Little Poland, Brooklyn — Little Poland is an informal name for part of a neighborhood in Greenpoint, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The name Little Poland came to be applied to it following an influx of Polish immigrants after 1900.Earlier, several other… … Wikipedia
Little Poland Uplands — ▪ geographical region, Poland Polish Wyżyna Małopolska highland area, southern Poland, having an area of 10,000 square miles (25,000 sq km). Located south of the Polish Lowlands, it embraces the territory from the Kraków Częstochowa… … Universalium
Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland State Party = POL Type = Cultural Criteria = iii, iv ID = 1053 Region = Europe and North America Year = 2003 Session = 27th Link =… … Wikipedia
Poland — • Country in eastern Europe Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Poland Poland † Cathol … Catholic encyclopedia
Poland — /poh leuhnd/, n. a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,700,291; ab. 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska. * * * Poland Introduction Poland Background: Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around … Universalium
Little Russia — A fragment of the “new and accurate map of Europe collected from the best authorities...” by Emanuel Bowen published in 1747 in his A complete system of geography. Left bank Ukraine is shown as “Little Russia”. Great, White, and Red Russias are… … Wikipedia
Poland, partitions of — (1772, 1793, 1795) Territorial divisions of Poland by Russia, Prussia, and Austria that progressively reduced its territory until it ceased to exist as a state. In the First Partition (1772), a Poland weakened by civil war and Russian… … Universalium
POLAND — POLAND, republic in E. Central Europe; the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania united formally (Poland Lithuania) in 1569. This article is arranged according to the following outline: the early settlements jewish legal status… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Little Treaty of Versailles — or the Polish Minority Treaty was one of the bilateral Minority Treaties signed between minor powers and the League of Nations in the aftermath of the First World War. The Polish treaty was signed on 28 June 1919, the very same day as the main… … Wikipedia
Little League Baseball — is the name of a non profit organization in the United States which organizes local children s leagues of baseball and softball throughout the USA and the rest of the world.The Little League was founded by Carl Stotz in 1939 as a three team… … Wikipedia
