Recent content by burak

1) If counting PM as well, we had female PM, Hanna Suchocka in 90's 2) not much minority races in Poland, but there was one MP from Bangladesh 3) again, counting prime ministers, Jerzy Buzek was evangelican 4) Aleksander Kwasniewski was probably atheist, he just didn't say it loud 5) that...

Yes, ts all from Romans. Eagle was seen as a symbol of Roman Empire, and was used by states claiming succession of it. Therefore german kings used eagle as symbol of their Holy Roman Empire. it was also used by byzantine Empire. After Constantinople has fallen, Russia adopted it's double-headed...

Holy Roman Empire civ is a joke. What's next? USSR civ? European Union civ? Mughal Empire? Third Reich? Kalmar Union? These are not civs, but just country names. Civs are Germans, Russians, Indians etc.

I suppose any of polish famous commanders is unknown beyond Poland: Stanisław Żółkiewski - battle of Kłuszyn, captured Moscow Jan Karol Chodkiewicz - battle of Kircholm, battle of Chocim Stanisław Koniecpolski - battle of Trzciana, where he defeated Gustav Adolf...

And how many countries in the world have Dutch as official language? Netherlands and Suriname:rolleyes: And about the arguments about Netherlands and Poland being world empires, while Poland was only a local power. How many people lived in these Dutch and Portuguese colonies in, say, XVII...

How about some maps, cause i feel some posters have only bleak idea how Poland really looked then: 1097 1387 Poland and Lithuania after union made largest country in Europe. 1600. Poland in Europe 1630 Poland at its heighth. Polish troops conquered Moscow in 1612, and in 1620s held off...

1st era: former crown was better. Compare to this http://free.art.pl/poczetkrolow/Mieszko_1.JPG it's Poland's first ruler Mieszko. 2nd era: isn't that a japanese armor? 4th era: neither background nor his uniform are polish. better just give him a black suit. As background this should be good...

What do you mean by Warsaw Palace? I hope not this: it was built in 1954.

I understand you count Danes, Norwegians and Swedes as Vikings. But Dutch and Swiss? Also aren't Niels Stensen and Niels Steensen the same person? BTW. I support what LDEska said. Keep the Poles for Poland.

austria or Byzantium didn't have their "own" language as well.

^^So you agree that until 1654 it was Poland holding back Russian expansion in the west? And btw how would Austria hold back Russia, if it even hadn't border with them? Austrian and Russian borders met only in 1793, after 2nd partitioning of Poland by these countries.

Well, maybe this is the argument: Doesn't a country that occupied much of central Europe for 300 years deserve to be in as much a Portugal or Netherlands?

Sure antisemitism was widespread everywhere, but a4phantom seems to identify it only with Poland. He also makes claims like " the Polish hatred of the jews killed a great many, both before and after the Germans arrived" while I wonder if he knows how many Poles lost their lives saving jews (in...

May I ask from what source you got such knowledge about polish-jewish relations? And did you ever thought why there were so many Jews in Poland (about half of all european jews lived there before 1939)? Jews must have been pretty masochistic people to live in country, which would treat them as...

also should be included: Italians Lithuanians Indonesians (Javans?) Get rid of: Huns (they were barbarians, not civilization Aborigines and all other triber that have never created any civilization Ottomans (ottoman empire was just a name of turkish state, its like including British...