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Leszno is a historic city in western Poland, seat of Leszno County within the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the seventh-largest city in the province with an estimated population of 59 521, as of 2
City view from Leszno 2023
City view from Leszno 2023
Leszno Saint Nicholas church 2022 P25
Polish postil published in Leszno in 1651
The Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 or Poznań War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region against German rule. The uprising had a
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…2,365 (14%) reported Polish; the Jewish population was 802 (4.6%). After World War I, in November 1918, Poland regained independence. Shortly after the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–19 broke out, attempting to reintegrate Greater Poland and Leszno with Poland. The first local battles of the uprising took place in the area…
Polish soldiers in trenches on the Polish–German front, January 1919
Soldiers and workers assembling to elect a council in Poznań, 10 November 1918
German armored train protecting German borders in the station of Lissa in 1919.
Soldiers of the Greater Poland Army during the winter of 1919/20