after J.R.R. Tolkien * road running from Konstruktorska Street to the north is named after

Gandalf Gandalf is a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels '' The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. He is a wizard, one of the ''Istari'' order, and the leader of the Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien took the name "Gandalf" from the Old Nor ...

The newspaper „Głos Mordoru” (Voice of Mordor) is published, addressed to employees of corporations based in Mordor.

Gallery

T-Mobile ul. Marynarska 12 w Warszawie 2021.jpg, Marynarska Street Siedziba Ringier Axel Springer Polska, ul. Domaniewska 49.jpg, Ringier Axel Springer Polska, Domaniewska Street Empark Mokotów Business Park 2020.jpg, Mokotów Business Park Myhive Park Postepu 27.jpg, Park Postępu Prokuratura Krajowa ul. Postępu 3 w Warszawie 2021.jpg, National Public Prosecutor's Office

References

External links

* Neighbourhoods of Mokotów Cross country running venues {{Warsaw-geo-stub