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Gdańsk Agreement. The Gdańsk Agreement (or Gdańsk Social Accord (s) or August Agreement (s), Polish: Porozumienia sierpniowe) was an accord reached between the government of the Polish People's Republic and the striking shipyard workers in Gdańsk, Poland. The accord, signed in late August 1980 by government representative Mieczysław ...
Dariusz Miłek. Dariusz Miłek (born 1 February 1968) is a Polish businessman and entrepreneur, ranked the fourth-wealthiest person in Poland by Forbes magazine in 2015. He is the chairman of CCC SA [ pl], Poland's largest retail company. [1]
Poland, [ e] officially the Republic of Poland, [ f] is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with population of over 39 million people, and the seventh-largest EU country, covering a combined area of 312,696 km 2 (120,733 sq mi).
1980 Lublin strikes. The 1980 Lublin strikes (also known as Lublin July, Polish: Lubelski Lipiec) were the series of workers' strikes in the eastern part of the city of Lublin ( People's Republic of Poland ), demanding better salaries and lower prices of food products. They began on July 8, 1980, at the State Aviation Works in Świdnik, a town ...
Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
Polish złoty. The Polish złoty (alternative spelling: zloty; [ 3] Polish: polski złoty, Polish: [ˈzwɔtɨ] ⓘ; [ a] abbreviation: zł; code: PLN) [ b] is the official currency and legal tender of Poland. It is subdivided into 100 grosz ( gr ). [ c] It is the most traded currency in Central and Eastern Europe and ranks 21st most-traded in ...
The history of interwar Poland comprises the period from the revival of the independent Polish state in 1918, until the Invasion of Poland from the West by Nazi Germany in 1939 at the onset of World War II, followed by the Soviet Union from the East two weeks later. The two decades of Poland's sovereignty between the world wars are known as the ...
A new stock exchange law was passed in 1921 and again in 1926 and 1935. The Polish exchanges were subject to the world crises of 1929, but they recovered in the second half of the 1930s until the Second World War. In 1939 Poland was occupied by German and Soviet forces and all Polish stock exchanges were closed. [12]