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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post-war_period"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Post-war period</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Post-war_period-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Sights</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cuisine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cuisine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Cuisine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cuisine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" 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class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Greater Poland</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D1%87%D0%B0" title="Вялікая Польшча – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Вялікая Польшча" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D1%87%D0%B0" title="Вялікая Польшча – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Вялікая Польшча" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%88%D0%B0" title="Великополша – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Великополша" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Pol%C3%B2nia" title="Gran Polònia – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Gran Polònia" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velkopolsko_(historick%C3%A9_%C3%BAzem%C3%AD)" title="Velkopolsko (historické území) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Velkopolsko (historické území)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storpolen" title="Storpolen – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Storpolen" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fpolen" title="Großpolen – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Großpolen" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wjelikop%C3%B3lska" title="Wjelikopólska – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Wjelikopólska" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suur-Poola" title="Suur-Poola – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Suur-Poola" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B7_%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Μεγάλη Πολωνία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μεγάλη Πολωνία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Polonia_(regi%C3%B3n_hist%C3%B3rica)" title="Gran Polonia (región histórica) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gran Polonia (región histórica)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonia_Handia" title="Polonia Handia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Polonia Handia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%87%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF" title="لهستان بزرگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="لهستان بزرگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande-Pologne" title="Grande-Pologne – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Grande-Pologne" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%84%EC%97%98%EC%BD%94%ED%8F%B4%EC%8A%A4%EC%B9%B4" title="비엘코폴스카 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="비엘코폴스카" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="वृहद पोलैण्ड – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="वृहद पोलैण्ड" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velikopoljska" title="Velikopoljska – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Velikopoljska" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polandia_Besar" title="Polandia Besar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Polandia Besar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Polonia" title="Grande Polonia – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Grande Polonia" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lielpolija" title="Lielpolija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Lielpolija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Did%C5%BEioji_Lenkija" title="Didžioji Lenkija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Didžioji Lenkija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagy-Lengyelorsz%C3%A1g" title="Nagy-Lengyelország – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Nagy-Lengyelország" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%85_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88" title="Их Польш – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Их Польш" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groot-Polen_(historische_regio)" title="Groot-Polen (historische regio) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Groot-Polen (historische regio)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stor-Polen" title="Stor-Polen – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Stor-Polen" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stor-Polen" title="Stor-Polen – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Stor-Polen" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wielkopolska" title="Wielkopolska – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Wielkopolska" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Pol%C3%B4nia" title="Grande Polônia – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Grande Polônia" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonia_Mare_(istorie)" title="Polonia Mare (istorie) – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Polonia Mare (istorie)" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B0" title="Великая Польша – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Великая Польша" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velikopoljska" title="Velikopoljska – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Velikopoljska" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wjelgopolsko" title="Wjelgopolsko – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Wjelgopolsko" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%99%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Великопољска – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Великопољска" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a 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.infobox-below{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Greater Poland</div> <div class="nickname ib-settlement-native" lang="pl"><i>Wielkopolska</i></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Polish_historical_regions" 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class="mw-file-description" title="Poznań Old Town"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Poznan_10-2013_img15_Old_Market.jpg/126px-Poznan_10-2013_img15_Old_Market.jpg" decoding="async" width="126" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Poznan_10-2013_img15_Old_Market.jpg/189px-Poznan_10-2013_img15_Old_Market.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Poznan_10-2013_img15_Old_Market.jpg/252px-Poznan_10-2013_img15_Old_Market.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3398" data-file-height="2549" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:130px;max-width:130px"><div style="border:1;;height:94px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_Gniezno_(21).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gniezno Cathedral, a Historic Monument of Poland"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Cathedral_of_Gniezno_%2821%29.jpg/128px-Cathedral_of_Gniezno_%2821%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="128" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Cathedral_of_Gniezno_%2821%29.jpg/192px-Cathedral_of_Gniezno_%2821%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Cathedral_of_Gniezno_%2821%29.jpg/256px-Cathedral_of_Gniezno_%2821%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5053" data-file-height="3730" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div style="border:1;;height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kalisz_Town_Hall_2019_P02.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kalisz Old Town"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Kalisz_Town_Hall_2019_P02.jpg/127px-Kalisz_Town_Hall_2019_P02.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="95" class="mw-file-element" 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data-file-height="2684" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:159px;max-width:159px"><div style="border:1;;height:89px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Castillo_de_K%C3%B3rnik,_K%C3%B3rnik,_Polonia,_2016-12-21,_DD_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kórnik Castle, a Historic Monument of Poland"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Castillo_de_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_03.jpg/157px-Castillo_de_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="157" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Castillo_de_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_03.jpg/236px-Castillo_de_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_K%C3%B3rnik%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_03.jpg 1.5x, 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>From top, left to right: <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Old_Town" title="Poznań Old Town">Poznań Old Town</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gniezno_Cathedral" title="Gniezno Cathedral">Gniezno Cathedral</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a> Old Town</li><li>Raczyński Palace in <a href="/wiki/Rogalin" title="Rogalin">Rogalin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Basilica_on_the_Holy_Mountain,_G%C5%82og%C3%B3wko" title="Basilica on the Holy Mountain, Głogówko">Basilica on the Holy Mountain in Głogówko</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B3rnik_Castle" title="Kórnik Castle">Kórnik Castle</a></li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style> <div class="ib-settlement-cols"> <div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of Greater Poland"><img alt="Coat of arms of Greater Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/82px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="82" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/123px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/164px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Coat of arms</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pozna%C5%84skie_kaliskie.png" class="mw-file-description" title="The proper Greater Poland"><img alt="The proper Greater Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pozna%C5%84skie_kaliskie.png/240px-Pozna%C5%84skie_kaliskie.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pozna%C5%84skie_kaliskie.png/360px-Pozna%C5%84skie_kaliskie.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pozna%C5%84skie_kaliskie.png/480px-Pozna%C5%84skie_kaliskie.png 2x" data-file-width="1932" data-file-height="1755" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">The proper Greater Poland</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seat</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gniezno" title="Gniezno">Gniezno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B1" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+1">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B2" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+2">UTC+2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time">CEST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Primary airport</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84%E2%80%93%C5%81awica_Airport" title="Poznań–Ławica Airport">Poznań–Ławica Airport</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Highways_in_Poland" title="Highways in Poland">Highways</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/A2_autostrada_(Poland)" title="A2 autostrada (Poland)"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/A2-PL.svg/32px-A2-PL.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/A2-PL.svg/48px-A2-PL.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/A2-PL.svg/64px-A2-PL.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1019" data-file-height="478" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Expressway_S3_(Poland)" title="Expressway S3 (Poland)"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/S3-PL.svg/32px-S3-PL.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/S3-PL.svg/48px-S3-PL.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/S3-PL.svg/64px-S3-PL.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="975" data-file-height="478" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Expressway_S5_(Poland)" title="Expressway S5 (Poland)"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/S5-PL.svg/32px-S5-PL.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/S5-PL.svg/48px-S5-PL.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/S5-PL.svg/64px-S5-PL.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="969" data-file-height="478" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Expressway_S10_(Poland)" title="Expressway S10 (Poland)"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/S10-PL.svg/32px-S10-PL.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/S10-PL.svg/48px-S10-PL.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/S10-PL.svg/64px-S10-PL.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1130" data-file-height="478" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Expressway_S11_(Poland)" title="Expressway S11 (Poland)"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/S11-PL.svg/32px-S11-PL.