Czerniaków
Warsaw Neighborhood in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Czerniaków (disambiguation).
Czerniaków is a neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and the river itself.
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Coordinates: 52.207383°N 21.051089°E / 52.207383; 21.051089 | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Masovian |
County/City | Warsaw |
Notable landmarks | Bernardine Monastery and St. Antony of Padua Church, 19th century wooden mansion, Mound of the Warsaw Uprising |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | +48 22 |
Website | http://www.czerniakow.com/ |
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Called Czerniakowo since the Middle Ages, it was then merely a small village located well to the south of the Warsaw's Old Town. In the 19th century the area became densely built-up and became populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of society, which gave birth to a specific local version of the Warsaw dialect. During the Warsaw Uprising the area was one of the last Polish strongholds.