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Area : 120727  sq.mi - Population 38518241 hab.
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History Poland

 Historical dates

960-1386: Piast dynasty, the Poles converted to Christianism.
1386-1572: second Jagiellonian dynasty, a time when Poland reached a peak in prosperity, power and cultural influence. Poland and Lithuania united.
1764: Russian troops come to Poland, as the achievement of a long period of continuous wars leading Poland to subjection.
1772: first partition of Poland and loss of roughly one quarter of the territory to Russia, Austria and Prussia.
1793-1797: second and third partitions between the Russian empire, Austria and Prussia, which end with the Polish state disappearing off the map of Europe. The foreign yoke lasted 125 years.
1918: Poland was proclaimed an Independent Republic.
1920: after the war against the Soviets, Poland gained back its historical territories of Belarus and the Ukraine.
1939: Germany attacks Poland.
1941: the German armies occupy the country and implement the extermination policy of Polish citizens, in particular the Jews, most of whom perished in concentration camps.
1947: emerging of the communist State and total submission to the Soviet Union.
1968: students' demonstrations for freedom of expression, ended by government repression and by taking part in invading Czechoslovakia.
1978: the archbishop of Krakow, cardinal Karol Wojtyla, was elected pope under the name of John-Paul II.
1980: the country was brought to a standstill by the strikes of Gdansk and other ports of the Baltic coast. Creation of the movement 'Solidarity'.
1989: triumph of 'Solidarity' and Lech Walesa.
1999: Poland was admitted into NATO.
2000: Aleksander Kwasniewski was reelected President.
2001: Leszek Miller was elected Prime Minister.
In June 2003, the Poles expressed, by referendum, their will to join the European Union.
1st May 2004: Poland entered the EU.