What district in Warsaw is named after a Polish engineer, general, and national hero of Poland?
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Bemowo Bemowo is a district of Warsaw located in the western part of the city. Its territory covers the western belt of the former district of Wola, which was incorporated to Warsaw in the year 1951. The name of the district derives from the surname of General Józef Bem.
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Józef Bem Józef Zachariasz Bem (Hungarian: "Bem József" , Turkish: "Murat Pasha" ; March 14, 1794, Tarnów – December 10, 1850, Aleppo) was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms. Like Tadeusz Kościuszko (who fought in the American War of Independence) and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (who fought alongside Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy and in the French Invasion of Russia), Bem fought outside Poland's borders for the future of Poland anywhere his leadership and military skills were needed.
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Wełnowiec-Józefowiec Wełnowiec-Józefowiec (German: "Hohenlohehütte-Josephsdorf" ) is a district of Katowice. It has an area of 3.15 km and in 2007 had 15.924 inhabitants.
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Grzybowski Square Grzybowski Square is a triangular square in the Śródmieście (downtown) district of Warsaw, between Twarda, Bagno, Grzybowska and Królewska streets.
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Rosoła Street, Warsaw Jana Rosoła street (Polish: "ulica Jana Rosoła" ) is one of the three main thoroughfares of Warsaw's borough of Ursynów. Named after Jan Rosół, participant of the January Uprising, it links Wąwozowa Street in the southernmost neighbourhood of Kabaty with the Dolina Służewiecka, that is Warsaw's section of National road 2, itself part of European route E30. The street was planned in the 1970s as one of principal arteries of the planned residential area of Ursynów, where most of road traffic would be channelled. Most other streets in the borough serve for local traffic only, or connect the three principal arteries. The street itself started to be built in 1975, two years later the first plattenbau blocks of flats were completed in Ursynów.
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Warsaw Babice Airport Warsaw-Babice (ICAO code: EPBC) is an airport in Warsaw, located in the residential district of Bemowo, near the border with the district of Bielany. It is also unofficially known as Bemowo.
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Muranów Muranów is a neighborhood consisting mainly of housing estates in the districts of Śródmieście and Wola in Warsaw. It was founded in the 17th century. The name is derived from the palace belonging to Józef Bellotti, a Venetian architect. The name of the estate comes from the island of Murano.
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Warsaw concentration camp The Warsaw concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Warschau , short KL or KZ Warschau) was an associated group of the German Nazi concentration camps, including an extermination camp, located in German-occupied Warsaw, capital city of Poland. Its main target was the Polish population of the city.
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Pole Mokotowskie metro station Metro Pole Mokotowskie is a station on Line M1 of the Warsaw Metro, located in the Mokotów district of Warsaw. It is named after the Pole Mokotowskie park nearby. It is located very close to the Warsaw School of Economics.
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Osiedle Piasta II, Białystok Osiedle Piasta II is one of the districts of the Polish city of Białystok. Named after the royal Piast dynasty.
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Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks (Polish: "Huta im. T. Sendzimira" ) is the second largest steel plant in Poland. It opened on July 22, 1954 in a newly built, easternmost district of Kraków called Nowa Huta. The steelworks as well as the district were located in the area formerly occupied by the village of Mogiła and surrounding farmland.
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Ligota-Panewniki Ligota - Panewniki (German: "Ellgoth-Panewnik" ; also "Idaweiche") is a district of Katowice in Poland. It has an area of 12.59 km and in 2007 had 31,879 inhabitants.
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Jerusalem Avenue Jerusalem Avenue (Polish: "Aleje Jerozolimskie" ) is one of the principal streets of the city of Warsaw in Poland. It runs through the City Centre along the East-West axis, linking the western borough of Wola with the bridge on the Vistula River and the borough of Praga on the other side of the river.
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Warsaw–Terespol railway The Warsaw − Terespol Railway (Polish: "Kolej Warszawsko − Terespolska" , Russian: Варшавско-Тереспольская железная дорога ) is a 211 km long railway in Poland, opened in 1866 between Warsaw and Terespol, as a part of the railway between Warsaw and Moscow.
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City walls of Warsaw City walls of Warsaw are walls around Warsaw Old Town. They are composed of two lines: inner and outer, with several gates round the city. Originally raised between the 13th and 16th centuries, then rebuilt in 1950–1963, partly later. The best-preserved fragments of the fortification are those parallel to Podwale street, from the Warsaw Royal Castle to the Barbican Barbican and further to the Vistula Embankment.
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Józef Sowiński Józef Sowiński (1777–1831) was a Polish artillery general and one of the heroes of Poland's November 1830 Uprising.
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Warsaw Citadel Warsaw Citadel (Polish: Cytadela Warszawska) is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland. It was built by order of Tsar Nicholas I after the suppression of the 1830 November Uprising in order to bolster imperial Russian control of the city. It served as a prison into the late 1930s, especially the dreaded Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel ("X Pawilon Cytadeli Warszawskiej"); the latter has been a museum since 1963.
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Tadeusz Kościuszko Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko ("Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko"; February 4 or 12, 1746 – October 15, 1817) was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer and a military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising.
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Yuri Gagarin Street, Warsaw Yuri Gagarin Street is a major street in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, named after the first man in space.
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Tłomackie Tłomackie is a small street in Warsaw, Poland, in the area of Śródmieście, next to Plac Bankowy.
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Powiśle Powiśle (literally "near-the-Vistula") is a neighbourhood in Warsaw's borough of Śródmieście (city centre). It is located between the Vistula river and its escarpment. Historically it is composed of three neighbourhoods: the Powiśle proper, Mariensztat to the north (just below the Warsaw's Old Town) and Solec to the south.
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Warsaw Barbican The Warsaw Barbican (Polish: "barbakan warszawski" ) is a barbican (semicircular fortified outpost) in Warsaw, Poland, and one of few remaining relics of the complex network of historic fortifications that once encircled Warsaw. Located between the Old and New Towns, it is a major tourist attraction.