Warta Poznań

Warta Poznań (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvarta ˈpɔznaɲ]) is a multi-sports club based in Poznań, Poland.

Founded in 1912, the association football section are two-time winners of the Polish Football Championship, in 1929 and 1947, but currently reside in the Polish Second League. The name means the Guard in Polish and also a name of river Warta on which Poznań is located. The club also played in second level between 1951–1952 (2 seasons), 1956–1960 (5 seasons), 1970–1971, 1973–1975, 1977–1979, 1991–1993, 1995–1996, 1997–1998 and since 2007. They played in the top level last between 1993–1995.

The club has also one of the most successful field hockey and tennis teams in the country.

Honours

Warta

The Warta (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvaɾta] German: Warthe; Latin: Varta) is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. With a length of approximately 808 kilometres (502 mi) it is the country's third longest river. The Warta has a basin area of 54,529 square kilometers, and it is navigable from Kostrzyn nad Odrą to Konin, approximately half of its length. It is connected to the Vistula by the river Noteć and the Bydgoszcz Canal (Kanał Bydgoski) near Bydgoszcz.

Course

It rises in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland at Kromołów in Zawiercie, Silesian Voivodeship, flows through Łódź Land, Greater Poland and Lubusz Land, where it empties into the Oder near Kostrzyn at the border with Germany.

The Greater Polish Warta river basin was the original Poland —it is said that the Polans (Polish: Polanie), a West Slavic tribe, inhabited the Warta river basin from the 8th century. The river is also mentioned in the second stanza of the Mazurek Dąbrowskiego Polish national anthem.

Warta (disambiguation)

Warta refers to:

Warta, Poland

Warta [ˈvarta] (German: Liebwart; Yiddish: Dvart‎) is a town in Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,392 inhabitants (2004). It is situated on the Warta River. The town had a number of Jewish inhabitants who were sent to the Ghettos and eventually to the concentration camps during World War II.

Gallery

A Bernardine friar painting, Warta monastery

A Bernardine friar painting, Warta monastery

Statue of Stanisław Skarżyński in his hometown, Warta

Statue of Stanisław Skarżyński in his hometown, Warta

Park in Warta

Park in Warta

Cemetery chapel in Warta

Cemetery chapel in Warta

Media related to Warta (powiat sieradzki) at Wikimedia Commons Coordinates: 51°42′N 18°38′E / 51.700°N 18.633°E / 51.700; 18.633