Lesser Poland and Related Topics

Galicia (Eastern Europe)

Historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.

Map of the Principality of Halych in the 13th century, which formed the nucleus of what later became Galicia

Annexation of the Kingdom of Ruthenia by the Kingdom of Poland as part of the Galicia–Volhynia Wars

Table of history of Cherven Cities, Halychian Rus' and Red Ruthenia

The legislative Sejm of the Land was located in the capital city, Lemberg, modern day Lviv.

Reconstruction of the historic border (1772–1918) between Austrian Galicia and Austrian Silesia in Bielsko-Biała.

It covers much of such historic regions as Red Ruthenia (centered on Lviv) and Lesser Poland (centered in Kraków).

Lublin

Krakowska Gate in the Old Town is among the city's most recognisable landmarks.

Union of Lublin, painting by Jan Matejko at the National Museum of Lublin

19th-century drawing of the Lublin Old Town by Adam Lerue

German and Soviet troops in Lublin during the invasion of Poland in September 1939

Monument and cemetery in Rury where the Germans massacred around 500 Poles in 1940

The site of the former Majdanek concentration camp, located on the outskirts of Lublin

Marie Curie Monument near the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS

Polish MPs in the PZL Świdnik helicopter factory

Lublin Główny railway station, the city's main train station

Lublin has one of three trolleybus systems in Poland

The Centre for the Meeting of Cultures and Teatralny Square, view from the Lublin Conference Center

Historic tenement houses at the Market Square

Krakowskie Przedmieście, one of the main streets of the historic city center

440th anniversary of the Union of Lublin

Birthplace of composer Henryk Wieniawski

The first part of a bypass road around 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.

A typical Polish manor house called dworek, dating back to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The pictured house is one of the city's most precious buildings

Camp of the Russian Imperial Army near Kielce during the January Uprising, 1863

Józef Piłsudski with the Polish Legions in Kielce, in front of the Governor's Palace, 1914

Building of the Kielce Jewish Committee and refugee centre on Planty Street

Kielce Business Center - the headquarters of Exbud-Skanska, a symbol of modern Kielce

St. Adalbert Church dating back to 10th century

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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.

Fortifications of the Jasna Góra Monastery

Kazimierz Pulaski and the Bar Confederation 1772 defence of Częstochowa. Painting by Chełmoński.

Interior of basilica, Jasna Góra Monastery

Polish insurgents in Częstochowa during the January Uprising

Match factory modernized in the 1920s, now a museum

German troops in Częstochowa during the invasion of Poland

Monument dedicated to the fallen defenders of Poland in the Polish–Soviet War and World War II

Celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the baptism of Poland with the participation of Primate of Poland Stefan Wyszyński in 1966

Miejski Stadion Piłkarski "Raków", home venue of Raków Częstochowa

National Road {{Jct|country=POL|DK|1}} in Częstochowa

Częstochowa, Częstochowa Osobowa (Główna) Railway S tation

Konstal 105Na trams on Niepodległości (Independence) Avenue

Town Hall and Częstochowa Regional Museum

Regional Specialist Hospital - Parkitka, Nowobialska Street

City Polyclinical Hospital - Mirowska Street

Regional Specialist Hospital - PCK Street

City Polyclinical Hospital - Mickiewicz Street

However, Częstochowa is historically part of the Lesser Poland region, not of Silesia, and before 1795, it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship.

Saint Wenceslaus church, the city's oldest church

Radom

City in east-central Poland, located approximately 100 km south of the capital, Warsaw.

Saint John the Baptist church, founded by King Casimir III the Great in the 14th century

Plaque at the Radom Castle commemorating the adoption of the Nihil novi act in Radom in 1505

Former seat of the Gestapo and NKVD during the occupation

Monument and cemetery in Firlej where the Germans murdered around 15,000 Poles and Jews

Building of the former Land Credit Society

Jacek Malczewski Museum and Polish Legions monument

Polish Basketball League match between Rosa Radom and Trefl Sopot in Radom in 2014

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.

Lemkos in folk costumes from Mokre, near Sanok

The ducal seal of Vladislaus II of Opole (Władysław Opolczyk): "Ladislaus Dei Gracia Dux Opoliensis Wieloniensis et Terre Russie Domin et Heres" (c. 1387)

The 1507 Lesser Poland and Red Ruthenia Map (Polonia Minor; Russia) by Martin Waldseemüller

Village of Markowa, about 150-200 km southeast of Kraków. Its 18th- and 19th-century Upper Lusatian houses evoked the mountains of Saxony.

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.

The Crown Tribunal in Lublin, the highest appeal court in the province of Lesser Poland

The name of the province comes from historic land of Lesser Poland.

Map of Polish voivodeships since 1999 (abbreviations)

Voivodeships of Poland

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).

Folk dancers in traditional costumes from Kraków (regarded as Polish national costumes).

Krakowiak

The Krakowiak or Cracovienne is a fast, syncopated Polish folk dance in duple time from the region of Kraków and Lesser Poland.

Tarnobrzeg

Boroughs, districts and osiedla of 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.