Wiktionary PolishpolishPolish British English BrE IPAc en icon p l or American English AmE IPAc en icon p o l may refer to Anything from or related to Poland , a country in Europe Polish language Poles , people from Poland Polish chicken Polish cuisine Polish IPAc en icon p l may refer to Polishing , the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing or chemical action Nail polish Shoe polish See also Polonaise disambiguation Lookfrom Intitle Disambiguation an Polaco da Polsk de Polnisch es Polaco ia Polonese it Polacco ja pt Polaco simple Polish ... more details
Polish Council may refer to Polish Council of State , a collective head of state Polish Language Council , the official language regulating organ of the Polish language disambig ... more details
Polish Lithuanian can refer to Polish Lithuanian union 1385 1569 Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569 1795 Polish Lithuanian adjective as used to describe groups, families, or individuals with histories in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish Lithuanian relations since 1918 Polish minority in Lithuania Lithuanian minority in Poland disambig ... more details
Korean Polish , Korean Pole , or Polish Korean may refer to Poland North Korea relations c.f. a Polish Korean treaty Poland South Korea relations People with dual citizenship of Poland and North or South Korea Eurasian mixed ancestry people of Polish and Korean descent See also Koreans in Poland disambig ... more details
Polish Legions Legiony Polskie may refer to, in chronological order 5th Rifle Division Poland or Siberian Division 58th New York Infantry , a.k.a. the Polish Legion, commanded in the U.S. Civil War by W odzimierz Krzy anowski Mickiewicz s Legion , formed by Adam Mickiewicz in Rome in 1848 Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division Polish 2nd Legions Infantry Division Polish 2nd Legions Infantry Regiment Polish 3rd Legions Infantry Division Polish Legions Napoleonic period , created by Henryk D browski during the Napoleonic Wars Polish Legion in Finland Polish Legion in Turkey , formed around 1770s, as part of the Confederation of Bar Polish Legions in World War I See also Polish Army disambig de Polnische Legion fr L gion polonaise pl Legiony Polskie ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Polish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature . Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards Adam Mickiewicz 1798 1855 , Juliusz S owacki 1809 1849 and Zygmunt Krasi ski 1812 1859 . There have been two Polish poets who were Nobel Prize in literature Nobel Prize laureates in literature Czes aw Mi osz and Wis awa Szymborska . See also Category Polish poems List of famous Polish poems List of Polish language poets Skamander Sung poetry External links http tlumacz literatury.pl index.php?page polishpoetry Selected Masterpieces of Polish Poetry in English ISBN 978 1419679995. Poetry of different cultures and languages DEFAULTSORT Polish Poetry Category Polish poetry Poland stub Poetry stub ... more details
Polish Open may refer to the following Polish Open badminton , a badminton tournament. Orange Warsaw Open , a tennis tournament originally known as the Prokom Polish Open. Warsaw Golf Open , a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour between 1996 and 1999, originally known as the Bank Pekao Polish Open. Polish Open tennis , a tennis tournament held in Sopot, Poland since 2011 disambig ... more details
The Polish Livonia may refer to Duchy of Livonia , a dominion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Inflanty Voivodeship , a district of the Duchy of Livonia 1561 1621 that was retained by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Treaty of Oliva in 1660 disambig ... more details
Polish Republic may refer to First Polish Republic applied in hindsight to the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth , an elective monarchy also called Noble Republic. See also Rzeczpospolita , Constitution of May 3, 1791 Second Polish Republic the name applied to the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II Polish People s Republic the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989, under communist control since 1944 Third Polish Republic the current state of Poland , since 1990 Disambig ar de Polnische Republik fr R publique de Pologne it Rzeczpospolita politica pl Rzeczpospolita Polska ... more details
