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Białowieża Forest (Belarusian: ??????????? ?????, Biełaviežskaja Pušča; Polish: Puszcza Białowieska Polish pronunciation: ?pu?t??a ?b?aw??v??ska ( listen); Russian: ??????????? ????, Belovezhskaya Pushcha) is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain.
The forest is home to 800 European bison, Europe's heaviest land animal.2 UNESCO?s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) designated the Polish Biosphere Reserve Białowieża in 19763 and the Belarusian Biosphere Reserve Belovezhskaya Puschcha in 1993.4 In 2015, the Belarusian Biosphere Reserve occupied the area of 216,200 ha (2,162 km2; 835 sq mi), subdivided into transition, buffer and core zones.5 The forest has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site6 and an EU Natura 2000 Special Area of Conservation.
Książ (German: Schloss Fürstenstein) is a castle in Wałbrzych in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
It was built in 1288-1292 under Bolko I the Strict.
It lies within a protected area called Książ Landscape Park, overlooks the Pełcznica River and is one of the city's main tourist attractions. he original fortification was destroyed in the year 1263 by Ottokar II of Bohemia.
Bolko I, Duke of Świdnica and Jawor built a new castle between 1288 and 1292.
Duke Bolko II of Świdnica died in 1368 without having children with his wife Agnes von Habsburg.
After her death in the year 1392 King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia obtained the castle.
In 1401 Janko from Chociemice obtained the castle.
The Bohemian Hussites occupied the castle between 1428-1429.
In the year 1464 Birka from Nasiedla obtained the castle from the Bohemian crown.
He sold it to Hans von Schellendorf.
The Seven Wonders of Poland (Polish: Siedem cudów Polski) was a short list of cultural wonders located in Poland.
The creation of the list was initiated by the leading Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita in a country-wide plebiscite held in September 2007.1 The results were published in the following month.2 Initially over 400 national monuments were selected as candidates by the magazine online-readers, however in the second round of selections a board of experts reduced the number to 27.
The third and last round of public on-line voting started on 31 August 2007, to choose the top seven wonders.
Results of the popular vote were announced on 21 September 2007.Źródło: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_Poland.