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| Motto: "Leszno - tu chce się żyć!" "Leszno - you want to live here!" |
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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Greater Poland | ||
| County | city county | ||
| Established | 14th century | ||
| Town rights | 1547 | ||
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| - Mayor | Tomasz Malepszy | ||
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| - Total | 31. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Voivodeship The voivodeship or province (województwo has been a high-level Administrative subdivision of Poland since the 14th century Greater Poland Voivodeship (also known as Wielkopolska Province or by its Polish name of województwo wielkopolskie or simply Wielkopolskie) is a A powiat (pronounced; Polish plural powiaty) is the second-level unit of Local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a County Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 9 km² (12. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 3 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2008) | |||
| - Total | 71,000 | ||
| - Density | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","/km² (Expression error: Unexpected < operator/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 64-100 to 64-106, 64-110 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 65 | ||
| Car plates | PL | ||
| Website: http://www.leszno.pl | |||
Leszno [ˈlɛʂnɔ] (listen ), German Lissa, is a town in central Poland with 71,000 habitants (2008). The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks In common with many Countries, Polish car number plates indicate the Region of Registration of the Vehicle encoded in the number plate Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship since 1999, it was previously the capital of the Leszno Voivodeship (1975-1998). Greater Poland Voivodeship (also known as Wielkopolska Province or by its Polish name of województwo wielkopolskie or simply Wielkopolskie) is a Leszno Voivodeship (województwo leszczyńskie was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998 superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship
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History
Leszno was first mentioned in historical documents in 1393. The settlement was then the property of Stefan z Karnina of Clan Wieniawa. Wieniawa is a Polish Coat of Arms. It was used by several Szlachta families in the times of the Polish-Lithuanian The family adopted the surname of Leszczyński from the name of their estate according to the medieval custom of the Polish nobility. Leszczyński, plural Leszczyńscy is the Surname of a Polish noble family Szlachta ( refers to the noble class in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (since 1569 semi-federal semi-confederal
In the early 16th century a community of Protestant Unity of the Brethren refugees from Bohemia settled in Leszno invited by the Leszczyński family, who were since 1473 imperial counts and had converted to Calvinism. The Unity of the Brethren ( Czech: Jednota bratrská, Latin: Unitas Fratrum, also known as Czech or Bohemian Brothers Bohemia (Čechy; Bohemia Czechy is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands, currently the Leszczyński, plural Leszczyńscy is the Surname of a Polish noble family Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the The arrival of the Bohemian Protestants as well as weavers from nearby Silesia helped the settlement to grow and made it possible to became a town in 1547 by a privilege given by King Sigismund I the Old. Etymology One theory claims that the name Silesia is derived from the Silingi, who were most likely a Vandalic (East Germanic people Sigismund I the Old (Zygmunt I Stary Žygimantas II Senasis 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) of the Jagiellon dynasty reigned as Leszno was also the biggest printing center in Greater Poland thanks to the activity of the Protestant community, whose number increased because of inflow of German refugees from Silesia during the Thirty Years War. Greater Poland or Great Poland, Polish Wielkopolska (Großpolen Latin: Polonia Maior) is a historical region of west-central Poland For the Mauritanian Thirty Years' War see Char Bouba war. For the band see The 30 Years War. At the time it already had a Gymnasium school led for a period by Jan Amos Komenský (known in English as Comenius), a Bohemian educator who was a member of the Unity of the Brethren. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský Ján Amos Komenský Johann Amos Comenius Jan Amos Komeński Comenius Ámos János latinized: Iohannes Amos Comenius The Unity of the Brethren ( Czech: Jednota bratrská, Latin: Unitas Fratrum, also known as Czech or Bohemian Brothers From 1638 to his death in 1647, Johann Heermann, a German-speaking poet, lived in Leszno. Johann Heermann ( 11 October, 1585 - 17 February, 1647) German Poet and Hymn -writer Between 1736 and 1639 the town became fortified and its area increased. The golden era of Leszno ended with a large fire in 1655. During the Great Northern War the town was burned again in 1707 and had a plague in 1709. The Great Northern War (1700-21 was fought between Russia and Sweden for supremacy in the Baltic Sea. The Leszczyński family owned the city until 1738 when king Stanisław Leszczyński sold it after he abdicated for the second time. Stanisław I Leszczyński (October 20 1677 – February 23 1766 was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke
During the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Leszno was annexed by Prussia and became part of Province of Posen as Lissa. The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state The Province of Posen (Provinz Posen Prowincja Poznańska was a province of Prussia from 1848-1918 and as such part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918 the whole The town took part in the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) and was returned to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles on 1920 January 17. The Greater Poland Uprising of 1918&ndash1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918&ndash1919 ( Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918&ndash19 roku; Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca The town was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1939. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers The Polish population was resettled to the General Government. The General Government (Generalgouvernement refers to a part of the territories of Poland (and Ostrava Czechoslovakia under German Military occupation Most of the town's Jewish population (which in its history included such famous rabbis as Leo Baeck and Jacob of Lissa as well as the Polish-Jewish writer Ludwig Kalisch) was exterminated by the Nazis. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Rabbi (pronunciation, although in English usually) in Judaism, means a religious ‘teacher’ or more literally ‘my great one’ when addressing any master Leo Baeck ( May 23, 1873 &ndash November 2, 1956) was an 20th century German - Polish - Jewish Rabbi scholar and Yaakov ben Yaakov Moshe Lorberbaum of Lissa (1760-1832 (known in English as Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa or Jacob Lorberbaum or Jacob Lisser Ludwig Kalisch ( September 7, 1814, Lissa - March 3, 1882, Paris) was a Polish - German Jewish Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German See the photograph "Execution of Poles by Einsatzkommando" in the Wikipedia article Einsatzgruppen. Einsatzgruppen ( German: "task forces" "intervention groups" were Paramilitary groups formed by Heinrich Himmler and The town returned to Poland in 1945. After the war, the city underwent a period of fast development especially between 1975 and 1998 when it was a seat of a voivodeship administrative area. This article concerns both historical and contemporary voivodeships in various countries In 2000 the city was awarded "The Golden Star of Town Twinning" prize by the European Commission. The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union.
Sport
- Unia Leszno speedway club http://www.unia.leszno.pl/
- Leszno Aero Club http://www.aeroklub.leszno.pl/
Education
- Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa http://www.pwsz.edu.pl/
- Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna
- Wyższa Szkoła Marketingu i Zarządzania http://www.wsmiz.edu.pl/
People
- Leszczyński family
- Jan Amos Komenský
- Johann Heermann
- King Stanisław I (Leszczyński), later Duke of Lorraine
- Haym Solomon
- Leo Baeck
- Jacob of Lissa
- Albert Mosse
- Ludwig Kalisch
- Stefan Grot-Rowecki
- Stanisław Grochowiak
- Bogdan Golik
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