Image Polish Fest.jpg thumb 300px right A costumed couple pose in front of Syrena the Warsaw mermaid Polish Fest is an annual ethnic festival held at the Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin . One of the largest Poland Polish festivals in the United States, it attracts Polish Americans from all over Wisconsin and nearby Chicago , who come to celebrate Polish culture through music, food and entertainment. ref cite web last Gauper first Beth title Polish for a day publisher St. Paul Pioneer Press, via MidwestWeekends.com date 2007 05 27 url http www.midwestweekends.com plan a trip history heritage heritage travel polish fest milwaukee.html accessdate 2008 01 11 ref The event, along with Summerfest and many ethnic and cultural festivals held throughout the city, give Milwaukee the nickname City of Festivals. History By 1905, Polish Milwaukeeans were the community s second largest ethnic group, second only to the Germans. ref Gurda, John, A local historian s family album, The Milwaukee Journal , 7 Aug. 1994, p. J3. ref The community built a permanent center for social and cultural promotion, and the Polish Center of Wisconsin was opened in Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Franklin , Wisconsin, in August 2000. ref http www.polishcenterofwisconsin.org History.html Polish Center of Wisconsin ref Since 1999, Polish Fest has featured the Chopin Youth Piano Competition for non professional pianists in two age divisions, the Senior Division for ages 15 to 18, and the Junior Division for ages 14 and under. ref http www.polishcenterofwisconsin.org Summer 202009 20Polish 20Connection 20Polish 20Fest 20Preview.pdf The Polish Connection newsletter ref Polish Fest celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2011. References reflist External links http www.polishfest.org Polish Fest http www.polishcenterofwisconsin.org Polish Center of Wisconsin http www.polanki.org The Polish Women s Cultural Club of Milwaukee Category Polish American history Category Festivals in Milwaukee ... more details
Polish studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates Polish language and Polish literature literature in both its historic and present day forms. The common Polish name for the field is polonistyka . In the United States, students taking Polish studies majors focus on the nation, current and historical inhabitants of Polish lands, both current and historical, and instruction ... www.collegeboard.com csearch majors careers profiles majors 05.0129.html Major Polish Studies, The College Board, 2010 , retrieved on 2009 01 03. ref Academic activities in Polish Studies include conferences, workshops, and book publications by scholars who work and teach on Polish history, culture, art, and politics. The Polish Studies Association is part of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and facilitates the exchange of academic information regarding Polish history ... Polish and Western Affairs. ref http www.fas.harvard.edu aaass organizations psa.html Polish Studies Association , retrieved on 2009 01 03. ref The Departments of Polish Studies exist in all major ... &academiclevel &failurl PassportSearchResultsMain&country 118&language 1&fieldofstudy 71 Polish ... Some of the Polish Studies programs at U.S. universities include http www.indiana.edu polishst Polish Studies Center at the Indiana University at Bloomington http www.polishstudies.buffalo.edu Polish ... academics regional poland.html Polish Studies at Columbia University http www.ccsu.edu page.cfm?p 386 Polish and Polish American Studies at Central Connecticut State University http www.ces.ufl.edu polishPolish Studies Program at the University of Florida http slavic.lss.wisc.edu new web ?q node 38 The Polish program at the University of Wisconsin Madison , the oldest Polish program in the United States ref http slavic.lss.wisc.edu new web ?q node 38 Official home page of The Polish program ... home Polish Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle References Inline reflist General ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 Image Aconcagua polish glacier.jpg 300px thumb right The Polish glacier from above the high camp The Polish Glacier ref http www.aconcagua.pl Polish website about Aconcagua Polish Glacier ref Spanish language Spanish Glaciar de los Polacos is one of the glacier glacial field s of Cerro Aconcagua , the highest peak in the Andes . It was named after the Poland Polish expedition of 1934 ref J. Neate 1994 . Mountaineering in the Andes, p187. RGS 1994, ISBN 0 907649 64 5 ref . Led by Konstanty Jodko Narkiewicz , the team paved an alternative route to the peak, named the Polish Route , through the glacier. See also Aconcagua List of glaciers References reflist MendozaAR geo stub Andean glaciers coord missing Argentina Category Glaciers of Argentina Category Geography of Mendoza Province es Glaciar de los Polacos lt Lenk ledynas pl Lodowiec Polak w Argentyna ... more details
The Polish Review is an English language scholarly journal published quarterly in New York City by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America . The Polish Review has been appearing since 1956. Editors in Chief Stanis aw Skrzypek 1956 Ludwik Krzy anowski 1956 1986 Stanis aw Bara czak 1986 1990 Joseph Wieczerzak 1991 2007 Charles S. Kraszewski 2008 present Links http www.thepolishreview.org Official home page http www.piasa.org Home page of PIASA DEFAULTSORT Polish Review Category Publications established in 1956 Category Area studies journals Category English language journals Category Quarterly journals journal stub pl The Polish Review ... more details
