Lesser Poland
Historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland.
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Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
Historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
It covers much of such historic regions as Red Ruthenia (centered on Lviv) and Lesser Poland (centered in Kraków).
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland.
Kielce
City in southern Poland with 193,415 inhabitants.
City in southern Poland with 193,415 inhabitants.
The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the banks of the Silnica River, in the northern part of the historical Polish province of Lesser Poland.
Częstochowa
City in southern Poland on the Warta River with 217,530 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland.
City in southern Poland on the Warta River with 217,530 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland.
However, Częstochowa is historically part of the Lesser Poland region, not of Silesia, and before 1795, it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship.
Radom
City in east-central Poland, located approximately 100 km south of the capital, Warsaw.
City in east-central Poland, located approximately 100 km south of the capital, Warsaw.
Despite being part of the Masovian Voivodeship, the city historically belongs to Lesser Poland.
Red Ruthenia
Term used since the Middle Ages for the south-western principalities of the Kievan Rus', namely the Principality of Peremyshl and the Principality of Belz.
Term used since the Middle Ages for the south-western principalities of the Kievan Rus', namely the Principality of Peremyshl and the Principality of Belz.
It has also sometimes included parts of Lesser Poland, Podolia, "Right-bank Ukraine" and Volhynia.
Lesser Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
Administrative division of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1795 and the biggest province of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Administrative division of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1795 and the biggest province of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The name of the province comes from historic land of Lesser Poland.
Voivodeships of Poland
Highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries.
Highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries.
Before the third and last Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which occurred in 1795, each of the main constituent regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth—Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, Lithuania, and Royal Prussia—was sometimes idiosyncratically referred to as a "Province" (prowincja).
Krakowiak
The Krakowiak or Cracovienne is a fast, syncopated Polish folk dance in duple time from the region of Kraków and Lesser Poland.
Tarnobrzeg
Tarnobrzeg is a city in south-eastern Poland (historic Lesser Poland), on the east bank of the river Vistula, with 49,419 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2009.