http://www.passportchop.com/europe/poland/cracow-city-tours-auschwitz-birkenau-concentration-camp/ Asia-Pacific Best Travel and Lifestyle Blog - PassportChop.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:58:03 +0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.passportchop.com/europe/poland/cracow-city-tours-auschwitz-birkenau-concentration-camp/comment-page-1/#comment-2562 William Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:03:23 +0000 http://www.passportchop.com/?p=325#comment-2562 The statue on Plac Matejki which you mention near the beginning of this post commemorates the victory by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Teutonic (German) knights at Grunwald in 1410. A big reenactment of the battle took place this summer (2010) at the battlefield. The Teutonic Knights, outsiders from the West whose ranks included knights from all over Europe (see Chaucer's Knights Tale) were a dominant power in medieval Eastern Europe, but they were defeated by a coalition of Slavic knights. Aside from the Poles, whose king led the victorious coalition, the Germans and the Russians both attach great symbolic importance to the Battle of Grunwald and regarded it as a precedent for their gigantic struggles in World War I and World War II. I really like your website and enjoyed your articles on Krakow, which I know well. The statue on Plac Matejki which you mention near the beginning of this post commemorates the victory by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Teutonic (German) knights at Grunwald in 1410. A big reenactment of the battle took place this summer (2010) at the battlefield. The Teutonic Knights, outsiders from the West whose ranks included knights from all over Europe (see Chaucer’s Knights Tale) were a dominant power in medieval Eastern Europe, but they were defeated by a coalition of Slavic knights. Aside from the Poles, whose king led the victorious coalition, the Germans and the Russians both attach great symbolic importance to the Battle of Grunwald and regarded it as a precedent for their gigantic struggles in World War I and World War II.
I really like your website and enjoyed your articles on Krakow, which I know well.

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