• requires a given name to indicate the person's gender.[citation needed] Almost all Polish female names end in the vowel -a, and most male names end in a consonant...
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    letters of the alphabet, their Polish names (see also Names of letters below), the Polish spelling alphabet name, the Polish phonemes which they usually...
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  • birthday. Gianna Thome Name day Polish name Polish phonology Kalendarz imienin (in Polish) Imieniny Polska (in Polish) Polish name days Name days in Poland http://www...
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    Polish (endonym: język polski, [ˈjɛ̃zɘk ˈpɔlskʲi] , polszczyzna [pɔlˈʂt͡ʂɘzna] or simply polski, [ˈpɔlskʲi] ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic...
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  • Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries. The main types of Slavic names: Two-base names, often ending in...
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  • been named after Polish people or places. Many of these are craters on the terrestrial planets but asteroids and exoplanets have also received Polish names...
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    Polish State. Any other republic is referred to as republika in modern Polish. It is often assumed that all of the above names derive from the name of...
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    each. Among the top are Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Łódź and Wrocław. The Polish names of listed universities are given in brackets, followed by a standard...
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    Among the words of Polish origin there are several words that derive from Polish geographic names and ethnonyms, including the name Polska, "Poland", itself...
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    The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7...
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    the German population today has names of Slavic origin. Many Austrians also have surnames of Slavic origin. Polish names in Germany abound as a result of...
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    earliest surviving of the use of the clan name and cry defining the honorable status of Polish knights. The names of knightly genealogiae only came to be...
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    The Polish Corridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: korytarz polski), also known as the Pomeranian Corridor, Danzig Corridor or Gdańsk Corridor,...
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    from Lechia, the ancient name for Poland, or from the tribal Lendians. Their names are equally derived from the Old Polish term lęda, meaning plain or...
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    The Polish State Railways (Polish: Polskie Koleje Państwowe, abbr.: PKP S.A.) is a Polish state-owned holding company (legally a sole-shareholder company...
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    tested, their original metrics of birth destroyed, and their Polish names changed to German names, as part of Germanisation. Those children who were classified...
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  • Constitution Day. The May holidays (1, 2 and 3 May) are called "majówka" in Polish (roughly translated as May-day picnic). The following are national and state...
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  • distorted versions of Russian or Polish names in surzhyk sometimes. The suffix -en is added to most of the months' names. Lithuanian calendar Slavic Native...
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    by several names. "Polish–Soviet War" is the most common but other names include "Russo–Polish War" (or "Polish–Russian War") and "Polish–Bolshevik War"...
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  • an Ensign. Names of Polish ranks are often of foreign origin, like the ones introduced by the 17th-century mercenaries serving for the Polish Crown. These...
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    A voivodeship (/ˈvɔɪvoʊdʃɪp/ VOY-vohd-ship; Polish: województwo [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ] ; plural: województwa [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfa]) is the highest-level administrative...
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  • Polish Republic (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska) is the official name of Poland. It may also refer to: The First Polish Republic, applied retrospectively...
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  • transcription delimiters. The Old Polish language (Polish: język staropolski, staropolszczyzna) was a period in the history of the Polish language between the 10th...
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    Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade (Polish Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Karpackich, SBSK) was a Polish military unit formed in 1940 in French Syria...
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    names include the 'Republic of Nobles' (Polish: Rzeczpospolita szlachecka) and the 'First Commonwealth' (Polish: I Rzeczpospolita) or 'First Polish Republic'...
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  • The Polish złoty (alternative spelling: zloty; Polish: polski złoty, Polish: [ˈzwɔtɨ] ; abbreviation: zł; code: PLN) is the official currency and legal...
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  • Belarusian name Bosnian name Bulgarian names Croatian name Czech names Polish names Russian names Serbian names Slovak name Ukrainian name Slavic names "What...
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    Commission for the Determination of Place Names (Polish: Komisja Ustalania Nazw Miejscowości) was a commission of the Polish Department of Public Administration...
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  • The following is a list of Polish brigade and division-sized military units during World War I and the subsequent Russian Civil War. See also list of military...
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    The Polish hussars (/həˈzɑːrs/; Polish: husaria [xuˈsarja]), alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland...
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