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 ...

Nothing seems to get in the way of Poland going from strength to strength despite being part of the sluggish European Union. There are multiple reasons why and many facets, including the country ...

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 ...