The Polish Falcons of America is a Poland Polish fraternal organization fraternal organization founded in 1887 in Chicago , Illinois , United States USA , as the American branch of the Polish Gymnastic Society Sok . It quickly expanded among the Polish community in North America, its local fraternity lodge s called nests . In 1914 the name of the organization was legally changed to Polish Falcons Alliance of America and its aims were enlarged to provide support for regaining of independence for the homeland Poland , which at that time was still partitioned between Austria , Germany and Russia . In 1924, the organization was reincorporated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh under its present name Polish Falcons of America and the aims of the organization were further expanded as a Fraternal Benefit Society to provide insurance for its membership and arrange cultural programs. Today 2006 there are 110 Nests in 15 states. See also Sok Prominent Alumni Leon S. Talaska , humanitarian physician External links http www.polishfalcons.org Polish Falcons of America Website http www.pfanest725.org Website of a Local Nest 725 of the Polish Falcons of America honor stub Category Chicago Polonia Category Polish American history Category Sok pl Polskie Towarzystwo Gimnastyczne Sok ... more details
The term Free Polish can refer to the following Polish government in exile The remnants of the Polish government, based in the United Kingdom , following the Invasion of Poland 1939 Invasion of Poland during World War II Polish Armed Forces in the West The military forces of the Polish government in exile serving with the Western Allies in many of the major battles of World War II. However, the expression Free Polish inspired by the term Free French is technically misleading and unnecessary since, unlike France, Poland never Surrender military surrenderred to the Nazi Germany Third Reich . Poland s armed forces, under an exil but fully legitimate government, continued their fight from bases in the United Kingdom and there was no official collaborator regime in their homeland to differentiate from in political terms. disambig ... more details
Infobox Pittsburgh neighborhood name Polish Hill image Polishill.JPG caption Immaculate Heart of Mary Church locator image pgh locator polish hill.svg population1990 1610 population2000 1488 latd 40.457 longd 79.965 area sqmi 0.255 Polish Hill lang pl Polskie Wzg rze is a List of Pittsburgh neighborhoods neighborhood in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . Primarily a residential area, it is home to one of Pittsburgh s oldest and largest churches, the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pittsburgh Immaculate Heart of Mary . The Polish Hill neighborhood is bordered by Bedford Dwellings , Upper Hill , and Oakland Pittsburgh North Oakland to the south, the Strip District Pittsburgh Strip District to the west, Bloomfield Pittsburgh Bloomfield to the east, and Lawrenceville Pittsburgh Lower Lawrenceville to the north. ref cite web url http www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us cp maps flash.html title Pittsburgh map publisher City of Pittsburgh accessdate April 3, 2009 ref History Large numbers of Poles Polish immigrants settled the neighborhood in the later half of the 1800s. These had come primarily to work in Pittsburgh s burgeoning steel industry. After World War II World War Two , Polish Hill began to Suburbanization lose population , like many urban areas of the United States. Government Polish Hill is represented in the Pittsburgh City Council through the council member for District 7. See also List of Pittsburgh neighborhoods Polish Cathedral style churches References div style font size 90 references div cite book author Toker, Franklin title Pittsburgh An Urban Portrait location Pittsburgh publisher University of Pittsburgh Press origyear 1986 year 1994 isbn 0 8229 5434 6 External links http www.phcapgh.org Polish Hill Civic Association http blogski.phcapgh.org Polish Hill Community Blog http www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us ... A Website Dedicated to a book inspired by the memory of Polish Hill Pittsburgh Category ... Polish American history AlleghenyPA geo stub pittsburgh stub pl Polish Hill ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2008 Polish clans lang pl Rody differ from most clan systems in that while they are mostly composed of families sharing male line origin there can also be some genealogically unrelated families bearing the same coat of arms and