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Republic of Poland - POLSKA Tranby, June 2013

Damian Karbowniczak | Senior Engineer, Materials Technology


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Where we are ?


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Who we are ?


Major facts:

■ Population – 38 mln +( 20 mln outside around the world) – (34th place in

the world , 6th place in Europe )

■ Total area – 313 km2 - ( 69th place in World , 9th place in Europe ) –

Norway – 385 km2

■ Border with 7 Countries by land ( Germany, Czech republic , Slovakia,

Ukraine, Belarus , Lithuania, Russia ) + Sea border with Sweden

■ Capital city – Warsaw – (Warszawa) -1,7 mln citizens

■ Administative division – 16 voivodeships ( provinces )

■ Political sistem – Republic , parliamentary democracy

■ Religion – 90 % Catholic , Orthodox 2 % , others 8 %

■ Currency – 1 Złoty – 1 PLN

■ Nationalites inside – Poles 96,5 % , Ukrainians 0,6%, Germans 0,5% ,

Others ( Vietnamese , Belarusians, Armenians(Warsaw) Italian and

Spanish(Wroclaw,Krakow)

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History :

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■ 966 – Christianity by Mieszko I

■ 1025 – Boleslaw Chrobry – 1st

King

■ 1138 – Fragmentation of

Poland

■ 1226 – Teutonic

Knights(Germans) in Poland

■ 1364 – first university in

Poland – Cracow Academy by

Casimir III the Great

■ 1385 – Polish – Lithuania

union .

■ 1410 – Batlle of Grunwald


History :

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■ 16 th centaury – Poland’s

golden age ( ex. Copernicus)

■ 17th centaury – Crisis – war

with Sweden, Russia, Turkey ,

Cossacks

■ 1610 – Polish Army entered

Moscow

■ 1683 – Polish King Jan III

Sobieski stop Turkish Army in

Vienna(Austria)

■ 1791 – 1st modern constitution

in Europe


History :

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■ Partition of Poland – (1795-

1918 )

■ Suppression by Russia and

Prusia(Germany)

■ 1918 – after 123 year we get

independence

■ 1920 – the battle of Warsaw

with Russia ( Miracle at the

Vistula ) – General Jozef

Pilsudski


History

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■ II World War

■ 1 st September of 1939 – Germany

invade Poland – Blitzkrieg – Fast war

■ 17th of Sep 1939 of Soviet Union

Invade Poland

■ Germans Nazi killed 5 mln Polish

people

■ Soviet Russia killed 1 mln Polish

people

■ Auschwitz camp – Nazi exterminated

1,5 mln people

■ 1944 – Warsaw Uprising

■ 1945 – 1989 – Comunism System

„Closed Country”

■ 1980 – formation of „Solidarity”

■ 1989 – III rd republic

■ 2004 – we are full member of EU

union


Administration and regions

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■ 16 Voivodeships with major

cities

■ Regions – cultural and

historical names


Motorhighways and main road

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■ Grey – actual

motorhighways -2000km

■ Main roads – national roads

– 18 000km (5%)


Airports

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■ Oslo Gardemoen –

2012 -19 mln


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Landscape and rivers

■ Wisła (Vistula) -1047 km

■ Odra – 742 km ( total 854 km)

■ Warta – 808 km

■ Bug – 587 km ( total 772km)

■ San – 443 km

■ Narew – 484

■ Notec – 388 km

■ Glomma -598 km


National parks and animals

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Major Cities

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■ Warszawa – Warsaw – 1,7 mln people – greater metropolitan 2,6 mln

■ Capital city since 1596

■ 9th most populous in Europe


Warszawa

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Krakow – Cracow – 0,76 mln people – 1,4mln metro. area

■ One of oldest city in Poland

■ Academic city

■ Science and artist city

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Krakow

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Wroclaw –Breslau–0,6 mln people – metro. area -1mln

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Wroclaw

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Poznan – 0,5 mln – metropolitan area 1,5 mln

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Tri city ( Gdansk, Gdynia,Sopot) – 1,5 mln people

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Gdynia

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20 Largest cities

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Attractive regions – Baltic sea

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Mazury – Mazuria – region with more than 4000 lakes

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Mountains – Tatry – over 2000 m

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People of Tatry

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Mountains - Sudety

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Mountains – Bieszczady

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Antiques cities

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Zamosc Torun

Sandomierz


Phenomenon : Castles - 419 ! + Palace – 2021 !

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Polish food

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Polish food

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Famous Polish

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Ignacy Łukasiewicz – petroleum industry pioneer

■ 1856 – build the first oil refinery in the world !

■ 1853 – inventor of modern kerosene lamp (paraffin )

■ 1854 – constructor of first oil well in Poland

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Galicja well


Tadeusz Sendzimir – Edison in Metallurgy !

■ 1894 -1989

■ 120 patents in mining and metallurgy

■ Bessemer Gold Medal (1956) , Brinnell Gold Medal from Swedish

Royal Academy of Sciences in Stokholm (1974)

■ Galvanized steel strip with small amount of aluminium in zinc bath.

Coating with no iron-zinc alloy. High durability and resistance.

■ 90 % of world’s stainless steel in 80’s was produced by Sendzimir

process

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"I have been carrying family and the only my capital - a new method of zinc-plating to another coast of the Pacific"


Sports People

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■ Justyna Kowalczyk

■ 4th times won Tour the Ski

■ 3rd times won

FIS world Cup( year by year)

■ Adam Małysz

■ 4th times won FIS world Cup

■ 3rd times won

FIS world Cup( year by year)

■ Lukasz Podolski

■ 110 games for Germany

■ 46 goals

■ Arsenal Londyn

■ Polish heart – he woudl like

finish career in Poland .


Sports events

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TAKK!

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Thanks!

DZIĘKUJĘ !! ( DZiĘKI)


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