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/S11-PL.svg/48px-S11-PL.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/S11-PL.svg/64px-S11-PL.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1030" data-file-height="478" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Greater Poland</b>, often known by its Polish name <b>Wielkopolska</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="pl-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Polish" title="Help:IPA/Polish">[vjɛlkɔˈpɔlska]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span 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class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Pl-Wielkopolska.ogg" title="File:Pl-Wielkopolska.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Polonia Maior</i>), is a Polish <a href="/wiki/Polish_historical_regions" title="Polish historical regions"> historical region</a> of west-central <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>. Its chief and largest city is <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a> followed by <a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a>, the oldest city in Poland. </p><p>The boundaries of Greater Poland have varied somewhat throughout history. Since the <a href="/wiki/Late_Middle_Ages" title="Late Middle Ages">Late Middle Ages</a>, Wielkopolska proper has been split into the <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship_(14th_century_to_1793)" class="mw-redirect" title="Poznań Voivodeship (14th century to 1793)">Poznań</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1314%E2%80%931793)" title="Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)">Kalisz</a> <a href="/wiki/Administrative_division_of_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">voivodeships</a>. In the wider sense, it also encompassed <a href="/wiki/Sieradz_Voivodeship_(1339%E2%80%931793)" title="Sieradz Voivodeship (1339–1793)">Sieradz</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%81%C4%99czyca_Voivodeship" title="Łęczyca Voivodeship">Łęczyca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brze%C5%9B%C4%87_Kujawski_Voivodeship" title="Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship">Brześć Kujawski</a> and <a href="/wiki/Inowroc%C5%82aw_Voivodeship" title="Inowrocław Voivodeship">Inowrocław</a> voivodeships, which were situated further east, and the <a href="/wiki/Santok" title="Santok">Santok Land</a>, located to the northwest.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The region in the proper sense roughly coincides with the present-day <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Voivodeship" title="Greater Poland Voivodeship">Greater Poland Voivodeship</a> (<a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>: <i lang="pl">województwo wielkopolskie</i>). </p><p>Like all the historical regions of Poland, i.e <a href="/wiki/Pomerania" title="Pomerania">Pomerania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warmia" title="Warmia">Warmia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Silesia" title="Silesia">Silesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mazovia" title="Mazovia">Mazovia</a> or <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a> and others, the Greater Poland region possesses its own folk costumes, architecture, cuisine, that make the region touristically and culturally interesting. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Due to the fact that Greater Poland was the settlement area of the <a href="/wiki/Polans_(western)" title="Polans (western)">Polans</a> and the core of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Poland_(966%E2%80%931385)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Poland (966–1385)">early Polish state</a>, the region was at times simply called "Poland" (Latin <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Polonia</i></span>). The more specific name is first recorded in the Latin form <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Polonia Maior</i></span> in 1257 and in Polish <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">w Wielkej Polszcze</i></span> in 1449. Its original meaning was <i>the Older Poland</i> to contrast with <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a> (Polish <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">Małopolska</i></span>, Latin <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Polonia Minor</i></span>), a region in south-eastern Poland with its capital at <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a> that later became the main centre of the state. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Berzy%C5%84skie_Lake_Near_Wolsztyn_(158416825).jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Berzy%C5%84skie_Lake_Near_Wolsztyn_%28158416825%29.jpeg/220px-Berzy%C5%84skie_Lake_Near_Wolsztyn_%28158416825%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Berzy%C5%84skie_Lake_Near_Wolsztyn_%28158416825%29.jpeg/330px-Berzy%C5%84skie_Lake_Near_Wolsztyn_%28158416825%29.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Berzy%C5%84skie_Lake_Near_Wolsztyn_%28158416825%29.jpeg/440px-Berzy%C5%84skie_Lake_Near_Wolsztyn_%28158416825%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1358" /></a><figcaption>Berzyńskie Lake near <a href="/wiki/Wolsztyn" title="Wolsztyn">Wolsztyn</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png/250px-Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png/375px-Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png/500px-Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png 2x" data-file-width="4961" data-file-height="4961" /></a><figcaption>Greater Poland (<i>Wielkopolska</i>) and other historical lands of Poland on the map of Poland (names in Polish)</figcaption></figure> <p>Greater Poland comprises much of the area drained by the <a href="/wiki/Warta_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Warta River">Warta River</a> and its tributaries, including the <a href="/wiki/Note%C4%87" title="Noteć">Noteć River</a>. The region is distinguished from <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a> with the lowland landscape, and from both Lesser Poland and <a href="/wiki/Mazovia" title="Mazovia">Mazovia</a> with its numerous lakes. In the strict meaning, it covers an area of about 33,000 square kilometres (13,000 sq mi), and has a population of 3.5 million. In the wider sense, it has almost 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 sq mi), and 7 million inhabitants. </p><p>The region's main metropolis is <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a>, near the centre of the region, on the Warta. Other cities are <a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a> to the south-east, <a href="/wiki/Konin" title="Konin">Konin</a> to the east, <a href="/wiki/Pi%C5%82a" title="Piła">Piła</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="Ostrów Wielkopolski">Ostrów Wielkopolski</a> to the south-east, <a href="/wiki/Gniezno" title="Gniezno">Gniezno</a> (the earliest capital of Poland) to the north-east, and <a href="/wiki/Leszno" title="Leszno">Leszno</a> to the south-west. </p><p>An area of 75.84 square kilometres (29.28 sq mi) of forest and lakeland south of Poznań is designated the <a href="/wiki/Wielkopolska_National_Park" title="Wielkopolska National Park">Wielkopolska National Park</a> (<span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">Wielkopolski Park Narodowy</i></span>), established in 1957. The region also contains part of <a href="/wiki/Drawa_National_Park" title="Drawa National Park">Drawa National Park</a>, and several designated <a href="/wiki/Landscape_Park_(protected_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="Landscape Park (protected area)">Landscape Parks</a>. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Rogalin_Landscape_Park" title="Rogalin Landscape Park">Rogalin Landscape Park</a> is famous for about 2000 monumental <a href="/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oak</a> trees growing on the flood plain of the river <a href="/wiki/Warta" title="Warta">Warta</a>, among numerous <a href="/wiki/Ox-bow_lake" class="mw-redirect" title="Ox-bow lake">ox-bow lakes</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-move" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Split-arrows.svg/50px-Split-arrows.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Split-arrows.svg/75px-Split-arrows.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Split-arrows.svg/100px-Split-arrows.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="60" data-file-height="20" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">It has been suggested that this section be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">split</a> out into another article titled <i><a href="/wiki/History_of_Greater_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Greater Poland">History of Greater Poland</a></i>. (<a href="/wiki/Talk:Greater_Poland" title="Talk:Greater Poland">Discuss</a>) <small><i>(November 2023)</i></small></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Poland" title="History of Poland">History of Poland</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_Pozna%C5%84" title="History of Poznań">History of Poznań</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_and_early_modern_period">Medieval and early modern period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Medieval and early modern period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grody_w_okresie_Mieszka_I.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Grody_w_okresie_Mieszka_I.png/220px-Grody_w_okresie_Mieszka_I.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Grody_w_okresie_Mieszka_I.png/330px-Grody_w_okresie_Mieszka_I.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Grody_w_okresie_Mieszka_I.png/440px-Grody_w_okresie_Mieszka_I.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1529" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Polans_(western)" title="Polans (western)">Polan</a> strongholds during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Mieszko_I" title="Mieszko I">Mieszko I</a>, mid-10th cencury</figcaption></figure> <p>Greater Poland formed the heart of the 10th-century <a href="/wiki/History_of_Poland_during_the_Piast_dynasty" title="History of Poland during the Piast dynasty">early Polish state</a>, sometimes being called the "cradle of Poland". <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gniezno" title="Gniezno">Gniezno</a> were early centres of royal power and the seats of Poland's first Catholic diocese, est. in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Pozna%C5%84" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poznań">Poznań</a> in 968, and the first archdiocese, est. in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Gniezno" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gniezno">Gniezno</a> in 1000, but following devastation of the region by <a href="/wiki/Pagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagan">pagan</a> rebellion in the 1030s, and the invasion of <a href="/wiki/Bretislaus_I_of_Bohemia" class="mw-redirect" title="Bretislaus I of Bohemia">Bretislaus I of Bohemia</a> in 1038, the capital was moved by <a href="/wiki/Casimir_I_the_Restorer" title="Casimir I the Restorer">Casimir I the Restorer</a> from Gniezno to <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Testament_of_Boles%C5%82aw_III_Wrymouth" title="Testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth">Testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth</a>, which initiated the period of fragmentation of Poland (1138–1320), the western part of Greater Poland (including Poznań) was granted to <a href="/wiki/Mieszko_III_the_Old" class="mw-redirect" title="Mieszko III the Old">Mieszko III the Old</a>. The eastern part, with Gniezno and <a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a>, was part of the <a href="/wiki/Seniorate_Province" title="Seniorate Province">Seniorate Province</a> centered in <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a>, granted to <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_II_the_Exile" title="Władysław II the Exile">Władysław II</a>. However, for most of the period the two parts were under a single ruler, and were known as the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Greater_Poland" title="Duchy of Greater Poland">Duchy of Greater Poland</a> (although at times there were separately ruled duchies of Poznań, Gniezno, <a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Uj%C5%9Bcie" title="Ujście">Ujście</a>). It was one of the leading and fastest developing regions of Poland, with <a href="/wiki/Municipal_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal rights">municipal rights</a> modeled after Poznań and Kalisz becoming the basis of municipal form of government for several towns in the region, as two of five local Polish variants of medieval town rights. The region came under the control of <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_I_the_Elbow-high" class="mw-redirect" title="Władysław I the Elbow-high">Władysław I the Elbow-high</a> in 1314, and thus became part of the reunited Poland of which Władyslaw was crowned king in 1320. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zamek_Kolo_229.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Zamek_Kolo_229.JPG/220px-Zamek_Kolo_229.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Zamek_Kolo_229.JPG/330px-Zamek_Kolo_229.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Zamek_Kolo_229.JPG/440px-Zamek_Kolo_229.