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Władysławowo
Władysławowo (Kashubian language, Kashubian/Pomeranian language, Pomeranian: ''Wiôlgô Wies'' [ˈvʲɞlɡɞ ˈvʲɛs], ) is a city on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in Kashubia in the Pomerelia region, northern Poland, with 9,363 inhabitants as of 2022. History Imperial times In 1634 engineer Fryderyk Getkant designed a fort called Władysławowo located on the Hel Peninsula, several kilometers east of today's town of Władysławowo. It was officially recorded as a fort a year later. Pre-war era It was successfully built as a new town as a Polish fishing port in 1930s during the Polish Second Republic, with fishing a key part of the Economy of Poland, Polish economy at the time. Construction began in March 1936, and the new town was officially inaugurated on the 3 May 1938. World War II Fights to liberate the Hel Peninsula started on October 9, 1939. On that day, Nazi Germany, Nazi forces took Puck, Poland, Puck, and were ready to take Swarzewo. a On October 10, 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gmina Władysławowo
__NOTOC__ Gmina Władysławowo is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the city of Władysławowo. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2013 its total population was around 15,400. In years 1973-2014, gmina constituted an urban gmina. This changed on January 1, 2015, when it became an urban-rural gmina. Villages Apart from the town of Władysławowo, Gmina Władysławowo contains seven villages: Chałupy, Chłapowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Chłapowo, Jastrzębia Góra, Karwia, Ostrowo, Puck County, Ostrowo, Rozewie, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Rozewie and Tupadły, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Tupadły. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gmina Wladyslawowo Gminas in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Wladyslawowo Puck County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chałupy
Chałupy (, ) is a seaside resort and a Polish village with conditions favorable for windsurfing and kitesurfing, in Gmina Władysławowo. It is situated between Władysławowo and Kuźnica on the Hel Peninsula on the southern Baltic Sea in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. Its population in 2009 was 376. In 1836 the village was the site of one of the last, if not the last, lynchings related to accusations of sorcery, when a widow Krystyna Ceynowa was killed by a mob after being accused of being a witch. In 1939 the village saw some fighting during the battle of Hel. The Germans captured it on 25 September, and around the same time, in its vicinity, Polish military engineers detonated torpedo warheads, temporarily transforming the Peninsula's far end into an island. Before 1 January 2015, Chałupy was part of the town of Władysławowo. Toward the last years of communist rule in Poland the locality became famous as the site of a government-legal nudist bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puck County
__NOTOC__ Puck County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. The ''powiat'' of this name existed in the history of Poland, since the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth up to 1795, and then reintroduced in 1999. Modern Puck County The modern Puck County came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the town of Puck, which lies north of the regional capital Gdańsk. The county contains three other towns: Władysławowo, north of Puck, Jastarnia, east of Puck, and Hel, east of Puck, at the tip of the Hel Peninsula. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 85,211, out of which the population of Puck is 11,213, that of Władysławowo is 9,930, that of Hel is 3,267, that of Jastarnia is 2,704, and the rural population is 58,097. ''Puck County on a map o ... [...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] |
Kashubian Language
Kashubian () or Cassubian (; ; ) is a West Slavic language belonging to the Lechitic subgroup.Stephen Barbour, Cathie Carmichael, ''Language and Nationalism in Europe'', Oxford University Press, 2000, p.199, In Poland, it has been an officially recognized ethnic-minority language since 2005. Approximately 87,600 people use mainly Kashubian at home. It is the only remnant of the Pomeranian language. It is close to standard Polish with influence from Low German and the extinct Polabian (West Slavic) and Old Prussian (West Baltic) languages. The Kashubian language exists in two different forms: vernacular dialects used in rural areas, and literary variants used in education. Origin Kashubian is assumed to have evolved from the language spoken by some tribes of Pomeranians called Kashubians, in the region of Pomerania, on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers. It first began to evolve separately in the period from the thirteenth to the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hel Peninsula
Hel Peninsula (; ; ; or ''Putziger Nehrung'') is a sand bar peninsula in northern Poland separating the Bay of Puck from the open Baltic Sea. It is located in Puck County of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Name The name of the peninsula might come from either the Old Polish word ''hyl''/''hel'', meaning "empty or exposed place", or the Germanic word ''heel'', which is derived from the form of the peninsula and the fact that the area was first settled by the Goths, an East Germanic tribe. Geography The width of the peninsula varies from approximately near Jurata to in the most narrow part to over at the tip. Since the peninsula is formed entirely of sand, it is frequently turned into an island by winter storms. Until the 17th century, the peninsula was a chain of islands that formed a strip of land only in the summer. A road and a railroad run along the peninsula from the mainland to the town at the furthest point, Hel, a popular tourist destination. Other towns, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashubia
