Maciamo said:
I know that Poland was part of Germany and Russia until 1918, although there was a Duchy of Warsaw (?) at the time of the Napoleonic Empire. The country is mostly flat, and the main cities are Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Krakowice, Krakow...
Polish language is a Slavic language related to Russian, Czech or Slovak (among others).
The population of Poland is about 39 million, and that it gives Poland enough political weight to cause trouble in the EU constitution talks as they insist on mentioning Christianity. Polish people are mostly Catholics, and Pope John Paul II is from Poland.
Could you be more specific about what kind of knowledge of Poland you are asking ?
Austria, Germany and Russia were occuping Poland since 1772 (Poland was completely occupied since 1795) till 1918. Only for these countries we were part of their countries.
Yes, there was Duchy of Warsaw which lasted 1807-1815. It's land was more than Warsaw actually. (here you can find map:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Ksiestwo_Warszawskie_1809.jpg )
Hmmm... Any knowledge you have about Poland.
What are the People like too. Or anybody else who is from Poland exceprt for John Pope II?
@ Wow, Mycernius, you did travel a lot, I suppose. So, what do you think about Poland and Polish people? What did you like and what not?
@ Miss Apollo, yes Wałęsa is an important person in our history. And that's good that he was given Peace Nobel Prize in 1983.
@ TenMonGakuSha, Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote Ogniem i mieczem, Pan Wołodyjowski, Potop, Quo Vaids (he was given a Nobel Prize in literature for this in 1905) etc. Did you like the books?
There were films based on Pan Wołodyjowski, Potop, Ogniem i Mieczem (this is so called "trylogy") and also on Quo Vadis.
Does somebody know another Polish writer Lem? He wrote among the other things Solaris.
It looks like you know quite something about Poland.
I hope that's all the truth.
Not like the things that Poland started the II world war atacking Germans etc.