Polska / Poland

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The name "Poland" originates from the name of the tribe "Polanie" which means "people living in open fields". 

 
                                                                                                                   

Poles drink some 92 litres of beer a year        

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Polish dumplings or „pierogi” are one of national dishes and one of the best recognizable Polish food outside Poland      

                                                                                                                            

Kraków was the headquarters and the place of coronation of Polish kings and the nation’s capital from 1038 until the move to Warsaw in 1596.  

                                                                                                                                                                                              

It was the centre of the European Jewish world with 3.3 million Jews living in Poland.   

The Fiat was the first mass produced car in Poland and 10,000 were sold before the eve of WWII.             
     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Polish has the second largest number of speakers among the Slavic languages after Russian.      
                                                                                                                                                  

It is among the world’s biggest producers of hard coal. Poland’s reserves of hard coal are estimated at 45.4 billion tons  
     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Famous musical composer Frederic Chopin was Polish and he was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village in east-central Poland.    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Pope John Paul II also known as Karol Wojtyla (1920-2005) was Polish. He was the only Polish Pope and he served the second longest.  
                        

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