Portal:Poland/Did you know/48


 * ... that the Polish street food known as zapiekanka (pictured) has been described both as "Polish pizza" and "a poor relative of its distant Italian cousin"?
 * ... that Polish-born Joseph Conrad has been described as one of the "two great English-language writers of sea stories"?
 * ... that six members of the Polish-Ruthenian noble Szeptycki family were bishops, some Greek Catholic and one Roman Catholic?
 * ... that a forest glade near Palmiry became "one of the most notorious places of mass executions" in Poland after Nazi war crimes were committed there?