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The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings in an exclusively residential section of Warsaw. It developed between about 1860 and 1920, and includes notable examples of Italianate , Queen Anne , and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.
View of Warsaw near the end of the 16th century, by Frans Hogenberg. However, by 1575 (when Stephen Báthory became the Polish king), assemblies were held in another Warsovian suburb at Wielka Wola (now the city's western district, Wola). The stormiest elections were those of 1575 and 1587, when matters came to blows between the divided nobles.
Chłodna Street in 1932. Much like the rest of Wola, Mirów was an industrial suburb inhabited by the working classes until the First World War.In the early 20th century and during the interbellum period (1918–1939), it was gradually redeveloped with large houses and tenements, characteristic to the big capitals of Europe.
Śródmieście (pronounced [ɕrudˈmjɛɕt͡ɕɛ], literally 'City centre') is the central district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. It encompasses the Old Town , the city's historic core, and is the centre of cultural, commercial and political life of the capital.
The current coat of arms of Warsaw The coat of arms of Old Warsaw is located on the cover of the book "Regestrum proventuum et expensorum civitatis antiq [ue] varsaviae" from 1652 The mermaid in the centre of Warsaw's Old Town The mermaid on the Vistula river The mermaid at the Stanisław Markiewicz viaduct The mermaid by Wojciech Czerwosz The mermaid by Jerzy Chojnacki
The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.
Warsaw is located in north-central Gallatin County, along the south bank of the Ohio River. Across the river is the unincorporated community of Florence, Indiana; the closest river crossing is the Markland Dam Bridge, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the west (downstream).
Warsaw Old Town, [a] also known as Old Town, [b] and historically known as Old Warsaw, [c] [1] is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Śródmieście. [2]