Discover the feudal origins of these idiosyncratic regions, and get cultural ... let Culture.pl take you on a tour of Poland’s voivodeships. The name ‘wojewoda’ is said to come from leading warriors, ...

Poland is a development success story. However, the country’s regions face wide-ranging challenges. Therefore, Poland has been selected to participate in the “Catching-Up Regions” project, initiated ...

Rose's 1900 edition of his octopus map, Photo: public domain A later Japanese variant of the map shows stylised skulls for Poland and Finland – regions for whom the touch of the octopus was deadly. In ...

By late 1940, the Nazis (who occupied Poland at the time) turned the region into a ghetto, and its residents either died from disease or starvation, or were sent to the Treblinka death camp.

The other part is a neighborhood alive with boutique restaurants, art galleries and some of the best nightlife Poland has to offer ... the Nowa Huta region – which sits 9 miles east of the ...