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Podlaskie Voivodship
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Podlaskie [1], also Podlaskie Voivodship, Podlachia or Podlachian Voivodship, is a voivodship, also written voivodeship, in North-East Poland.
[edit] Regions
- Pojezierze Suwalskie
- Kotlina Biebrzańska
- Wysoczyzna Kolneńska
- Nizina Podlaska
- Wysoczyzna Bielska
- Narew
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[edit] Metropole
- Białystok - the biggest city and capital of Podlaskie with the Branicki Palace, the Polish Versailles. Gateway to Masuria Lake District (north) and the Białowieża Forest (south-east) nature reserve which is home to Europe's only free-roaming bison population.
[edit] Little Pearls
- Augustów
- Białowieża
- Ciechanowiec
- Suchowola - geographical centre of Europe
- Supraśl - little town in Podlaskie with the most beautiful byzantine monastery in Poland
- Tykocin - Renaissance and early Baroque town in Podlaskie.
[edit] Other destinations
[edit] UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Białowieża Forest a primeval forest near Bialystok with very old trees and the last bison at large in Europe.
[edit] National Parks
- Białowieża National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site as it is the last remnants of the Europe wide primeval forest from the last ice age.
- Biebrza National Park, protected swampland haven for birdlife.
- Narew National Park – national park protecting the widelife of the river Narew.
- Wigry National Park – national park protecting the widelife of the Lake Wigry.
[edit] Spas
- Augustów – spa in the Suwałki Lakeland.
- Supraśl-Zdrój – spa near Białystok.
[edit] Understand
In the early Middle Ages Podlaskie was disputed between the Kingdom of Poland, Ruthuania and Baltic tribes. After the Union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Duchy of Lithuania in 1385, Podlaskie became the central part of the Jagiellonian state with major trade routes from the Vistula towns to Vilnius crossing it. Beautiful Baroque palaces, churches and synagogues were built during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Besides Roman and Greek Catholics, Orthodox and Jews, also the Moslem Tatars settled here since the 17th century. After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795 most of its territory was annexed by Prussia and Russia, but partly became independent as part of the Duchy of Warsaw between 1807-1815. After the Congress of Vienna it became part of the Kingdom of Poland, ruled by the Russian Tsar, or directly part of the Russian empire. After World War I Podlaskie became part of the Second Polish Republic, but was occupied by Nazi-Germany and the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1944. After World War II it again became part of Poland. Nowerdays it is situated quite in the east of the country, although it used to be in the center between the two capitals Kraków and Vilnuis during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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[edit] By place
There is no international airport in Podlaskie. The nearest Airport is Warsaw's Frederic Chopin Airport (WAW).
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Podlaskie boarders two other Polish voivodships
- and Warmińsko-Mazurskie,
as well as Russia, Lithuania and Belarus.
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