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3977" data-file-height="2641" /></a><figcaption>Ruins of <a href="/wiki/Ko%C5%82o_Castle" title="Koło Castle">Koło Castle</a> on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Warta_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Warta River">Warta River</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1264, Duke <a href="/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_the_Pious" title="Bolesław the Pious">Bolesław the Pious</a> issued the <a href="/wiki/Statute_of_Kalisz" title="Statute of Kalisz">Statute of Kalisz</a> in the region. It was a unique protective privilege for Jews during their persecution in <a href="/wiki/Western_Europe" title="Western Europe">Western Europe</a>, which in the following centuries made Poland the destination of Jewish migration from other countries. </p><p>From the late 13th century, the region experienced first German invasions and occupations. In the late 13th century, the northwestern part of Greater Poland was occupied by the <a href="/wiki/Margraviate_of_Brandenburg" title="Margraviate of Brandenburg">Margraviate of Brandenburg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1331, during the <a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Teutonic_War_(1326%E2%80%931332)" title="Polish–Teutonic War (1326–1332)">Polish–Teutonic War of 1326–1332</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Teutonic_Knights" class="mw-redirect" title="Teutonic Knights">Teutonic Knights</a> invaded central and eastern Greater Poland, however, the Poles defeated the invaders at <a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a> and an indecisive battle was fought at <a href="/wiki/Konin" title="Konin">Konin</a>. The Teutonic Knights soon retreated. King <a href="/wiki/Casimir_III_the_Great" title="Casimir III the Great">Casimir III the Great</a> regained parts of northwestern Greater Poland, including <a href="/wiki/Drezdenko" title="Drezdenko">Drezdenko</a> in 1365 and <a href="/wiki/Wa%C5%82cz" title="Wałcz">Wałcz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Czaplinek" title="Czaplinek">Czaplinek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cz%C5%82opa" title="Człopa">Człopa</a> in 1368. Poland still attempted to recover the remainder of Brandenburg-annexed northwestern Greater Poland, which in 1373 became part of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bohemia" title="Kingdom of Bohemia">Bohemian (Czech) Crown</a>, ruled by the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Luxembourg" title="House of Luxembourg">House of Luxembourg</a>. In 1402, Poland and the Luxembourgs reached an agreement, according to which Poland was to buy and re-incorporate the afforementioned territory,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but eventually the Luxembourgs sold it to the Teutonic Order. Allied Poles and Czech <a href="/wiki/Hussites" title="Hussites">Hussites</a> captured several towns of Teutonic-held northwestern Greater Poland, including <a href="/wiki/Dobiegniew" title="Dobiegniew">Dobiegniew</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strzelce_Kraje%C5%84skie" title="Strzelce Krajeńskie">Strzelce Krajeńskie</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Teutonic_War_(1431%E2%80%931435)" title="Polish–Teutonic War (1431–1435)">Polish–Teutonic War of 1431–1435</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Poznan_Braun_Hohenberg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Poznan_Braun_Hohenberg.jpg/220px-Poznan_Braun_Hohenberg.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Poznan_Braun_Hohenberg.jpg/330px-Poznan_Braun_Hohenberg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Poznan_Braun_Hohenberg.jpg/440px-Poznan_Braun_Hohenberg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="2168" /></a><figcaption>View of <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a>, ca. 1617</figcaption></figure> <p>In the reunited kingdom, and later in the <a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a>, the country came to be divided into administrative units called <a href="/wiki/Voivodeship" title="Voivodeship">voivodeships</a>. In the case of the Greater Poland region these were <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship_(14th_century_%E2%80%93_1793)" title="Poznań Voivodeship (14th century – 1793)">Poznań Voivodeship</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1314%E2%80%931793)" title="Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)">Kalisz Voivodeship</a>. The Commonwealth also had larger subdivisions known as <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/Prowincja" class="mw-redirect" title="Prowincja">prowincja</a></i></span>, one of which was named <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Province,_Crown_of_the_Kingdom_of_Poland" title="Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland">Greater Poland</a>. However, this <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">prowincja</i></span> covered a larger area than the Greater Poland region itself, also taking in <a href="/wiki/Masovia" class="mw-redirect" title="Masovia">Masovia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Prussia" title="Royal Prussia">Royal Prussia</a>. (This division of <a href="/wiki/Crown_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown Poland">Crown Poland</a> into two entities called Greater and <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a> had its roots in the <a href="/wiki/Statutes_of_Casimir_the_Great" title="Statutes of Casimir the Great">Statutes of Casimir the Great</a> of 1346–1362, where the laws of "Greater Poland" – the northern part of the country – were codified in the <a href="/wiki/Piotrk%C3%B3w_Trybunalski" title="Piotrków Trybunalski">Piotrków</a> statute, with those of "Lesser Poland" in the separate <a href="/wiki/Wi%C5%9Blica" title="Wiślica">Wiślica</a> statute.) </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PALATINATVS_POSNANIENSIS,_IN_MAIORI_POLONIA_PRIMARII_NOVA_DELINEATIO.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/PALATINATVS_POSNANIENSIS%2C_IN_MAIORI_POLONIA_PRIMARII_NOVA_DELINEATIO.PNG/220px-PALATINATVS_POSNANIENSIS%2C_IN_MAIORI_POLONIA_PRIMARII_NOVA_DELINEATIO.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/PALATINATVS_POSNANIENSIS%2C_IN_MAIORI_POLONIA_PRIMARII_NOVA_DELINEATIO.PNG/330px-PALATINATVS_POSNANIENSIS%2C_IN_MAIORI_POLONIA_PRIMARII_NOVA_DELINEATIO.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/PALATINATVS_POSNANIENSIS%2C_IN_MAIORI_POLONIA_PRIMARII_NOVA_DELINEATIO.PNG/440px-PALATINATVS_POSNANIENSIS%2C_IN_MAIORI_POLONIA_PRIMARII_NOVA_DELINEATIO.PNG 2x" data-file-width="5500" data-file-height="4348" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship" title="Poznań Voivodeship">Poznań Voivodeship</a> within the borders of the <a href="/wiki/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth</a>, 1664</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1655, Greater Poland was <a href="/wiki/Deluge_(history)" title="Deluge (history)">invaded by Sweden</a>, and several battles were fought in the region, including at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Uj%C5%9Bcie" title="Battle of Ujście">Ujście</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_K%C5%82ecko" title="Battle of Kłecko">Kłecko</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kcynia" title="Battle of Kcynia">Kcynia</a>. </p><p>In the 18th century kings <a href="/wiki/Augustus_II_the_Strong" title="Augustus II the Strong">Augustus II the Strong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Augustus_III_of_Poland" title="Augustus III of Poland">Augustus III of Poland</a> often resided in <a href="/wiki/Wschowa" title="Wschowa">Wschowa</a>, and sessions of the Senate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were held there, thus the town being dubbed the "unofficial capital of Poland".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1768 a new <a href="/wiki/Gniezno_Voivodeship" title="Gniezno Voivodeship">Gniezno Voivodeship</a> was formed out of the northern part of Kalisz Voivodeship. However more far-reaching changes would come with the <a href="/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland" title="Partitions of Poland">Partitions of Poland</a>. In the first partition (1772), northern parts of Greater Poland along the <a href="/wiki/Note%C4%87" title="Noteć">Noteć</a> (German <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Netze</i></span>) were taken over by <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussia</a>, becoming the <a href="/wiki/Netze_District" title="Netze District">Netze District</a>. In the second partition (1793) the whole of Greater Poland was absorbed by Prussia, becoming part of the province of <a href="/wiki/South_Prussia" title="South Prussia">South Prussia</a>. It remained so in spite of the first <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1794)" title="Greater Poland uprising (1794)">Greater Poland uprising (1794)</a>, part of the unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/Ko%C5%9Bciuszko_Uprising" title="Kościuszko Uprising">Kościuszko Uprising</a> directed chiefly against <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Partitions_of_Poland">Partitions of Poland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Partitions of Poland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>More successful was the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1806)" title="Greater Poland uprising (1806)">Greater Poland Uprising of 1806</a>, which led to the bulk of Greater Poland becoming part of the Napoleonic <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Warsaw" title="Duchy of Warsaw">Duchy of Warsaw</a> (forming the <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Department" title="Poznań Department">Poznań Department</a> and parts of the <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Department" title="Kalisz Department">Kalisz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bydgoszcz_Department" title="Bydgoszcz Department">Bydgoszcz</a> Departments), whereas the northwestern and northern outskirts remained part of Prussia. However, following the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna" title="Congress of Vienna">Congress of Vienna</a> in 1815, Greater Poland was again partitioned, with the western part (including Poznań) going to Prussia. The eastern part (including Kalisz) joined the Russian-controlled <a href="/wiki/Congress_Poland" title="Congress Poland">Kingdom of Poland</a>, where it formed the <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1816%E2%80%931837)" title="Kalisz Voivodeship (1816–1837)">Kalisz Voivodeship</a> until 1837, then the <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Governorate" title="Kalisz Governorate">Kalisz Governorate</a> (merged into the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Governorate" title="Warsaw Governorate">Warsaw Governorate</a> between 1844 and 1867). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wrzesnia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wrzesnia.jpg/220px-Wrzesnia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wrzesnia.jpg/330px-Wrzesnia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wrzesnia.jpg/440px-Wrzesnia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4547" data-file-height="3436" /></a><figcaption>Children from <a href="/wiki/Wrze%C5%9Bnia" title="Września">Września</a> who participated in the <a href="/wiki/Wrze%C5%9Bnia_children_strike" title="Września children strike">strike</a> against Germanisation policies</figcaption></figure> <p>Within the Prussian Partition, western Greater Poland became the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Posen" title="Grand Duchy of Posen">Grand Duchy of Posen</a> (Poznań), which theoretically held some autonomy. Following an unrealized <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Uprising_(1846)" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Poland Uprising (1846)">uprising in 1846</a>, and the more substantial but still unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Uprising_(1848)" title="Greater Poland Uprising (1848)">uprising of 1848</a> (during the <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848" title="Revolutions of 1848">Spring of Nations</a>), the Grand Duchy was replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Posen" title="Province of Posen">Province of Posen</a>. The authorities made efforts to <a href="/wiki/Germanization" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanization">Germanize</a> the region, particularly after the founding of <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the <a href="/wiki/Prussian_Settlement_Commission" title="Prussian Settlement Commission">Prussian Settlement Commission</a> was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas. The Germans imposed <a href="/wiki/Germanisation_of_Poles_during_the_Partitions" title="Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions">Germanisation</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Kulturkampf" title="Kulturkampf">Kulturkampf</a></i> policies, and the Poles organized <a href="/wiki/Resistance_movements_in_partitioned_Poland_(1795%E2%80%931918)" class="mw-redirect" title="Resistance movements in partitioned Poland (1795–1918)">resistance</a>. In the early 20th century, the <a href="/wiki/Wrze%C5%9Bnia_children_strike" title="Września children strike">Września children strike</a> against Germanisation started, which quickly spread to other places in Greater Poland and beyond, whereas <a href="/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Drzyma%C5%82a" title="Michał Drzymała">Michał Drzymała</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Drzyma%C5%82a%27s_wagon" title="Drzymała's wagon">Drzymała's wagon</a> became a regional <a href="/wiki/Folk_hero" title="Folk hero">folk hero</a>. </p><p>In the Russian Partition, <a href="/wiki/Russification_of_Poles_during_the_Partitions" title="Russification of Poles during the Partitions">Russification</a> policies were enacted, and Polish resistance was also active. The largest uprisings in Russian-controlled eastern Greater Poland were the <a href="/wiki/November_Uprising" title="November Uprising">November Uprising</a> of 1830–31 and <a href="/wiki/January_Uprising" title="January Uprising">January Uprising</a> of 1863–64. </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, Germany also occupied eastern Greater Poland, and in August 1914, the German Army carried out the <a href="/wiki/Destruction_of_Kalisz" title="Destruction of Kalisz">destruction of Kalisz</a>. Germany planned the annexation of eastern Greater Poland as part of the so-called "<a href="/wiki/Polish_Border_Strip" title="Polish Border Strip">Polish Border Strip</a>" and expulsion of its Polish inhabitants to make room for German colonization in accordance with the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebensraum" title="Lebensraum">Lebensraum</a></i> policy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interbellum">Interbellum</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Interbellum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Powst._wielkopolscy_w_uroczysto%C5%9Bci_zawiesz._sztand._z_god%C5%82em_Polski_na_ratuszu_w_Pleszewie_6.sty.1919.