clan name because of a formal adoption upon ennoblement or sometimes because of a misattribution petrified in heraldic literature. This is discussed under the topic of Polish Heraldry . Polish nobility, the szlachta , has its origins in Middle Ages chivalric clan s who provided military support to the king, the dukes, or various overlords. Over the centuries ... been incorporated into the Polish clan system, by adoption. Exceptions apart, all Polish families ... variations of Tincture heraldry tincture . The original Polish word herb encompasses the meanings clan as well as coat of arms simultaneously. Membership in a Polish clan does not always connote consanguinity ..., rather than being parallel to the Scottish clan model, the Polish clan system may be considered as being more akin to the Norse clans Scandinavian tt and the Sippe Germanic sippia . Polish ... cry or battle cry derivation of many Polish clan and armorial names has given rise to the now outdated .... In fact war cries consisting of the clan s name alone are nothing particularly Polish and are found in other medieval European nobilities. The German word List of Polish nobility coats of arms ... of the concept of Polish Herb and the Polish institution of the clan coat of arms. Nevertheless .... This is indicated by the organisation of most Modern Era Polish armorials, which are arranged ... of the old Polish nobility carried down from the Middle Ages, but it was probably more ceremonial ... to Polish armorial custom, from the three partitioning powers, the French empire, the Pope, and other ... Clan Szlachta Polish name Polish heraldry Clan of Ostoja DEFAULTSORT Polish Clans Category Kinship and descent Category Polish nobility Category Polish coats of arms Category Polish nobility coats of arms ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Polish Brazilian br small Polaco Brasileiro Polacy Brazylii small image File ... Notable Polish Brazilians br Jaime Lerner Mauricio Waldman Xuxa small poptime c. 1,800,000 Polish ... Polish Society ref small popplace Brazil Mainly Southern Brazil Southern and Southeastern Brazil langs Predominantly Portuguese language Portuguese . Minorities speak Polish language Polish rels Predominantly Roman Catholic Church Catholic or Judaism related Polish people , Brazilian people , Ukrainian Brazilian s, Russian Brazilian s A Polish Brazilian is a Brazilian person of full or partial Polish ancestry, who is aware of such ancestry and remains connected, in some degree, to Polish culture, or a Polish born person permanently residing in Brazil. The number of Polish descendants in Brazil ... generated title ref Also, a Polish Brazilian can be a child of a Brazilian mother and Polish father and vice versa . Polish people Polish immigrants began arriving in Brazil in the late 19th century ... Polish area in Brazil Citation needed date May 2010 . The Polish immigrants brought native ... to the musical elements of the Polish culture , immigrants also brought customs, manners, and styles of clothing Citation needed date May 2010 . Polish culture has also had an impact on aspects ... Polones.jpg thumb left 180px Poland Polish house in Paran state Paran . The first Polish people Polish immigrants arrived in the port of Itaja , Santa Catarina state Santa Catarina , in August 1869 ..., received many Poles Polish immigrants . They were in total 16 families, among them Francisco ... title ref Polish immigration to Brazil was not as large as the immigration of Portuguese people Portuguese ... of Polish immigrants, who settled mainly in the region of Curitiba , in the towns of Mallet, Cruz Machado, S o Matheus do Sul, Irati, and Uni o da Vit ria. Most Polish immigrants to Southern Brazil ... state Santa Catarina and S o Paulo, which is a state as well as a city. After the 1920s, many Polish ... more details
Polish Extraleague may refer to Speedway Ekstraliga Basketball Dominet Bank Ekstraliga disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
Polish Thermopylae can refer to Battle of Zadw rze , 1920 Battle of Wizna , 1939 Disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
In the mathematical discipline of general topology , a Polish space is a separable space separable Completely ... space complete metric space that has a countable Dense set dense subset. Polish spaces are so named because they were first extensively studied by Polish topologists and logicians Sierpi ski , Kuratowski , Tarski and others. However, Polish spaces are primarily studied today because they are the primary ... s. Common examples of Polish spaces are the real line , any Separable space separable Banach space ... metric spaces in the usual metric may be Polish e.g., the open interval 0, 1 is Polish. Between any two uncountable Polish spaces, there is a Borel isomorphism that is, a bijection that preserves the Borel structure. In particular, every