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1 day ago · Base map shows modern national borders. / 51.6; 17.2. Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000.
11 hours ago · Czesław Miłosz was born on 30 June 1911, in the village of Šeteniai ( Polish: Szetejnie ), Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kėdainiai district, Kaunas County, Lithuania ). He was the son of Aleksander Miłosz (1883–1959), a Polish civil engineer, and his wife, Weronika (née Kunat; 1887–1945). [13]
11 hours ago · Poland: 1558 (earliest attestation in writing) Tatar mosques in Poland were noted in a 1558 treatise Risale-i Tatar-i Lech. Lithuania (then the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) 1500-1600: Various records indicate Lithuanian Tatars built mosques in the Duchy during the 16th century: Mosque of Sinan Pasha: Prizren Kosovo: 1615
11 hours ago · The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign ( French: Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 ( Russian: Оте́чественная война́ 1812 го́да, romanized : Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda ), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with ...
