Polonia
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- proper noun
- Archaic
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Polonia
- In 1932, the Order formed the Polonia Society and the Ukrainian American Fraternal Union, and in 1933, the Romanian American Fraternal Society.
And you find this in Polonia when he talks about personal knowledge.
- And you find this in Polonia when he talks about personal knowledge.
Examples
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In the face of what James S. Pula called "restructuring Polonia," the Alliance needed to rebuild its membership.
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Grouping the few leftist elements in Polonia, the organization professed adherence to the course followed by Joseph Pilsudski in Poland.
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And you find this in Polonia when he talks about personal knowledge.
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One concern that prolonged negotiations was doubt among Polonia's leaders that the United States would allow recruitment for the army.
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Together, the Alliance and Bojanowski propagated Polish classical music within and beyond Polonia's boundaries.
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These considerations also engaged the leadership of Polonia's feuding organizations, but for the most part hardly mattered to the volunteers who joined the army.
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Warsaw attempted, especially in the 1930s, to inspire the creation of an organization around which Polonia's institutional infrastructure could be centralized in support of Polish political interests.
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Maj. Joseph Kozlowski took the place of Lieutenant Gasiorowski, who in any case had run afoul of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the piano virtuoso who spoke for Polonia.
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To be fair—and something that pretty much sums up how surprising that weekend was in terms of results—only Polonia Warszawa was expected to win firmly at struggling Podbeskidzie, and they did just that through Łukasz Pi.
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In historical literature, Polonia often represents the rich culture and heritage of Poland.
Synonyms
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A country in central Europe with cities like Warsaw
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The name for the country Poland in the Polish language
An official name for the country Poland in central Europe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Polonia is the old Latin and poetic name for the country of Poland. It comes from a Slavic root pole meaning 'field', the idea of a 'land of fields', so historians and poets use Polonia as a literary or historical name for Poland.