Praga

Praga is a historical suburb of Warsaw, Poland east of the Vistula - now a city district of Warsaw on the Vistula page. This first eastern suburb was incorporated only in the 19th century, but sometimes all the urban districts named Praga are called. A particularly beautiful views of the Old Town Warsaw Praga offers from the bank of the Vistula.

Structure

The Warsaw denote the two historic eastern suburbs or present-day eastern parts of the city right bank as Praga. These consist administratively divided into two parts:

• Polnoc Praga ( Praga = North) - including the communities Szmulowizna, Pelcowizna, Stara Praga and Nowa Praga

• Praga Południe ( = Praga South) - including the communities Grochów, Saska Kępa and Gocław or Kamionek

Further meaning

The Vistula sometimes to all parts east called Praga - In the broadest sense are in today's parlance - though not historically correct. These include the following parts of the city next to the actual historical Praga:

• Białołęka
• Rembertów
• Targówek
• Wawer
• Wesoła

History

In the 16th century, when Warsaw became the new capital of Poland, the city grew far beyond the ancient walls of the old and new town and had at that time more than 50,000 inhabitants. Around the same time new districts or suburbs emerged on both sides of the Vistula. Between 1568 and 1573 the first 500 m long Vistula bridge was built on 18 pillars - one of the longest bridges in Europe at that time, what the extent of the city development on the right bank of the Vistula, which was called Praga favored. In 1648 Praga received the first new enclosed settlement on the right bank of the Vistula, the city rights and thus became the first suburb east of Warsaw. As of 1776, the old town was connected by another bridge with the right bank located Praga. In 1794 it came under the Kościuszko Uprising, the Battle of Praga, which ended with a heavy defeat for the Polish troops and ultimately led to the third partition of Poland. During the November Uprising of 1830 there were 1831 in the Battle of Grochów again to battle before the gates of Warsaw, in the subject, the Polish defenders. Although government and parliament led another short shadowy existence outside Warsaw, and parts of the rebels were still fighting until October before they laid down their arms on Prussian territory, but it was with the case of the surrender of Warsaw Praga and all hope is lost. Only in the 19th century Prague was amalgamated with several other eastern suburbs to a district of Warsaw.

Battle of Praga 1794

In 1794 the then easternmost suburb of Warsaw was the scene of the Battle of Prague ( also known as the Battle of Warsaw in 1794, or the massacre of Praga ), a brutal mass murder of the people after the defeat of Poland in the battle of Maciejowice during the Kościuszko Uprising by Russian troops. This was, in their view retaliation for the almost complete destruction of the Russian garrison during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794, in which about 4,000 Russian soldiers were killed. After the attack, the Russians and the subsequent heavy defeat of the Polish insurgents came after the surrender of the capital looting and pillaging, and ultimately to the murder of more than 20,000 residents of Praga. For the capture of Warsaw on this eastern district of General Alexander Suvorov was named the Grand Marshal for the Empress Catherine.

Battle of Praga 1831

In the November Uprising of 1830 Praga was on 6 and 7 September 1831 once again the scene of a battle. Praga was defended in the defense of Warsaw by General Henryk Dembiński of Jan Pawel Lelewel against the Russian forces under Field Marshal Count Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich ( 1782-1856 ). The Poles had on September 8, 1831 again against the overwhelming Russian superiority capitulate, which subsequently invaded Warsaw. The revolutionary army was completely scattered the survivors fled abroad where they sometimes played an important role in the revolutionary movements of Western Europe. Paskevich, charged by the Emperor to the Prince of Warsaw and appointed governor of Poland, the Russification of the country began. He performed on February 26, 1832 Organic Statute, which united Poland and Russia.