Żerków
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Żerków is a town in Jarocin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,122 inhabitants. It is located 53 kilometres east of the regional capital of Poznań.
Church of Saint Stanislaus
Memorial to Poles fallen in the fights for Poland's independence in World War I, Greater Poland Uprising, Polish–Soviet War and World War II
Province of Posen
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The Province of Posen was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, comprising most of the historical Greater Poland. The province was established following the Poznań Uprising of 1848 a
Żerków
…by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. It was re-annexed by Prussia in 1815, and from 1815 until 1920 it was a part of the Province of Posen. As a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles, the town became a part of the newly founded Second Polish Republic. After the joint German-Soviet invasion…
1919 German army permit to enter the Polish territory of Posen, just ceded to Poland.