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Powst._wielkopolscy_w_uroczysto%C5%9Bci_zawiesz._sztand._z_god%C5%82em_Polski_na_ratuszu_w_Pleszewie_6.sty.1919.jpg/170px-Powst._wielkopolscy_w_uroczysto%C5%9Bci_zawiesz._sztand._z_god%C5%82em_Polski_na_ratuszu_w_Pleszewie_6.sty.1919.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Powst._wielkopolscy_w_uroczysto%C5%9Bci_zawiesz._sztand._z_god%C5%82em_Polski_na_ratuszu_w_Pleszewie_6.sty.1919.jpg/255px-Powst._wielkopolscy_w_uroczysto%C5%9Bci_zawiesz._sztand._z_god%C5%82em_Polski_na_ratuszu_w_Pleszewie_6.sty.1919.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Powst._wielkopolscy_w_uroczysto%C5%9Bci_zawiesz._sztand._z_god%C5%82em_Polski_na_ratuszu_w_Pleszewie_6.sty.1919.jpg/340px-Powst._wielkopolscy_w_uroczysto%C5%9Bci_zawiesz._sztand._z_god%C5%82em_Polski_na_ratuszu_w_Pleszewie_6.sty.1919.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1852" data-file-height="2246" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1918%E2%80%931919)" title="Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919)">Polish insurgents</a> place the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Poland" title="Coat of arms of Poland">coat of arms of Poland</a> on the town hall in liberated <a href="/wiki/Pleszew" title="Pleszew">Pleszew</a>, January 1919</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1918%E2%80%9319)" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Poland uprising (1918–19)">Greater Poland uprising (1918–19)</a> ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship_(1921%E2%80%931939)" class="mw-redirect" title="Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939)">Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939)</a>. Northern and some western parts of Greater Poland remained in Germany, where they formed much of the province of <a href="/wiki/Posen-West_Prussia" class="mw-redirect" title="Posen-West Prussia">Posen-West Prussia</a> (1922–1938), whose capital was Schneidemühl (<a href="/wiki/Pi%C5%82a" title="Piła">Piła</a>). To maintain contact with the Poles of German-controlled northern and western Greater Poland, Poland opened a consulate in Piła in 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1933, the Polish <i>Głos Pogranicza i Kaszub</i> newspaper was issued in <a href="/wiki/Z%C5%82ot%C3%B3w" title="Złotów">Złotów</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECygański198445_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECygański198445-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi government">Nazi government</a>, repressions of Poles intensified. In January 1939, Germany resumed <a href="/wiki/Expulsion_of_Poles_by_Germany" title="Expulsion of Poles by Germany">expulsions of Poles</a> and many were also forced to flee.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECygański198445_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECygański198445-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Sturmabteilung" title="Sturmabteilung">Sturmabteilung</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">Schutzstaffel</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Hitler_Youth" title="Hitler Youth">Hitler Youth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bund_Deutscher_Osten" title="Bund Deutscher Osten">Bund Deutscher Osten</a> launched attacks on Polish institutions, schools and activists.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECygański198446_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECygański198446-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In mid-1939 the <a href="/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a> carried out arrests of Polish activists, teachers and entrepreneurs, closed various Polish organizations and enterprises and seized their funds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECygański198446,_48_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECygański198446,_48-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Poles tried to resist German persecution, but some were forced to escape German arrest and thus fled to Poland.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECygański198447_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECygański198447-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 1939, Germany <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">invaded Poland</a> starting <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. During the attack the German army, <i><a href="/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" title="Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppen</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Selbstschutz" title="Selbstschutz">Selbstschutz</a></i> perpetrated various <a href="/wiki/Nazi_crimes_against_the_Polish_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi crimes against the Polish nation">crimes against the Polish people</a> in the occupied areas,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska200956–57,_60_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska200956–57,_60-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whereas the persecution of Poles of northern and western Greater Poland reached its climax with mass arrests of Polish activists, who were detained in temporary camps in Piła and <a href="/wiki/Lipka,_Z%C5%82ot%C3%B3w_County" title="Lipka, Złotów County">Lipka</a>, and then deported to <a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">concentration camps</a>, expulsions and closure of Polish schools and enterprises.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECygański198448–50_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECygański198448–50-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The invading troops committed multiple massacres of Polish civilians and <a href="/wiki/German_atrocities_committed_against_Polish_prisoners_of_war" title="German atrocities committed against Polish prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a>, including at <a href="/wiki/K%C5%82ecko" title="Kłecko">Kłecko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zdziechowa" title="Zdziechowa">Zdziechowa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mogilno" title="Mogilno">Mogilno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trzemeszno" title="Trzemeszno">Trzemeszno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Niewolno" title="Niewolno">Niewolno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winiary,_Kalisz" title="Winiary, Kalisz">Winiary</a>, <a href="/wiki/W%C4%85growiec" title="Wągrowiec">Wągrowiec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mielno,_Gniezno_County" title="Mielno, Gniezno County">Mielno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jankowo_Dolne" title="Jankowo Dolne">Jankowo Dolne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Podlesie_Ko%C5%9Bcielne" title="Podlesie Kościelne">Podlesie Kościelne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Obora,_Greater_Poland_Voivodeship" title="Obora, Greater Poland Voivodeship">Obora</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska200990–92,_94–95_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska200990–92,_94–95-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-034-19A,_Exekution_von_polnischen_Geiseln.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-034-19A%2C_Exekution_von_polnischen_Geiseln.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-034-19A%2C_Exekution_von_polnischen_Geiseln.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-034-19A%2C_Exekution_von_polnischen_Geiseln.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-034-19A%2C_Exekution_von_polnischen_Geiseln.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-034-19A%2C_Exekution_von_polnischen_Geiseln.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-034-19A%2C_Exekution_von_polnischen_Geiseln.jpg 2x" data-file-width="795" data-file-height="475" /></a><figcaption>Public execution of Polish civilians by the <i><a href="/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" title="Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppe VI</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B3rnik" title="Kórnik">Kórnik</a>, 20 October 1939</figcaption></figure> <p>Afterwards, the occupiers launched the <i><a href="/wiki/Intelligenzaktion" title="Intelligenzaktion">Intelligenzaktion</a></i> genocidal campaign against the Polish population, and annexed the entire region into <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. Administratively, most of Greater Poland was included within the <i><a href="/wiki/Reichsgau_Posen" class="mw-redirect" title="Reichsgau Posen">Reichsgau Posen</a></i>, later renamed <i>Reichsgau Wartheland</i> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Warthe</i></span> being the German name for the <a href="/wiki/Warta" title="Warta">Warta</a> river), whereas northern and western parts were located in the provinces of <a href="/wiki/Reichsgau_Danzig-West_Prussia" title="Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia">Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Pomerania_(1815%E2%80%931945)" title="Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)">Pomerania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Brandenburg" title="Province of Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a>. On 20–23 October 1939, the German police and <i>Einsatzgruppe</i> VI carried out mass public executions of some 300 Poles in various towns in the region, i.e. <a href="/wiki/Gosty%C5%84" title="Gostyń">Gostyń</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kostrzyn,_Greater_Poland_Voivodeship" title="Kostrzyn, Greater Poland Voivodeship">Kostrzyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ko%C5%9Bcian" title="Kościan">Kościan</a>, <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B3rnik" title="Kórnik">Kórnik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Krobia" title="Krobia">Krobia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ksi%C4%85%C5%BC_Wielkopolski" title="Książ Wielkopolski">Książ Wielkopolski</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leszno" title="Leszno">Leszno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mosina" title="Mosina">Mosina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osieczna" title="Osieczna">Osieczna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poniec" title="Poniec">Poniec</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Amigiel" title="Śmigiel">Śmigiel</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Arem" title="Śrem">Śrem</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Aroda_Wielkopolska" title="Środa Wielkopolska">Środa</a> and <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82oszakowice" title="Włoszakowice">Włoszakowice</a>, to terrorize and pacify the Poles.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska2009193–198,_191–192,_199,_205–206,_211_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska2009193–198,_191–192,_199,_205–206,_211-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Polish and Jewish population was classified by Nazis as subhuman and subjected to organized genocide,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> involving mass murder and ethnic cleansing, with many former officials and others considered potential enemies by the Nazis being imprisoned or executed, including at the notorious <a href="/wiki/Fort_VII" title="Fort VII">Fort VII</a> concentration camp in Poznań.