Portal:Poland/Did you know/28


 * ... that the Franciscan Church (pictured) in Zamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
 * ... that the extinct trapdoor spider Baltocteniza was identified from a specimen preserved in Baltic amber owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences?
 * ... that French Marshal Claude Victor-Perrin, was captured by a Prussian freikorps on his way to command the 1807 Siege of Kolberg  (now Kołobrzeg)?
 * ... that the Polish State Forests agency oversees 77.8 percent of forestland in Poland?
 * ... that Polish anti-Communist fighter turned Stalinist informant, Edward Wasilewski, committed suicide in 1968, on the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia?