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Varsovia (en polaco: Warszawa; AFI: [varˈʂava] ⓘ) es la capital y ciudad más grande de Polonia desde 1596. Es también la sede del presidente de la República, del Parlamento y del resto de las autoridades centrales.
Warszawa, miasto stołeczne Warszawa (m.st. Warszawa) – stolica Polski i województwa mazowieckiego, najludniejsze miasto w kraju i drugie (po Gdańsku) pod względem powierzchni, położone w jego centralnej części, na Nizinie Środkowomazowieckiej, na Mazowszu, nad Wisłą.
The city area measures 517 km 2 (200 sq mi) and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers 6,100 km 2 (2,355 sq mi). [8] Warsaw is an alpha global city, [9] a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also capital of the Masovian Voivodeship .
- Early History
- 1529–1699
- 1700–1795
- 1795–1914
- World War I
- 1918–1939
- World War II
- Modern Times
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The first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw were Bródno (9th or 10th century), Kamion (11th century) and Jazdów (12th or 13th century). Bródno was a small settlement in the north-eastern part of today's Warsaw, burned about 1040 during the uprising of Miecław, one of the Mazovian local princes. Kamion was established about 1065 cl...
In 1529, Warsaw for the first time became the seat of the General Sejm, where it has remained ever since. To house the Sejm, an Italian architect, Giovanni di Quadro, was contracted to rebuild the King's Castle in the Renaissance style. The incorporation of Mazovia into the Polish Crown led to fast economic development, as illustrated by the rapid ...
A number of political circumstances ensured that after the death of King John III's, Poland–Lithuania entered into a period of decline relative to the other powers of Europe. A new king, the Saxon Prince-Elector Frederic Augustus was elected in 1697, who took the name Augustus II. The new monarch was more concerned with the fortunes of his mother c...
Warsaw remained the capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia to become the capital of the province of South Prussia. Liberated by Napoleon's army in 1806, Warsaw was made the capital of the newly created Duchy of Warsaw. Following the Congress of Vienna of 1815, Warsaw became the center...
After nearly one year of fighting on the Eastern Front, on 1 August 1915 the Imperial German Army under August von Mackensen finally entered Warsaw. The Russian army, during its Great Retreatfrom Poland, demolished all the Warsovian bridges—and the Poniatowski Bridge that had opened 18 months earlier—and took the equipment from the factories, which...
The first years of independence were very difficult: war havoc, hyperinflation and the Polish–Soviet War of 1920. In the course of this war, the Battle of Warsaw was fought on the Eastern outskirts of the city, and the capital was successfully defended and the Red Army defeated. Poland stopped, by itself, the full brunt of the Red Army and defeated...
The first bombs fell on Warsaw already on 1 September 1939, the first day of the Nazi German invasion of Poland. The most important representatives of civil and military administration (along with the Army's Commander-in-Chief, Marshall Edward Rydz-Śmigły) escaped to the Kingdom of Romania, taking with themselves much of the equipment and ammunitio...
In 1945, after the bombing, the revolts, the fighting, and the demolition had ended, most of Warsaw lay in ruins. Next to the remnants of Gothic architecture the ruins of splendid edifices from the time of Congress Polandand ferroconcrete relics of prewar building jutted out of the rubble. On 17 January 1945, the Soviet troops entered the left[clar...
Ossoliński Palace and Kazanowski Palacein 1656View of Warsaw from Pragain 1770View of Warsaw from the Royal Castlein 177312 de may. de 2024 · Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Warsaw, Poland (May 09, 2024) Recent News. May 12, 2024, 2:56 PM ET (AP) A fire burns down a shopping complex housing 1,400 outlets in Poland's capital. May 10, 2024, 8:55 AM ET (AP) Polish farmers march in Warsaw against EU climate policies and the country's pro-EU leader. May 1, 2024, 1:35 PM ET (AP)
Warsaw ( Polish: Warszawa) is Poland 's capital and largest city. Warsaw is a bustling metropolis and one of the European Union's fastest-developing capitals and the Union's ninth most populous urban centre. It has a mixture of new and old in its eclectic architectural mix, and is constantly changing.
2014. Area. 25.93 ha (64.1 acres) Buffer zone. 666.78 ha (1,647.6 acres) Warsaw Old Town, [a] also known as Old Town, [b] and historically known as Old Warsaw, [c] [1] is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Śródmieście. [2]
