poland

Noun
  1. 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 Russians
    is an instance of: european country, european nation - any one of the countries occupying the European continent
    member holonym: pole - a native or inhabitant of Poland
    has:
    • 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 Isles
    same as: polska, republic of poland

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