FLAG AND ANTHEM OF POLAND Czech team Poland

FLAG AND ANTHEM OF POLAND Czech team

Poland • Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe • Poland bordered by Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast, and Lithuania. • The capital city is Warsaw

Poland • The total area of Poland is 312, 679 square kilometres making it the 9 th largest in Europe. • With a population of over 38. 5 million people • Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions.

Rawicz • Rawicz is a town in central Poland with 21, 398 inhabitants • The town was founded by Adam Olbracht Przyjma. Przyjemski for Protestant refugees from Silesia during the Thirty Years War. • Our partners come from Gimnazjum Adama Olbrachta Przyjmy - Przyjemskiego w Sierakowie in Rawicz

Flag of Poland • The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width. • The upper one is white and the lower one is red. • The two colors are defined in the Polish constitution as the national colors. • Red and white derive from the colors of the coats of arms of the two constituent nations, of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Legend • According to legend, the White Eagle emblem originated when Poland's legendary founder Lech saw a white eagle's nest. When he looked at the bird, a ray of sunshine from the red setting sun fell on its wings, so they appeared tipped with gold, the rest of the eagle was pure white. He was delighted and decided to settle there and placed the eagle on his emblem.

Coat of arms • The coat of arms of Poland is a white, crowned eagle with a golden beak and talons. • A variant of the flag with the national coat of arms in the middle of the white stripe is legally reserved for official use abroad and at sea.

Right and obligation to fly the flag • Everyone can use the Polish flag, especially during national and cultural events, as long as it is done in a respectful manner • Until 2004, Polish citizens were only allowed to fly the Polish flag on national holidays

• Flag with coat of arms should be only flown: 1. on or in front of Polish embassies, consulates and other representative offices and missions abroad, 2. at civilian airports, heliports, 3. airplanes– only during international flights, on buildings of seaport • Flag without coat of arms should be flown on official buildings: 1. hause of parlament, 2. the President of the Republic, 3. Council of Ministers 4. states and gou

Anthem • The national anthem of Poland is Mazurek Dąbrowskiego. • It is also known by its original title, "Pieśń Legionów Polskich we Włoszech„. • The lyrics were written by Józef Wybicki in Northern Italy, between 16 and 19 of July, 1797. (It was song of the Polish Legions in Italy. ) • The music is an unattributed mazurka and considered a folk tune.

• • • English translation of Anthem of Poland March, march. . . The German nor the Muscovite will settle When, with a backsword n hand, "Concord" will be everybody's watchword And so will be our fatherland. March, march. . . A father, in tears, Says to his Basia Listen, our boys are said To be beating the tarabans. March, march. . . All exclaim in unison, "Enough of this slavery!" We've got the scythes of Racławice, Kościuszko, if God wills. • • • Poland has not yet died, So long as we still live. What the alien power has seized from us, We shall recapture with a sabre. March, march, Dąbrowski, to Poland from the Italian land. Under your command. We shall rejoin the nation. Like Czarniecki to Poznań Returned across the sea To save his homeland After the Swedish partition. March, march. . . We'll cross the Vistula and the Warta, We shall be Polish. Bonaparte has given us the example Of how we should prevail.

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