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The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe. Countries in the Baltic Sea Region are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.

Norway is a neighbouring country (next to Sweden) and Belarus and Ukraine have historical ties with the Region.


What do you know about Poland?


Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) attended the Jagiellonian University at the end of the fifteenth century. Copernicus was an astronomer who published the theory of a sun-centred solar system.

In 1683 John III (Jan Sobieski), the Polish King, saved Vienna from a Turkish seige. After the invading army left a large amount of coffee was found in their supplies. This led to the establishment of the first coffee house in Vienna.

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was born in Poland. She moved to Paris where she worked with her husband, Pierre. Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes for Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911). The awards were for her work on the discovery of radioactivity and radium respectively.

During the Second World War Oskar Schindler ran a factory that saved the lives of over a thousand of his Jewish workers. Schindler drew up a list of his staff and persuaded the Nazis that they were essential workers.



Find out more about Poland from the WIZ Linking the World project. News from POLAND can be found on World InfoZone's Newslink

We would like to thank the Polish Embassy for the photographs

WIZ Feature: Dzien dobry from Poland