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Major sites of massacres of Poles in the region included <a href="/wiki/Dopiewiec" title="Dopiewiec">Dopiewiec</a>, <a href="/wiki/D%C4%99bienko" title="Dębienko">Dębienko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winiary,_Kalisz" title="Winiary, Kalisz">Winiary</a>, <a href="/wiki/M%C4%99dzisko" title="Mędzisko">Mędzisko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paterek" title="Paterek">Paterek</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%81ob%C5%BCenica" title="Łobżenica">Łobżenica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rataje,_Pi%C5%82a_County" title="Rataje, Piła County">Górka Klasztorna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kobylniki,_Szamotu%C5%82y_County" title="Kobylniki, Szamotuły County">Kobylniki</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bukowiec,_W%C4%85growiec_County" title="Bukowiec, Wągrowiec County">Bukowiec</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska2009163–164,_191–192,_199,_205–206,_211_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska2009163–164,_191–192,_199,_205–206,_211-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <i><a href="/wiki/Aktion_T4" title="Aktion T4">Aktion T4</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/SS-Sonderkommandos" class="mw-redirect" title="SS-Sonderkommandos">SS-Sonderkommandos</a></i> gassed over 2,700 mentally ill people from the psychiatric hospitals in <a href="/wiki/Owi%C5%84ska" title="Owińska">Owińska</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dziekanka" title="Dziekanka">Dziekanka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ko%C5%9Bcian" title="Kościan">Kościan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska2009216–217_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWardzyńska2009216–217-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB10.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB10.JPG/220px-Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB10.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB10.JPG/330px-Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB10.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB10.JPG/440px-Fort_VII_Pozna%C5%84_RB10.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Bunker no. 16 in <a href="/wiki/Fort_VII" title="Fort VII">Fort VII</a> in Poznań, used by the German occupiers as an improvised <a href="/wiki/Gas_chamber" title="Gas chamber">gas chamber</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Germans continued the <a href="/wiki/Expulsion_of_Poles_by_Nazi_Germany" title="Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany">expulsion of Poles</a>, now also in pre-war Polish territory, with the Special Staff for the Resettlement of Poles and Jews (<i>Sonderstab für die Aussiedlung von Polen und Juden</i>) established in Poznań in November 1939, soon renamed to Office for the Resettlement of Poles and Jews (<i>Amt für Umsiedlung der Polen und Juden</i>), and eventually to Central Bureau for Resettlement (UWZ, <i>Umwandererzentralstelle</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The place of the Poles was taken by German colonists in accordance with the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebensraum" title="Lebensraum">Lebensraum</a></i> policy. Many Poles were also enslaved as <a href="/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule_during_World_War_II" title="Forced labour under German rule during World War II">forced labour</a> and either sent to forced labour camps or German colonists in the region or deported to Germany and other German-occupied countries.<sup id="cite_ref-ekw394_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ekw394-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over 270,000 Polish children aged 10–18 were subjected to forced labour in Greater Poland, which, in addition to German profits of 500 million <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Mark" title="Deutsche Mark">marks</a>, was aimed at the children's biological destruction.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Germans also operated <a href="/wiki/Germanisation_in_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Germanisation in Poland (1939–1945)">Germanisation</a> camps for <a href="/wiki/Kidnapping_of_children_by_Nazi_Germany" title="Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany">Polish children taken away from their parents</a> in Kalisz, Poznań, <a href="/wiki/Puszczykowo" title="Puszczykowo">Puszczykowo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zaniemy%C5%9Bl" title="Zaniemyśl">Zaniemyśl</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dom_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dom-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The children were given new German names and surnames, and were punished for any use of the Polish language, even with death.<sup id="cite_ref-dom_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dom-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After their stay in the camp, the children were deported to Germany; only some returned to Poland after the war, while the fate of many remains unknown to this day.<sup id="cite_ref-dom_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dom-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jews from the region were also expelled and deported to other locations, including to <a href="/wiki/Jewish_ghettos_established_by_Nazi_Germany" title="Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany">Nazi ghettos</a>, concentration camps and forced labour camps. From 1940, the occupiers also operated several forced labour camps for Jews in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-ekw394_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ekw394-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to poor feeding and sanitary conditions, epidemics spread in those camps, which, combined with frequent executions, led to a high mortality rate.<sup id="cite_ref-ekw394_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ekw394-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the order of <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a>, most of the camps were dissolved in 1943, and its surviving prisoners were sent to ghettos and death camps.<sup id="cite_ref-ekw394_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ekw394-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Szubin.Oflag_64.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Szubin.Oflag_64.JPG/220px-Szubin.Oflag_64.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Szubin.Oflag_64.JPG/330px-Szubin.Oflag_64.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Szubin.Oflag_64.JPG/440px-Szubin.Oflag_64.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3011" data-file-height="2008" /></a><figcaption>Memorial at the site of the Stalag XXI-B, <a href="/wiki/Oflag_XXI-B" title="Oflag XXI-B">Oflag XXI-B</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oflag_64" title="Oflag 64">Oflag 64</a> <a href="/wiki/German_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_World_War_II" title="German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II">POW camps</a> in <a href="/wiki/Szubin" title="Szubin">Szubin</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Germany operated several <a href="/wiki/German_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_World_War_II" title="German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II">prisoner-of-war camps</a>, including Stalag XXI-B, <a href="/wiki/Stalag_XXI-C" title="Stalag XXI-C">Stalag XXI-C</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stalag_XXI-D" title="Stalag XXI-D">Stalag XXI-D</a>, Stalag XXI-E, Stalag 302, <a href="/wiki/Oflag_II-C" title="Oflag II-C">Oflag II-C</a>, Oflag XXI-A, <a href="/wiki/Oflag_XXI-B" title="Oflag XXI-B">Oflag XXI-B</a>, Oflag XXI-C and <a href="/wiki/Oflag_64" title="Oflag 64">Oflag 64</a>, for Polish, <a href="/wiki/French_prisoners_of_war_in_World_War_II" title="French prisoners of war in World War II">French</a>, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, Belgian, Dutch, Serbian, American, <a href="/wiki/Italian_Military_Internees" title="Italian Military Internees">Italian</a>, South African and other <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> POWs in the region. There were also multiple forced labour subcamps of the <a href="/wiki/Stalag_II-B" title="Stalag II-B">Stalag II-B</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stalag_II-D" title="Stalag II-D">Stalag II-D</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stalag_XX-A" title="Stalag XX-A">Stalag XX-A</a> POW camps in the region,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/List_of_subcamps_of_Gross-Rosen" title="List of subcamps of Gross-Rosen">subcamp</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Gross-Rosen_concentration_camp" title="Gross-Rosen concentration camp">Gross-Rosen concentration camp</a> in Owińska,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a subcamp of the <a href="/wiki/Stutthof_concentration_camp" title="Stutthof concentration camp">Stutthof concentration camp</a> in <a href="/wiki/Obrzycko" title="Obrzycko">Obrzycko</a>, a subcamp of the <a href="/wiki/Ravensbr%C3%BCck_concentration_camp" title="Ravensbrück concentration camp">Ravensbrück concentration camp</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Pomorski" title="Kalisz Pomorski">Kalisz Pomorski</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a camp for <a href="/wiki/Sinti" title="Sinti">Sinti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romani_people" title="Romani people">Romani people</a> in Piła.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A particularly notorious prison camp was operated in <a href="/wiki/%C5%BBabikowo,_Lubo%C5%84" title="Żabikowo, Luboń">Żabikowo</a>, where mostly Poles were imprisoned, but also Luxembourgers, Dutch, Hungarians, Slovaks, Americans, Russians and deserters from the <i>Wehrmacht</i>, and many were tortured and executed.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II" title="Polish resistance movement in World War II">Polish resistance movement</a> was active in the region, including the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_Armed_Struggle" title="Union of Armed Struggle">Union of Armed Struggle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bataliony_Ch%C5%82opskie" class="mw-redirect" title="Bataliony Chłopskie">Bataliony Chłopskie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gray_Ranks" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray Ranks">Gray Ranks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Home_Army" title="Home Army">Home Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201128–33_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201128–33-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Polish_Underground_State" title="Polish Underground State">Polish Underground State</a> was organized, and in July 1940, even an underground Polish parliament was established in Poznań.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201134,_36_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201134,_36-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Activities included <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Poland_during_World_War_II" title="Education in Poland during World War II">secret Polish schooling</a>, secret Catholic services, printing and distribution of <a href="/wiki/Polish_underground_press" title="Polish underground press">Polish underground press</a>, sabotage actions, espionage of German activity, military trainings, production of false documents, preparations for a planned uprising, and even secret <a href="/wiki/Football_in_Poland" title="Football in Poland">football</a> games.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201123–26,_31–32_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201123–26,_31–32-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Polish resistance provided aid to people in need, including prisoners, escapees from camps and ghettos and deserters from the German army, rescued Polish children kidnapped by the Germans,<sup id="cite_ref-dom_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dom-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and facilitated escapes of Allied prisoners of war from German POW camps.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201123_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201123-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Germans cracked down on the resistance several times,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201126_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPietrowicz201126-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and even <a href="/wiki/Kidnapping_of_ethnic_Polish_children_by_Nazi_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Kidnapping of ethnic Polish children by Nazi Germany">kidnapped children</a> of the resistance members and sent them to a camp for Polish children in <a href="/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA" title="Łódź">Łódź</a>, nicknamed "little <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz</a>" due to its conditions, where many died.