(Baonghean.vn) - On the occasion of the Polish President's visit to Vietnam from November 27-30. Let's explore interesting things about this country.
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| The official name of Poland is Rzeczpospolita Polska (Republic of Poland). The country covers an area of 120,562 square miles (312,255 km2)m is slightly smaller than New Mexico. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. |
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| Warsaw became the capital of Poland in 1918, and is the only city in Europe with a nature reserve - Jeziorko Czerniakowskie, located in the heart of the city. Warsaw is also known as the “Phoenix City” because of its remarkable growth after being almost completely destroyed in World War I. Warsaw has a smart state apparatus with 18 districts, each with its own governing body. Warsaw is home to the world's first official library, which opened in 1747. |
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| The flag of Poland has two equal horizontal bands of white and red. The colors come from the symbol of Poland. The national anthem of Poland is Dąbrowski's Mazurka, commonly known as “Jeszcze Polska zginęla nie”, written in 1797 by Jozef Wybicki. |
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| At 380,000 acres (150,000 ha), the Białowieża Primeval Forest in Poland is Europe's last ancient forest, home to 800 European bison, the continent's heaviest land animal. |
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| The first historically recorded ruler of Poland was Mieszko, around 963. In 966, Mieszko adopted Christianity, bringing the easternmost country of Poland within the orbit of Latin culture. Pictured: In 1922, Gabriel Narutowicz became Poland's first democratically elected president. |
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| Poland was the only country in Europe that never officially collaborated with Nazi Germany on any level, and no Polish units fought alongside the Nazi army. Poland never formally surrendered to Germany, and the Polish resistance movement during the German occupation of Poland during World War II was the largest resistance movement in Europe. Pictured: Polish cavalry during the Battle of the Bzura, the largest battle between Germany and Poland during World War II. |
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| The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland is one of the oldest salt mines in the world, located in the southern Polish town of Wieliczka. It was built in the 13th century and was still producing salt as recently as 2007. Attractions in the salt mine include dozens of statues, three chapels, and an entire church carved from rock salt by miners. The Wieliczka Salt Mine is often referred to as the Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland. Pictured: Stairs down into the salt mine. |
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| Jagiellonian University of Krakow was founded by King Casimir III the Great in 1364 and is the oldest university in Poland and the second oldest in Central Europe. |
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| Marie Curie (Manya Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. She moved to Paris in the early 1880s and married Frenchman Pierre Curie in 1895. Together with her husband, she discovered the elements polonium (Po), named after her native Poland, in the summer of 1898, and later radium (Ra). She coined the term “radioactivity” and won the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband and colleague Henri Becquerel in 1903. Marie was the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911 for her research on pure radium. |
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| Poland has won a total of 17 Nobel Prizes (more than Japan, China, India, Australia), including 4 Nobel Peace Prizes and 5 Nobel Literature Prizes. |
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| Frédéric François Chopin (Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen) is Poland's most famous composer. Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland in 1810. The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition is one of the oldest music competitions in the world, founded by Polish Professor Jerzy Zurawiew. The first competition took place in January 1927 at the Warsaw Philharmonic. Since then, the competition has been held every five years. |
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| Polish writer Stanisław Lem is known as one of the world's greatest science fiction writers. His novel Solaris was made into a film in 2002. |
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