Kashubia or Cassubia ( or ; ; or ) is an ethnocultural region in the historic Eastern Pomerania (Pomerelia) region of northern Poland. It is inhabited by the Kashubian people, and many in the region have historically spoken the Kashubian language, with some still speaking it. The unofficial self-description of "capital city of Kashubia" has long been contested by Kartuzy and Kościerzyna. Location and geography Located west of Gdańsk (inclusive of all but the easternmost district) and the mouth of the Vistula river, it is inhabited by members of the Kashubians, Kashubian ethnic group. The region is home to the Kashubian Lake District. According to the 1999 basic study ''Geografia współczesnych Kaszub'' (Geography of present-day Kashubia) by the Gdańsk scholar Jan Mordawski 43 municipalities (''gminas'') of the Pomeranian Voivodeship have a Kashubian share of at least one third of the total population: * Cities: Gdynia (''Gdiniô'') * Bytów County (''Bëtowsczi kréz''): ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Navy
The Polish Navy (; often abbreviated to ) is the Navy, naval military branch , branch of the Polish Armed Forces. The Polish Navy consists of 46 ships and about 12,000 commissioned and enlisted personnel. The traditional ship prefix in the Polish Navy is ORP (). Origins The Polish Navy has its roots in naval vessels that were largely employed on Poland's main rivers in defense of trade and commerce. During the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66), Thirteen Years' War (1454–66), a small force of ships that primarily operated on rivers and lakes saw real open sea battles for the first time. At the Battle of Vistula Lagoon, a combined fleet of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the pro-Polish Prussian Confederation decisively defeated the navy of the Teutonic Knights, and secured permanent access to the Baltic Sea. In 1454, the maritime city of Gdańsk was re-incorporated to Poland after being previously Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk), occupied by the Teut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Władysław IV Vasa
Władysław IV Vasa or Ladislaus IV (9 June 1595 – 20 May 1648) was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and claimant of the thrones of Monarchy of Sweden, Sweden and List of Russian monarchs, Russia. Born into the House of Vasa as a prince of Poland and of Sweden, Władysław IV was the eldest son of Sigismund III House of Vasa, Vasa and Sigismund's first wife, Anna of Austria (1573–1598), Anna of Austria. Władysław was elected as the tsar of Russia by the Seven Boyars in 1610, when the Polish–Russian War (1609–1618), Polish army captured Moscow, but did not assume the throne because of his father's position and a popular uprising. Nevertheless, until 1634, he used the titular title of grand duke of Moscow. Following his Free election (Poland), election as king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania in 1632, he was largely successful in defending the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against foreign invasion, most notably in the Smolensk War of 1632–1634 in which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the world's largest brackish water basin. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. It is a Continental shelf#Shelf seas, shelf sea and marginal sea of the Atlantic with limited water exchange between the two, making it an inland sea. The Baltic Sea drains through the Danish straits into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, Great Belt and Little Belt. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia (divided into the Bothnian Bay and the Bothnian Sea), the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga and the Bay of Gdańsk. The "Baltic Proper" is bordered on its northern edge, at latitude 60°N, by Åland and the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga, and in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fryderyk Getkant
Fryderyk Getkant or Frederick Getkant (, , ) (1600 – 1666) was a Prussian military engineer of Lithuanian descent, artillery lieutenant and cartographer. He was born in Ragnit or according to other sources in Rhineland, Holy Roman Empire. He is also known as a first to have written down a Lithuanian folk song with melody, in 1634. From the 1620s he worked in Pomeranian Voivodeship – Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, on the problems of defence, especially those related to King Władysław IV Vasa's short-time maritime interests (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy). He was one of the engineers working on fortifications in Großendorf (Władysławowo) and at Hela where Pomerania and Royal Prussia meet, (now Hel Peninsula) together with Johann Pleitner. Under the threat of Russian military invasion Getkant organised reconstruction of Vilnius military objects. He also prepared city plans for Kaunas, Tauragė and Virbalis. Author of many plans, maps and atlases (especia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomeranian Language
The Pomeranian language ( or ; or ) is in the Lechitic languages#Languages, Pomeranian group of Lechitic languages (; ) within the West Slavic languages. In medieval contexts, it refers to the dialects spoken by the Pomeranians (Slavic tribe), Slavic Pomeranians. In modern contexts, the term is sometimes used synonymously with "Kashubian language, Kashubian" and may also include extinct Slovincian language, Slovincian. The name ''Pomerania'' comes from Slavic languages, Slavic , which means "[land] by the sea". Ancient Pomeranian During the early Middle Ages, early medieval Slavic migrations, the area between the Oder and Vistula rivers Pomerania during the Early Middle Ages, was settled by tribes grouped as Pomeranians (Slavic tribe), Pomeranians. Their dialects, sometimes referred to as Ancient Pomeranian, had a transitory character between the Polabian language, Polabian dialects spoken west of Pomerania and the Old Polish language, Old Polish dialects spoken to the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
