poland
Noun
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A republic in central Europe;
The invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II (synset 109004957)domain member region: battle of tannenberg, tannenberg - a battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russiansis an instance of: european country, european nation - any one of the countries occupying the European continentmember holonym: pole - a native or inhabitant of Polandhas:- auschwitz - a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II
- preussen, prussia - a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland
- capital of poland, warsaw, warszawa - the capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland
- bromberg, bydgoszcz - an industrial city and river port in northern Poland
- cracow, krakau, krakow - an industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula
- czestochowa - a city of southern Poland whose church contains the statue of the black Madonna which attracts many pilgrims
- danzig, gdansk - a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century
- katowice - an industrial city of southern Poland
- lodz - a large city of central Poland
- lublin - an industrial city of eastern Poland
- breslau, wroclaw - a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder
- zabrze - an industrial city in southern Poland
- carpathian mountains, carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area
- oder, oder river - a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea
- vistula, vistula river - a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea
is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Islessame as: polska, republic of poland
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