Definition & Meaning | English word POLAND

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Definitions of POLAND

1. A number of places in USA:
2. A village on in Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
3. A surname.
4. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland.

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Examples of Using POLAND in a Sentence

• Alexander was elected grand duke of Lithuania upon the death of his father and became king of Poland upon the death of his elder brother John I Albert.
• After Germany initiated World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp.
• Adalbert was later declared the patron saint of the Czech Republic, Poland, and the Duchy of Prussia.
• The distribution of the aurochs progressively contracted during the Holocene due to habitat loss and hunting, with the last known individual dying in the Jaktorów forest in Poland in 1627.
• He was transferred among prisons in various countries including a year in Poland, as part of a United States extraordinary rendition program.
• Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying feudal homage to his cousin, the King of Poland, Sigismund Augustus, on 19 July 1569 in Lublin.
• The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
• It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.
• Brandenburg borders Poland and the states of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony.
• Base CRM, an enterprise software company founded in 2009 with offices in Mountain View and Kraków, Poland.
• In the first and second centuries AD they, or a people with the same name, were mentioned by Roman writers living west of the Vistula river in the region of Germania which is now part of Poland.
• In addition, the archaeological evidence indicates that in the 2nd century BC Celts expanded from Bohemia through the Kłodzko Valley into Silesia, now part of Poland and the Czech Republic.
• The Bastarnae, Bastarni or Basternae, also known as the Peuci or Peucini, were an ancient people who are known from Greek and Roman records to have inhabited areas north and east of the Carpathian mountains between about 300 BC and about 300 AD, stretching in an ark from the sources of the Vistula in present day Poland and Slovakia, to the Lower Danube, and including all or most of present day Moldava.
• During the invasion of Poland, Western journalists adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe that form of armored warfare.
• From the 10th century onwards, Bamberg became a key link with the Slav peoples, notably those of Poland and Pomerania.
• The Battle of Świecino (named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Die Schlacht bei Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462, during the Thirteen Years' War.
• Whilst the region is variously defined, it often includes Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Transylvania as part of Romania.
• The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast.
• In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to Hungary and Poland (the territories of southern Slovakia with a predominantly Hungarian population to Hungary and Zaolzie with a predominantly Polish population to Poland).
• It is bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the north.

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