Polish town, city, and village names (outside Poland)
From the Polandian blog: Warsaw, Indiana and other non-Polish oddities
Polish place names crop up all over North America and other parts of the globe settled by Poles. Nothing particularly amazing about that, but when you’re lying in bed with the dreaded January virus it’s possible to become a little obsessed with looking them all up. From there it’s a small step to collecting photos of all these geographical orphans, and from there it’s more or less inevitable that one will move on to putting together a blog post about it. It’s a cycle with all the hideous inevitability of the slippery slope from sniffing magic markers to crack cocaine…
Several years ago I had a similar idea. I wanted to create a database of Polish place names in the United States. About 1/2 hour into the project I gave up. I like this blogger’s approach to doing this, with pictures and all. Well done and interesting.
Thanks, glad you found it informative. I too had to stop well short of what I would have liked to do, it would be a monster project to put together a comprehensive list.
Polandian,
Thanks for the notice. I like what you’re doing with your collaborative blogging. Would have loved to have been there for your bloggers get-together on Warsaw’s old town.
Dcn. Jim
Coming Sept. 17, 2009 Kresy-Siberia.org Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum. what happened to the 1.8 / 2. million Polish that were deported to Siberia? Why is this part of history not in the books? Soviet Occupation of the Polish in the east need to speak out. This will alter history as taught in the books. You can help, tell the history of this genocide and may the world know the truth.