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Strzelno is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The town is located 18 km (11.18 mi) south of Inowrocław. According to the June 2005 Census, the population numbered 22,486. It is located in the historic region of Kuyavia. In local baptism records from 1792, the town is spelled as Strzellno.
Norbertine monastery complex with the Holy Trinity Church (right) and Saint Procopius Church (left)
Privilege of Pope Celestine III for the monastery in Strzelno issued in Rome in 1193.
Monastery (back view)
Romanesque Saint Procopius Church
The Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region against German rule. The uprising had a significant effect on the Treaty of Versailles, which granted a reconstituted Second Polish Republic the area won by the Polish insurrectionists. The region had been part of the Kingdom of Poland and then Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth before the 1793 Second Partition of Poland when it was annexed by the German Kingdom of Prussia. It had also, following the 1806 Greater Poland uprising, been part of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815), a French puppet state during the Napoleonic Wars.
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 during Grenzschutz in the station of Lissa in 1919.
Soldiers of the Greater Poland Army during the winter of 1919/20