How to Study at SGH - Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
How to Study at SGH - Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
How to Study at SGH - Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
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where you can meet weird, extravagant individuals always desiring sens<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
The newspaper comes out in Polish, but intern<strong>at</strong>ional students are welcome <strong>to</strong> particip<strong>at</strong>e,<br />
as other languages are not forbidden either! MAGIEL edi<strong>to</strong>rs’ office Main building entresol,<br />
room 66 a tel. (+48 22) 564 97 57 magiel@sgh.waw.pl; http://www.sgh.waw.pl/magiel<br />
Living in Warsaw & Poland<br />
Popul<strong>at</strong>ion 38 000 000 Area 312 683 km 2<br />
Coast line (Baltic Sea) 491 km<br />
Boundaries:<br />
Czech Republic 658 km<br />
Belarus 605 km<br />
Germany 456 km<br />
Slovakia 444 km<br />
Ukraine 428 km<br />
Russia (Kaliningrad) 206 km<br />
Lithuania 91 km<br />
Language Polish<br />
Currency 1 złoty = 100 groszy<br />
(1 EUR = approxim<strong>at</strong>ely 4 zlotys)<br />
Capital Warsaw (around 2.000 000 inhabitants)<br />
Largest cities: Łódź (774.000 inhabitants), Cracow (770.000)<br />
Clim<strong>at</strong>e<br />
Moder<strong>at</strong>e, between maritime and continental: cold and cloudy winters (from l<strong>at</strong>e Oc<strong>to</strong>ber<br />
until March), hot or mild summers with showers, temper<strong>at</strong>ures average 20°C in summer<br />
and –3,3°C in winter.<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional holidays:<br />
Constitution Day – May 3 (1791);<br />
Independence Day – November 11 (1918)<br />
His<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
Poland’s written his<strong>to</strong>ry begins with Mieszko I, who united the Slavic tribes and accepted<br />
Christianity in 966. The Polish st<strong>at</strong>e reached its zenith after the union with the Jagiellonian<br />
dynasty of Lithuania in 1386 and the defe<strong>at</strong> of the Teu<strong>to</strong>nic Knights in 1410. The<br />
monarchy survived many upheavals and declined with the three partitions of Poland<br />
between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the last one taking place in 1795.<br />
The country regained its independence on November 11, 1918, after World War I and<br />
kept it for twenty years. On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the<br />
Ribbentrop-Molo<strong>to</strong>v non-aggression pact, which accounted for the dismemberment of<br />
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