Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country located in Central Europe, covering an area of 312,696 km of land. It has a population of nearly 38.5 million people. The capital of Poland is Warsaw, and other major cities include Krakow, Lodz, and Gdansk.
90% of people in Poland identify as Christian, with 6% of people saying they do not identify with any religion, 3% choosing not to answer and only 1% of people belonging to various other religions.
Poland was once home to over 3 million Jews, 90% of whom were killed in the Holocaust, along with another 1.8-2.8 million ethnic Poles. After the war, the Soviet Union instituted a new communist government in Poland which ruled from 1947-1989.
Today, Poland is a developed market and is the sixth-largest economy in the European Union, of which it is a member.
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In a victory for European conservatives inspired by US President Donald Trump, Nawrocki secured 50.89% of the vote, election commission data showed.
The comeback of the conservative-sovereigntist Right in Poland - analysis
The 43-year-old historian, director of the Polish National Remembrance Institute (IPN), won the presidential race, despite polls foreseeing his defeat.
Poland votes for its next president, with Polish-Jewish history on the ballot
Voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian rewriting Holocaust history.
Medieval settlement discovered during expressway construction in Poland
Archaeologists find traces of developed settlement with residential buildings and artifacts from the 14th-15th centuries.
Hidden-tunnel letter rekindles hunt for Poland’s fabled Nazi ‘Gold Train’
The “gold train” allegedly left Breslau in 1945 with treasures—possibly Amber Room panels—then vanished into the Riese tunnels beneath the Owl Mountains as Soviet forces advanced.
Woman beheaded during axe attack at Warsaw University, Polish media reports
Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that a woman's severed head and an axe had been found at the university.
No easy road: Avdija, Israel gear up for tricky EuroBasket challenge in Poland
On paper, Israel should be able to get through the group. However, each team that it will face poses its own challenges.
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The fatal liability of lacking reliable prior networks revealed itself in the rapid collapse of the first Polish state.
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An English translation by Rose Waldman of Chaim Grade’s final, unfinished work has been published.
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