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Euphemia of Greater Poland (Polish: Eufemia Odonicówna) (c. 1230 – 15 February after 1281), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast from the Greater Poland branch and by marriage was Duchess of Kalisz, Wieluń and Opole-Racibórz.
Euphemia of Greater Poland (Polish: Eufemia wielkopolska ) (1253 – 5 September 1298) was a Greater Poland princess member of the House of Piast and nun at St. Clara in Wrocław. She was the fourth daughter (twin with Anna) of Przemysł I, Duke of Greater Poland and Poznań, by his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Henry II the Pious, Duke of Wrocław.
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Some English-language sources, in historic contexts, speak of palatinates rather than voivodeships. The term "palatine" traces back to the Latin palatinus. More commonly used now is province or voivodeship. The latter is a loanword-calque hybrid formed on the Polish województwo. Some writers argue against rendering województwo in English as provinc...
Administrative powers
Competences and powers at voivodeship level are shared between the voivode (governor), the sejmik (regional assembly) and the marshal. In most cases these institutions are all based in one city, but in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Lubusz Voivodeshipthe voivode's offices are in a different city from those of the executive and the sejmik. Voivodeship capitals are listed in the table below. The voivode is appointed by the Prime Minister and is the regional representative of the central government. Th...
Economies
According to 2017 Eurostat data, the GDP per capita of Polish voivodeships varies notably and there is a large gap between the richest per capita voivodeship (being the Masovian Voivodeship at 33,500 EUR) and the poorest per capita (being the Lublin Voivodeship at 14,400 EUR).
Congress Poland
From 1816 to 1837 there were 8 voivodeships in Congress Poland. 1. Augustów Voivodeship 2. Kalisz Voivodeship 3. Kraków Voivodeship 4. Lublin Voivodeship 5. Mazowsze Voivodeship 6. Płock Voivodeship 7. Podlaskie Voivodeship 8. Sandomierz Voivodeship
Second Polish Republic
The administrative division of Poland in the interwar period included 16 voivodeships and Warsaw (with voivodeship rights). The voivodeships that remained in Poland after World War II as a result of Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945were very similar to the current voivodeships. Collapsed list of car registration platesfrom 1937, please use table-sort buttons.
Polish People's Republic
After World War II, the new administrative division of the country within the new national borders was based on the prewar one and included 14 (+2) voivodeships, then 17 (+5). The voivodeships in the east that had not been annexed by the Soviet Union had their borders left almost unchanged. The newly acquired territories in the west and north were organized into the new voivodeships of Szczecin, Wrocław and Olsztyn, and partly joined to Gdańsk, Katowice and Poznań voivodeships. Two cities wer...
"Poland", Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, 2010, Macropaedia, volume 25, p. 937."Poland", The Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition, edited by Paul Lagassé, Columbia University Press, 2000, p. 2256."Poland", The Encyclopedia Americana, 1986, volume 22, p. 312."Poland", in Central Intelligence Agency, The CIA World Factbook 2010, New York, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2009, ISBN 9781602397279, p. 546.Map of Polish Regions Archived 2005-04-16 at the Wayback MachineAdministrative division of Poland (from Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside Poland website, in English) Archived 2006-09-25 at the Wayback MachineOfficial map by Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography Archived 2007-03-11 at archive.todayRegions of Poland Archived 2010-07-26 at the Wayback MachineAug 22, 2023 · These hold the highest self-government authority in the country, each one led by a voivode. Now, each voivodship is unique in its area, number of inhabitants, or population density. However, they all have one thing in common: each one has its own separate capital.
The population density of Poland in 2022 was 127.47 people per square kilometer, a 4.04% increase from 2021. The population density of Poland in 2021 was 122.51 people per square kilometer, a 0.31% decline from 2020. Chart and table of Poland population density from 1950 to 2024.
This article presents an analysis of the population-density distributions present in 147 Polish towns and cities of 30,000 inhabitants or more, as of 2002. The determination of these distributions was by reference to concentric
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Population density (people per sq. km of land area) - Poland. Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.