uncountable Polish space has the cardinality of the continuum . Lusin space s , Suslin spaces , and Radon space s are generalizations of Polish spaces. Properties Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov Alexandrov s theorem If X is Polish then so is any G delta set G sub sub subset of X . Cantor Bendixson theorem If X is Polish then any closed subset of X ... of Alexandrov s theorem is true as well if a subspace S of a Polish space X is Polish, then it is a G ... metric. Polish metric spaces Although Polish spaces are metrizable, they are not in and of themselves metric space s each Polish space admits many complete metric s giving rise to the same topology, but no one of these is singled out or distinguished. A Polish space with a distinguished complete metric is called a Polish metric space . An alternative approach, equivalent to the one given here, is first to define Polish metric space to mean complete separable metric space , and then to define a Polish space as the topological space obtained from a Polish metric space by forgetful functor forgetting the metric. Generalizations of Polish spaces Lusin spaces A Lusin space is a topological space such that some weaker topology makes it into a Polish space. There are many ways to form ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group flagicon Poland Polish Argentine flagicon Argentina br small Polaco Argentino ... Polish language Polish rels Predominantly Roman Catholicism Roman Catholic , minority are Polish Orthodox Church Polish Orthodox and Judaism Jewish related Poles , Polish Brazilian , Polish American , Polish Canadians A Polish Argentine Spanish language Spanish polaco argentino is an Argentina Argentine citizen of full or partial Poles Polish ancestry. Poland was the third largest net migrants ... an exact number of Polish immigrants to Argentina , as those who immigrated before 1919 carried German ... million Argentines of Polish descent. ref cite web url http www.clarin.com diario 2004 05 03 elmundo ... calcula la mitad. ref The Polish minority in Argentina is both one of the most significant minorities in Argentina and one of the largest groups of Polonia Polish minority . Polish immigration to Argentina ... registered as Germans, Austrians or Russians. Polish immigrants to Argentina were made up of three ... 50 and the Polish Jewish Argentine Jews 25 30 . Between 1921 and 1976, 169,335 immigrants from Poland ..., the first Polish organization in Argentina was founded Towarzystwo Polskie . For many years, the Misiones Province was the major Polish center in Argentina http gu.us.edu.pl index.php?op artykul&rok ... have Polish ancestry. Over a quarter of Misiones Province Misiones population has Polish roots ... , the highest concentration of Polish Argentines in the country. About 140,000 Poles live in Buenos Aires other cities of Argentina Argentine cities with large Polish populations include C rdoba, Argentina ...?id pwko A major organization of Polish minority is the Polish Association in Argentina Zwi zek Polak w w Argentynie . In 1995 the Argentine National Congress Parliament of Argentina made June 8th Polish ... class wikitable style text align center colspan 5 Polish net migration to Argentina from 1921 to 1976 Year period Polish immigrants 1921 1930 119,410 1931 1940 31,500 1941 1950 16,784 1951 1960 325 ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Politics of Poland Porozumienie Polskie Polish Agreement is a small political group in Polish parliament, MPs elected from the Liga Polskich Rodzin electoral committee. Leaders Jan opusza ski politician Jan opusza ski Members of Polish Parliament Sejm MP, constituency Mariusz Grabowski , Tarn w Jan opusza ski politician Jan opusza ski , Radom Halina Nowina Konopka , Olsztyn Category Political parties in Poland poland party stub fr Alliance polonaise pl Porozumienie Polskie ... more details
selfref This article refers to a book. For the mathematical concept also called Polish logic, see Polish notation . Polish Logic is an anthology of papers by several authors, including Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz , published in 1967 and covering the period 1920&ndash 1939. The work focus on the contributions of Polish logician s, more particularly, mathematical logic ians, to modern logic . Library of Congress cataloging data LC Control No. 67106639 Type of Material Book Print, Microform, Electronic, etc. Personal Name McCall, Storrs, comp. Main Title Polish logic, 1920 1939 papers by Ajdukiewicz and others Published Created Oxford, Clarendon P., 1967. Description 2 viii, 406 p. 23 cm. Subjects Logic, Symbolic and mathematical Addresses, essays, lectures. LC Classification BC135 .M18 Category History of logic Category 1967 books Category Logic books mathematics lit stub ... more details
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