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From August 1944 to January 1945, the Germans used hundreds of thousands of Poles as forced labour to build fortifications in the region ahead of the advancing <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ekw394_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ekw394-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1945, before and during their retreat, the Germans committed several further massacres of Polish civilians, prisoners and Polish and other Allied POWs, including at <a href="/wiki/Pleszew" title="Pleszew">Pleszew</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marchwacz" title="Marchwacz">Marchwacz</a>, Żabikowo, <a href="/wiki/%C5%81omnica,_Nowy_Tomy%C5%9Bl_County" title="Łomnica, Nowy Tomyśl County">Łomnica</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ku%C5%BAnica_%C5%BBelichowska" title="Kuźnica Żelichowska">Kuźnica Żelichowska</a> and perpetrated several <a href="/wiki/Death_marches_during_the_Holocaust" title="Death marches during the Holocaust">death marches</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poznań was declared a <a href="/wiki/German_World_War_II_fortresses" title="German World War II fortresses">fortress</a> in the closing stages of the war, being taken by the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pozna%C5%84_(1945)" title="Battle of Poznań (1945)">Battle of Poznań</a>, which ended on 22 February 1945. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war_period">Post-war period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Post-war period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the war, Greater Poland was fully reintegrated with Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the 1980s. The region experienced several waves of anti-communist protests and strikes, including the <a href="/wiki/1956_Pozna%C5%84_protests" title="1956 Poznań protests">1956 Poznań protests</a> and the 1980 strikes in various cities and towns,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which led to the foundation of the <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity</a> organization, which played a central role in the end of communist rule in Poland. </p><p>With the reforms of 1975 it was divided into seven provinces, partially or wholly located in Greater Poland (the voivodeships of <a href="/wiki/Bydgoszcz_Voivodeship" title="Bydgoszcz Voivodeship">Bydgoszcz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gorz%C3%B3w_Voivodeship" title="Gorzów Voivodeship">Gorzów</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1975%E2%80%931998)" title="Kalisz Voivodeship (1975–1998)">Kalisz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konin_Voivodeship" title="Konin Voivodeship">Konin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leszno_Voivodeship" title="Leszno Voivodeship">Leszno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pi%C5%82a_Voivodeship" title="Piła Voivodeship">Piła</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship" title="Poznań Voivodeship">Poznań</a>). The present-day <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Voivodeship" title="Greater Poland Voivodeship">Greater Poland Voivodeship</a>, again with Poznań as its capital, was created in 1999, however, parts of Greater Poland are located in the <a href="/wiki/Kuyavian-Pomeranian_Voivodeship" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship">Kuyavian-Pomeranian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lubusz_Voivodeship" title="Lubusz Voivodeship">Lubusz</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA_Voivodeship" title="Łódź Voivodeship">Łódź</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Pomeranian_Voivodeship" title="West Pomeranian Voivodeship">West Pomeranian</a> voivodeships. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sights">Sights</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Sights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stare_Miasto_w_Poznaniu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Stare_Miasto_w_Poznaniu.jpg/220px-Stare_Miasto_w_Poznaniu.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Stare_Miasto_w_Poznaniu.jpg/330px-Stare_Miasto_w_Poznaniu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Stare_Miasto_w_Poznaniu.jpg/440px-Stare_Miasto_w_Poznaniu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3947" data-file-height="2126" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Old_Town" title="Poznań Old Town">Poznań Old Town</a> with its elaborate tenements, splendid churches and the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_in_Poland" title="Renaissance in Poland">Renaissance</a> <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Town_Hall" title="Poznań Town Hall">Town Hall</a> is among the most recognizable landmarks of Greater Poland and the entire country</figcaption></figure> <p>The region is rich in historical architecture of various styles from <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture">Gothic</a> through <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_architecture" title="Renaissance architecture">Renaissance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baroque_architecture" title="Baroque architecture">Baroque</a> to <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">Neoclassical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Art_Nouveau_in_Poland" title="Art Nouveau in Poland">Art Nouveau</a>. </p><p>Greater Poland boasts 13 <a href="/wiki/List_of_Historic_Monuments_(Poland)" title="List of Historic Monuments (Poland)">Historic Monuments of Poland</a>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biskupin" title="Biskupin">Biskupin</a> archaeological site</li> <li>Gorzeński Palace and park complex in <a href="/wiki/Dobrzyca" title="Dobrzyca">Dobrzyca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_in_Poland" title="Renaissance in Poland">Renaissance</a> <a href="/wiki/Basilica_on_the_Holy_Mountain,_G%C5%82og%C3%B3wko" title="Basilica on the Holy Mountain, Głogówko">Basilica on the Holy Mountain, Głogówko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gniezno_Cathedral" title="Gniezno Cathedral">Royal Gniezno Cathedral</a><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Former Cistercian abbey in <a href="/wiki/Go%C5%9Bcikowo" title="Gościkowo">Gościkowo</a></li> <li>Manor and park complex in <a href="/wiki/Koszuty,_%C5%9Aroda_Wielkopolska_County" title="Koszuty, Środa Wielkopolska County">Koszuty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B3rnik_Castle" title="Kórnik Castle">Kórnik Castle</a> and park complex with the <a href="/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_K%C3%B3rnik" title="All Saints' Church, Kórnik">All Saints' Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B3rnik" title="Kórnik">Kórnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C4%85d_Abbey" title="Ląd Abbey">Ląd Abbey</a></li> <li>Benedictine Monastery with the <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_architecture_in_Poland" title="Romanesque architecture in Poland">Romanesque</a>-Gothic-Baroque Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in <a href="/wiki/Lubi%C5%84,_Ko%C5%9Bcian_County" title="Lubiń, Kościan County">Lubiń</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ostr%C3%B3w_Lednicki" title="Ostrów Lednicki">Ostrów Lednicki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Old_Town" title="Poznań Old Town">Poznań Old Town</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Ostr%C3%B3w_Tumski,_Pozna%C5%84" title="Ostrów Tumski, Poznań">Ostrów Tumski</a>, and the adjacent <a href="/wiki/Park_Cytadela" class="mw-redirect" title="Park Cytadela">Park Cytadela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Winiary" title="Fort Winiary">Fort Winiary</a></li> <li>Baroque Raczyński Palace and park complex in <a href="/wiki/Rogalin" title="Rogalin">Rogalin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rydzyna" title="Rydzyna">Rydzyna</a> Old Town with the Baroque <a href="/wiki/Rydzyna_Castle" title="Rydzyna Castle">Rydzyna Castle</a></li></ul> <p>Major museums include the Museum of Polish State Origins in Gniezno, and the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum,_Pozna%C5%84" title="National Museum, Poznań">National Museum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wielkopolska_Museum_of_Independence" title="Wielkopolska Museum of Independence">Wielkopolska Museum of Independence</a> in Poznań. Several castles and palaces house museums, such as those in Dobrzyca, <a href="/wiki/Go%C5%82uch%C3%B3w_Castle" title="Gołuchów Castle">Gołuchów</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jarocin" title="Jarocin">Jarocin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ko%C5%82aczkowo,_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_County" title="Kołaczkowo, Września County">Kołaczkowo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ko%C5%BAmin_Wielkopolski" title="Koźmin Wielkopolski">Koźmin Wielkopolski</a>, Kórnik, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Castle,_Pozna%C5%84" title="Royal Castle, Poznań">Poznań</a>, Rogalin and <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Amie%C5%82%C3%B3w" title="Śmiełów">Śmiełów</a>. </p><p>Poland's largest church, the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_Liche%C5%84" title="Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń">Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń</a>, is located in the region. </p><p>The oldest preserved European signpost beyond the boundaries of the former <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> is located in <a href="/wiki/Konin" title="Konin">Konin</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Cuisine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2017_-_Imieniny_Ulicy_%C5%9Awi%C4%99ty_Marcin_-_rogale_%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tomarci%C5%84skie_11.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/2017_-_Imieniny_Ulicy_%C5%9Awi%C4%99ty_Marcin_-_rogale_%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tomarci%C5%84skie_11.jpg/220px-2017_-_Imieniny_Ulicy_%C5%9Awi%C4%99ty_Marcin_-_rogale_%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tomarci%C5%84skie_11.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/2017_-_Imieniny_Ulicy_%C5%9Awi%C4%99ty_Marcin_-_rogale_%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tomarci%C5%84skie_11.jpg/330px-2017_-_Imieniny_Ulicy_%C5%9Awi%C4%99ty_Marcin_-_rogale_%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tomarci%C5%84skie_11.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/2017_-_Imieniny_Ulicy_%C5%9Awi%C4%99ty_Marcin_-_rogale_%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tomarci%C5%84skie_11.jpg/440px-2017_-_Imieniny_Ulicy_%C5%9Awi%C4%99ty_Marcin_-_rogale_%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tomarci%C5%84skie_11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3888" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St._Martin%27s_croissant" title="St. Martin's croissant">St. Martin's croissants</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to traditional nationwide <a href="/wiki/Polish_cuisine" title="Polish cuisine">Polish cuisine</a>, Greater Poland is known for its variety of regional and local <a href="/wiki/Traditional_food" title="Traditional food">traditional foods</a> and drinks, which include especially various meat products (incl. various types of <a href="/wiki/Kie%C5%82basa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiełbasa">kiełbasa</a>), <a href="/wiki/Cheese" title="Cheese">cheeses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honey" title="Honey">honeys</a>, beverages and various dishes and meals, officially protected by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Agriculture_and_Rural_Development_(Poland)" title="Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Poland)">Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland</a>. Among the most known local <a href="/wiki/Snack" title="Snack">snacks</a> are the <a href="/wiki/St._Martin%27s_croissant" title="St. Martin's croissant">St. Martin's croissant</a> from <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_andruts" title="Kalisz andruts">Kalisz andruts</a>. </p><p>Notable centers of traditional meat production include <a href="/wiki/Grodzisk_Wielkopolski" title="Grodzisk Wielkopolski">Grodzisk Wielkopolski</a>, <a href="/wiki/Krotoszyn" title="Krotoszyn">Krotoszyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kruszewnia" title="Kruszewnia">Kruszewnia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nowy_Tomy%C5%9Bl" title="Nowy Tomyśl">Nowy Tomyśl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rawicz" title="Rawicz">Rawicz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trzcianka" title="Trzcianka">Trzcianka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Z%C5%82otniki,_Pozna%C5%84_County" title="Złotniki, Poznań County">Złotniki</a>, whereas centers of traditional cheese and <a href="/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product)" title="Quark (dairy product)">quark</a> production include <a href="/wiki/W%C4%85growiec" title="Wągrowiec">Wągrowiec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gniezno" title="Gniezno">Gniezno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oborniki" title="Oborniki">Oborniki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Witkowo" title="Witkowo">Witkowo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Witoldzin" title="Witoldzin">Witoldzin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wrze%C5%9Bnia" title="Września">Września</a>. </p><p>A plethora of traditional Polish honey is produced in various places, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Note%C4%87" title="Noteć">Noteć</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warta" title="Warta">Warta</a> river valleys in the north and west. Notable centers of honey production include <a href="/wiki/Pszczew" title="Pszczew">Pszczew</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wa%C5%82cz" title="Wałcz">Wałcz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuczno" title="Tuczno">Tuczno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lubiszyn" title="Lubiszyn">Lubiszyn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stare_Drawsko" title="Stare Drawsko">Stare Drawsko</a> in northern and western Greater Poland and <a href="/wiki/Kopaszewo" title="Kopaszewo">Kopaszewo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Witos%C5%82aw,_Greater_Poland_Voivodeship" title="Witosław, Greater Poland Voivodeship">Witosław</a> in southern Greater Poland. The Saint Michael's Honey Fair is held annually in <a href="/wiki/Gorz%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="Gorzów Wielkopolski">Gorzów Wielkopolski</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Grodzisk_Wielkopolski" title="Grodzisk Wielkopolski">Grodzisk Wielkopolski</a> is the place of origin of the <a href="/wiki/Grodziskie" title="Grodziskie">Grodziskie</a> beer style. Other traditional <a href="/wiki/Beer_in_Poland" title="Beer in Poland">Polish beers</a>, officially protected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland, are produced in <a href="/wiki/Bojanowo" title="Bojanowo">Bojanowo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Czarnk%C3%B3w" title="Czarnków">Czarnków</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mi%C5%82os%C5%82aw" title="Miłosław">Miłosław</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nak%C5%82o_nad_Noteci%C4%85" title="Nakło nad Notecią">Nakło nad Notecią</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wschowa" title="Wschowa">Wschowa</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Football_in_Poland" title="Football in Poland">Football</a> and <a href="/wiki/Speedway_in_Poland" title="Speedway in Poland">speedway</a> enjoy the largest following in Greater Poland. The most accomplished football teams are <a href="/wiki/Lech_Pozna%C5%84" title="Lech Poznań">Lech Poznań</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warta_Pozna%C5%84" title="Warta Poznań">Warta Poznań</a>. 