The Piaśnica is a river in northern

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, in

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near

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, in

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. It begins inside the

Puszcza Darżlubska ''Puszcza Darżlubska'' () or ''Lasy Piaśnickie'' (), located in the northernmost part of Poland, is a Polish forests, Polish forests complex on the Baltic Sea, within the geographical region of ''Pobrzeże Kaszubskie''; on the south-side ...

Wilderness, located in the northernmost part of the geographical region of Pobrzeże Kaszubskie. Darżlubie Forest (also referred to in

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as ''Lasy Piaśnickie'') contains two

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( Polish protected areas). On the south–side it borders the Tricity Landscape Park from which, it is separated by the

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river. The wilderness, is also the source of river Gizdepka. The name of Piaśnica comes from the nearby villages of Piaśnica Mała and Piaśnica Wielka. The Piaśnica wilderness, where the river begins, is a place of Polish and Jewish

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; the second largest site of mass killings of Polish civilians in

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(after Stutthof) during

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. see also
"Polish Prime Minister at the anniversary celebrations in Piaśnica"
, (paragraph 2, line 2) by

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The Mass murders in Piaśnica, of about 12,000–16,000 hostages (mostly intelligentsia), were committed by the Nazis between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 near the town of Wielka Piaśnica. The Piaśnica flows through

Lake Żarnowiec Lake Żarnowiec is located in the Pomorze Voivodeship. It is long, wide and has a depth of . The river Piaśnica cuts through it. The Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant was supposed to be built next to it. It now serves as the lower reservoir for ...

and terminates into the

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near

Żarnowiec Żarnowiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krokowa, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies close to Żarnowieckie Lake, approximately west of Krokowa, north-west of Puck, and north-west ...

Notes and references

Rzeka Piaśnica, at www.polwysep.pl

Kayaking on Piaśnica

Scuba-diving at Piaśnica
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