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Chrząszczewska Island
Chrząszczewska Island is an island in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, with an area of . It is located in Kamieński Lagoon, in Kamień County, linked with the mainland by bridge around the town of Kamień Pomorski. The island is limited by Kamieński Lagoon to the north, Promna Bay to the east, Cicha Bay to the south and the river of Dziwna to the west and south-west. There are three villages on Chrząszczewska Island: Chrząszczewo, Chrząszczewko and Buniewice Buniewice (german: Bünnewitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kamień Pomorski, within Kamień County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately west of Kamień Pomorski and north of the .... In the western part of the island, there is a hill called Wyżawa (26.6 metres tall). In the area located to the north from the village of Chrząszczewo, there is a megalithic burial mound and oil wells. During World War II, German rocket launcher ...
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West Pomeranian Voivodeship
The West Pomeranian Voivodeship, also known as the West Pomerania Province, is a voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals 22 892.48 km² (8,838.84 sq mi), and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1 682 003 people. It was established on 1 January 1999, out of the former Szczecin and Koszalin Voivodeships and parts of Gorzów, Piła and Słupsk Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. It borders on Pomeranian Voivodeship to the east, Greater Poland Voivodeship to the southeast, Lubusz Voivodeship to the south, the German federal-states of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and Brandenburg to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north.Ustawa z dnia 24 lipca 1998 r. o wprowadzeniu zasadniczego trójstopniowego podziału terytorialnego państwa (Dz.U. z 1998 r. nr 96, poz. 603). Geography and tourism West Pomeranian Voivodeship is the fifth largest voivodeship of Poland in terms of ...
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Kamieński Lagoon
Kamieński Lagoon is a lagoon on the Oder River in north-western Poland. It is part of the Dziwna. Both the lagoon and the Dziwna are part of Poland's internal waters. Several settlements lie on the shores of the lagoon, notably (in order of population) Kamień Pomorski, Dziwnów, Międzywodzie, Wrzosowo and Dziwnówek. There are also three small villages on Chrząszczewska Island: Chrząszczewo, Chrząszczewko and Buniewice. Until 1945, the lagoon was referred to by its German name of ''Camminer Bodden''. In 1949, it officially became called ''Kamieński Zalew'', and in 1991 the words in its name were reversed, its new name being ''Zalew Kamieński''. Gallery File:Wolin-Topomap.png, alt= A map of the Kamieński Lagoon and its surroundings., A map of the Kamieński Lagoon and its surroundings. File:Poland - Royal Stone by Chrzaszczewska Island.jpg, alt=A view of the lagoon from Chrząszczewska Island, A view of the lagoon from Chrząszczewska Island. File:Molo Kamień Pomo ...
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Kamień County
__NOTOC__ Kamień County ( pl, powiat kamieński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast. It existed from 1944 to 1975 and was re-established in its current form on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Kamień Pomorski, which lies north of the regional capital Szczecin. The county contains four other towns: Międzyzdroje, west of Kamień Pomorski, Wolin, south-west of Kamień Pomorski, Dziwnów, north-west of Kamień Pomorski, and Golczewo, south-east of Kamień Pomorski. The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 47,604, out of which the population of Kamień Pomorski is 9,134, that of Misdroy is 5,436, that of Wolin is 4,878, that of Dziwnów is 2,949, that of Golczewo is 2,724, and the rural population is 22,483. Neighbouring counties Kamień County is ...
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Kamień Pomorski
Kamień Pomorski (; csb, Kamiéń; german: Cammin or ''Kammin'') is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast. It is the seat of an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kamień County which lies approximately 63 km to the north of the regional capital Szczecin. It is the second seat of the Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień and the deanery of Kamień. Kamień is the first known capital of the Duchy of Pomerania. In 2015 the town had a population of 8,921 inhabitants. Etymology and names The name of the town has its origins in the Wendish language. The first mentions of the town appeared in the ''Life of Otton from Bamberg'',''Civitas ducis Camina'' by Herbord, ''Castrum magnum Gamin'' by Eb, and ''In urbe Games''. Other names are ''Chamin'' and ''Camyna''. A bull of 14 October 1140 has the mention of ''Chamin cum taberna et foro''. In a bull of 25 February 1188 there is ''apud civitated Camyn''. Ultimately the name '' ...
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Dziwna
The Dziwna () is a channel of the Oder River in northwestern Poland, one of three straits connecting the Oder Lagoon with the Bay of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea. It separates the island of Wolin from the rest of the Polish mainland. The other two channels are the Świna and the Peene. About in length, the Dziwna forms on the eastern end of the Szczecin Lagoon, near the town of Zagórze, Kamień County. Flowing north, it passes the town of Wolin and then widens and forms a number of connected features. Towards the west the main channel of the Dziwna forms the large Kamieński Lagoon (''Polish: Zalew Kamieński''). To the east a side channel develops into the Zatoka Cicha (''Quiet Bay'', known as ''Die Maad'' before 1949), flows north through the strait of Promna as it approaches the city of Kamień Pomorski, then rejoins the Kamieński Lagoon. Between these two channels stands the small, largely agricultural island of Chrząszczewo connected to Kamień Pomorski by a single ...
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Chrząszczewo, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Chrząszczewo (german: Gristow) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kamień Pomorski, within Kamień County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. The village has a population of 150. See also History of Pomerania The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and Pol ... References Villages in Kamień County {{Kamień-geo-stub ...
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Chrząszczewko
Chrząszczewko is a hamlet on Chrząszczewska Island on Kamieński Lagoon, in north-west 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 .... It has a population of 210. Villages in Kamień County {{Kamień-geo-stub ...
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Buniewice
Buniewice (german: Bünnewitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kamień Pomorski, within Kamień County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately west of Kamień Pomorski and north of the regional capital Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s .... The village has an approximate population of 300. References Villages in Kamień County {{Kamień-geo-stub ...
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ...
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Landforms Of West Pomeranian Voivodeship
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are the fou ...
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