18-times <a href="/wiki/Team_Speedway_Polish_Championship" title="Team Speedway Polish Championship">Team Polish Champions</a> (as of 2023), <a href="/wiki/Unia_Leszno" title="Unia Leszno">Unia Leszno</a>, is the most accomplished speedway team in Poland, and other accomplished teams in the region are <a href="/wiki/Stal_Gorz%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski">Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polonia_Pi%C5%82a" title="Polonia Piła">Polonia Piła</a>. </p><p>Main <a href="/wiki/Handball_in_Poland" title="Handball in Poland">handball</a> clubs are <a href="/wiki/MKS_Kalisz" title="MKS Kalisz">MKS Kalisz</a>, <a href="/wiki/KPR_Ostrovia_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="KPR Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski">KPR Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nielba_W%C4%85growiec_(handball)" title="Nielba Wągrowiec (handball)">Nielba Wągrowiec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stal_Gorz%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski">Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grunwald_Pozna%C5%84_(handball)" title="Grunwald Poznań (handball)">Grunwald Poznań</a> and <a href="/wiki/KPR_Wolsztyniak_Wolsztyn" title="KPR Wolsztyniak Wolsztyn">KPR Wolsztyniak Wolsztyn</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Field_hockey" title="Field hockey">Field hockey</a> enjoys less popularity, however, the region is dominant in the sport in Poland, with 80 of the 86 men's Polish Championships won by local teams (as of October 2023). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_cities">Main cities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Main cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following table lists the cities in proper Greater Poland with a population greater than 25,000 (2015): </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" width="84%"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:1%;"> </th> <th style="width:16%;">City </th> <th style="width:6%;">Population (2015)<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="width:9%;">Voivodeship in 1750 </th> <th style="width:14%;">Voivodeship in 2016 </th> <th style="width:37%;">Additional information </th></tr> <tr> <td align="right">1. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Pozna%C5%84_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/POL_Pozna%C5%84_COA.svg/20px-POL_Pozna%C5%84_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/POL_Pozna%C5%84_COA.svg/30px-POL_Pozna%C5%84_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/POL_Pozna%C5%84_COA.svg/40px-POL_Pozna%C5%84_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="744" data-file-height="1134" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a> </td> <td align="right">548,028 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship_(14th_century_to_1793)" class="mw-redirect" title="Poznań Voivodeship (14th century to 1793)">Poznań</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Voivodeship" title="Greater Poland Voivodeship">Greater Poland</a> </td> <td><small>Former capital of Poland,<br />medieval <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Greater_Poland" title="Duchy of Greater Poland">provincial ducal</a> capital in Poland,<br />former <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship_(14th_century_%E2%80%93_1793)" title="Poznań Voivodeship (14th century – 1793)">voivodeship</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Province,_Crown_of_the_Kingdom_of_Poland" title="Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland">province</a> capital,<br />historical capital of Greater Poland,<br />former <a href="/wiki/Royal_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal city">royal city</a> of Poland.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">2. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Kalisz_COA_1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/POL_Kalisz_COA_1.svg/20px-POL_Kalisz_COA_1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/POL_Kalisz_COA_1.svg/30px-POL_Kalisz_COA_1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/POL_Kalisz_COA_1.svg/40px-POL_Kalisz_COA_1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="705" data-file-height="871" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a> </td> <td align="right">103,997 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1314%E2%80%931793)" title="Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)">Kalisz</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Medieval <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Kalisz" title="Duchy of Kalisz">provincial ducal</a> capital in Poland,<br />former <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1314%E2%80%931793)" title="Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)">voivodeship</a> capital,<br />historical capital of Greater Poland,<br />former royal city of Poland.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">3. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Konin_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/POL_Konin_COA.svg/20px-POL_Konin_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/POL_Konin_COA.svg/30px-POL_Konin_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/POL_Konin_COA.svg/40px-POL_Konin_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="532" data-file-height="614" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Konin" title="Konin">Konin</a> </td> <td align="right">77,224 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Kalisz </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former royal city of Poland.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">4. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Pi%C5%82a_COA_1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/POL_Pi%C5%82a_COA_1.svg/20px-POL_Pi%C5%82a_COA_1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/POL_Pi%C5%82a_COA_1.svg/30px-POL_Pi%C5%82a_COA_1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/POL_Pi%C5%82a_COA_1.svg/40px-POL_Pi%C5%82a_COA_1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="543" data-file-height="704" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Pi%C5%82a" title="Piła">Piła</a> </td> <td align="right">74,609 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Poznań </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former royal city of Poland.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">5. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/POL_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_COA.svg/20px-POL_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/POL_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_COA.svg/30px-POL_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/POL_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_COA.svg/40px-POL_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="888" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="Ostrów Wielkopolski">Ostrów Wielkopolski</a> </td> <td align="right">72,890 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Kalisz </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former <a href="/wiki/Private_town" title="Private town">private town</a> of the Przebendowski family.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">6. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Gniezno_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/POL_Gniezno_COA.svg/20px-POL_Gniezno_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/POL_Gniezno_COA.svg/30px-POL_Gniezno_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/POL_Gniezno_COA.svg/40px-POL_Gniezno_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="519" data-file-height="757" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Gniezno" title="Gniezno">Gniezno</a> </td> <td align="right">69,883 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Kalisz </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former capital of Poland,<br />medieval <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Gniezno" title="Duchy of Gniezno">provincial ducal</a> capital in Poland,<br />former <a href="/wiki/Gniezno_Voivodeship" title="Gniezno Voivodeship">voivodeship</a> capital,<br />former royal city of Poland,<br />ecclesiastical capital of Poland.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">7. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Leszno_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/POL_Leszno_COA.svg/20px-POL_Leszno_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/POL_Leszno_COA.svg/30px-POL_Leszno_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/POL_Leszno_COA.svg/40px-POL_Leszno_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="547" data-file-height="638" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Leszno" title="Leszno">Leszno</a> </td> <td align="right">64,589 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Poznań </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former private town of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Leszczy%C5%84ski" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Leszczyński">Leszczyński family</a>.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">8. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Swarz%C4%99dz_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/POL_Swarz%C4%99dz_COA.svg/20px-POL_Swarz%C4%99dz_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/POL_Swarz%C4%99dz_COA.svg/30px-POL_Swarz%C4%99dz_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/POL_Swarz%C4%99dz_COA.svg/40px-POL_Swarz%C4%99dz_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="522" data-file-height="726" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Swarz%C4%99dz" title="Swarzędz">Swarzędz</a> </td> <td align="right">31,084 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Poznań </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former private town of the Grudziński family, part of the Poznań metropolitan area.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">9. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Lubo%C5%84_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/POL_Lubo%C5%84_COA.svg/20px-POL_Lubo%C5%84_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/POL_Lubo%C5%84_COA.svg/30px-POL_Lubo%C5%84_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/POL_Lubo%C5%84_COA.svg/40px-POL_Lubo%C5%84_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="863" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Lubo%C5%84" title="Luboń">Luboń</a> </td> <td align="right">30,676 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Poznań </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Part of the Poznań metropolitan area.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">10. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_%C5%9Arem_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/POL_%C5%9Arem_COA.svg/20px-POL_%C5%9Arem_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/POL_%C5%9Arem_COA.svg/30px-POL_%C5%9Arem_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/POL_%C5%9Arem_COA.svg/40px-POL_%C5%9Arem_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Arem" title="Śrem">Śrem</a> </td> <td align="right">30,152 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Poznań </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former royal city of Poland.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">11. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/POL_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_COA.svg/20px-POL_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/POL_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_COA.svg/30px-POL_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/POL_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_COA.svg/40px-POL_Wrze%C5%9Bnia_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="744" data-file-height="939" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Wrze%C5%9Bnia" title="Września">Września</a> </td> <td align="right">29,552 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Kalisz </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former private town.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">12. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Krotoszyn_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/POL_Krotoszyn_COA.svg/20px-POL_Krotoszyn_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/POL_Krotoszyn_COA.svg/30px-POL_Krotoszyn_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/POL_Krotoszyn_COA.svg/40px-POL_Krotoszyn_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="744" data-file-height="744" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Krotoszyn" title="Krotoszyn">Krotoszyn</a> </td> <td align="right">29,397 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Kalisz </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former private town.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">13. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Jarocin_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/POL_Jarocin_COA.svg/20px-POL_Jarocin_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/POL_Jarocin_COA.svg/30px-POL_Jarocin_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/POL_Jarocin_COA.svg/40px-POL_Jarocin_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="528" data-file-height="767" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Jarocin" title="Jarocin">Jarocin</a> </td> <td align="right">26,311 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Kalisz </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td><small>Former private town.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">14. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Wa%C5%82cz_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/POL_Wa%C5%82cz_COA.svg/20px-POL_Wa%C5%82cz_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/POL_Wa%C5%82cz_COA.svg/30px-POL_Wa%C5%82cz_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/POL_Wa%C5%82cz_COA.svg/40px-POL_Wa%C5%82cz_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="744" data-file-height="867" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Wa%C5%82cz" title="Wałcz">Wałcz</a> </td> <td align="right">26,231 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_pozna%C5%84skie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Poznań</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_zachodniopomorskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_zachodniopomorskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_zachodniopomorskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_zachodniopomorskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_zachodniopomorskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_zachodniopomorskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_zachodniopomorskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="743" data-file-height="844" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/West_Pomeranian_Voivodeship" title="West Pomeranian Voivodeship">West Pomeranian</a> </td> <td><small>Former royal city of Poland.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">15. </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_W%C4%85growiec_COA_1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/POL_W%C4%85growiec_COA_1.svg/20px-POL_W%C4%85growiec_COA_1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/POL_W%C4%85growiec_COA_1.svg/30px-POL_W%C4%85growiec_COA_1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/POL_W%C4%85growiec_COA_1.svg/40px-POL_W%C4%85growiec_COA_1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="3135" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/W%C4%85growiec" title="Wągrowiec">Wągrowiec</a> </td> <td align="right">25,178 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kaliskie_IRP_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="915" /></a></span> Kalisz </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/20px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/30px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg/40px-POL_wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="875" /></a></span> Greater Poland </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ayuntamiento,_Poznan,_Polonia,_2014-09-18,_DD_67-72_HDR.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Poznań Town Hall"><img alt="Poznań Town Hall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ayuntamiento%2C_Poznan%2C_Polonia%2C_2014-09-18%2C_DD_67-72_HDR.jpg/122px-Ayuntamiento%2C_Poznan%2C_Polonia%2C_2014-09-18%2C_DD_67-72_HDR.jpg" decoding="async" width="122" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ayuntamiento%2C_Poznan%2C_Polonia%2C_2014-09-18%2C_DD_67-72_HDR.jpg/183px-Ayuntamiento%2C_Poznan%2C_Polonia%2C_2014-09-18%2C_DD_67-72_HDR.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ayuntamiento%2C_Poznan%2C_Polonia%2C_2014-09-18%2C_DD_67-72_HDR.jpg/244px-Ayuntamiento%2C_Poznan%2C_Polonia%2C_2014-09-18%2C_DD_67-72_HDR.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3088" data-file-height="5064" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Town_Hall" title="Poznań Town Hall">Poznań Town Hall</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kalisz_ratusz_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kalisz Town Hall"><img alt="Kalisz Town Hall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Kalisz_ratusz_2018.jpg/200px-Kalisz_ratusz_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Kalisz_ratusz_2018.jpg/300px-Kalisz_ratusz_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Kalisz_ratusz_2018.jpg/400px-Kalisz_ratusz_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Kalisz" title="Kalisz">Kalisz</a> Town Hall</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:20160127_1250_leszno_st_nicolaus_church_083-pah-3e-mk-a-pp-cr.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Baroque St. Nicholas' Church in Leszno"><img alt="Baroque St. Nicholas' Church in Leszno" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/20160127_1250_leszno_st_nicolaus_church_083-pah-3e-mk-a-pp-cr.jpg/200px-20160127_1250_leszno_st_nicolaus_church_083-pah-3e-mk-a-pp-cr.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/20160127_1250_leszno_st_nicolaus_church_083-pah-3e-mk-a-pp-cr.jpg/300px-20160127_1250_leszno_st_nicolaus_church_083-pah-3e-mk-a-pp-cr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/20160127_1250_leszno_st_nicolaus_church_083-pah-3e-mk-a-pp-cr.jpg/400px-20160127_1250_leszno_st_nicolaus_church_083-pah-3e-mk-a-pp-cr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="741" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Baroque St. Nicholas' Church in <a href="/wiki/Leszno" title="Leszno">Leszno</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SM_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_Ratusz_2022_(3754).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Market Square and Town Hall in Ostrów Wielkopolski"><img alt="Market Square and Town Hall in Ostrów Wielkopolski" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SM_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_Ratusz_2022_%283754%29.jpg/200px-SM_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_Ratusz_2022_%283754%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SM_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_Ratusz_2022_%283754%29.jpg/300px-SM_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_Ratusz_2022_%283754%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SM_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_Ratusz_2022_%283754%29.jpg/400px-SM_Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski_Ratusz_2022_%283754%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5022" data-file-height="3348" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Market Square and Town Hall in <a href="/wiki/Ostr%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="Ostrów Wielkopolski">Ostrów Wielkopolski</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Renesansowy_zamek_w_Go%C5%82uchowie_ed.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Renaissance Gołuchów Castle"><img alt="Renaissance Gołuchów Castle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Renesansowy_zamek_w_Go%C5%82uchowie_ed.jpg/200px-Renesansowy_zamek_w_Go%C5%82uchowie_ed.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Renesansowy_zamek_w_Go%C5%82uchowie_ed.jpg/300px-Renesansowy_zamek_w_Go%C5%82uchowie_ed.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Renesansowy_zamek_w_Go%C5%82uchowie_ed.jpg/400px-Renesansowy_zamek_w_Go%C5%82uchowie_ed.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3538" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Renaissance <a href="/wiki/Go%C5%82uch%C3%B3w_Castle" title="Gołuchów Castle">Gołuchów Castle</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Liche%C5%84,_Stary_Liche%C5%84,_Polonia,_2016-12-21,_DD_33-35_HDR.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marian sanctuary in Licheń near Konin"><img alt="Marian sanctuary in Licheń near Konin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Liche%C5%84%2C_Stary_Liche%C5%84%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_33-35_HDR.jpg/200px-Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Liche%C5%84%2C_Stary_Liche%C5%84%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_33-35_HDR.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Liche%C5%84%2C_Stary_Liche%C5%84%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_33-35_HDR.jpg/300px-Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Liche%C5%84%2C_Stary_Liche%C5%84%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_33-35_HDR.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Liche%C5%84%2C_Stary_Liche%C5%84%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_33-35_HDR.jpg/400px-Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Liche%C5%84%2C_Stary_Liche%C5%84%2C_Polonia%2C_2016-12-21%2C_DD_33-35_HDR.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7602" data-file-height="5072" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Marian sanctuary in <a href="/wiki/Liche%C5%84" class="mw-redirect" title="Licheń">Licheń</a> near <a href="/wiki/Konin" title="Konin">Konin</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Town_hall_tower_in_Znin_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Main square and medieval town hall tower in Żnin"><img alt="Main square and medieval town hall tower in Żnin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Town_hall_tower_in_Znin_%282%29.jpg/200px-Town_hall_tower_in_Znin_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Town_hall_tower_in_Znin_%282%29.jpg/300px-Town_hall_tower_in_Znin_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Town_hall_tower_in_Znin_%282%29.jpg/400px-Town_hall_tower_in_Znin_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5009" data-file-height="3734" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Main square and medieval town hall tower in <a href="/wiki/%C5%BBnin" title="Żnin">Żnin</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pa%C5%82ac_Szo%C5%82drskich_w_Czempiniu_-_Elewacja_ogrodowa.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Szołdrski Palace in Czempiń"><img alt="Szołdrski Palace in Czempiń" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Pa%C5%82ac_Szo%C5%82drskich_w_Czempiniu_-_Elewacja_ogrodowa.jpg/200px-Pa%C5%82ac_Szo%C5%82drskich_w_Czempiniu_-_Elewacja_ogrodowa.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Pa%C5%82ac_Szo%C5%82drskich_w_Czempiniu_-_Elewacja_ogrodowa.jpg/300px-Pa%C5%82ac_Szo%C5%82drskich_w_Czempiniu_-_Elewacja_ogrodowa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Pa%C5%82ac_Szo%C5%82drskich_w_Czempiniu_-_Elewacja_ogrodowa.jpg/400px-Pa%C5%82ac_Szo%C5%82drskich_w_Czempiniu_-_Elewacja_ogrodowa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5136" data-file-height="3424" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Szołdrski Palace in <a href="/wiki/Czempi%C5%84" title="Czempiń">Czempiń</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_Voivodeship" title="Greater Poland Voivodeship">Greater Poland Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_history_of_Poland" title="Bibliography of the history of Poland">Bibliography of the history of Poland</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greater_Poland&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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(1314–1793)">Kalisz Voivodeships</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">until 1793</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Voivodeship" title="Poznań Voivodeship">Poznań</a> / <a href="/wiki/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1314%E2%80%931793)" title="Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)">Kalisz</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gniezno_Voivodeship" title="Gniezno Voivodeship">Gniezno Voivodeships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netze_District" title="Netze District">Netze District</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">until 1806</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Prussia" title="South Prussia">South Prussia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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