Film Archive: Janowa Basalt Quarry

Janowa Dolina was a model settlement for workers of the Polish State Basalt Quarry in the 1920s and 1930s. As a proud example of the Second Republics modernization efforts it entered the newsreels of the time and came out on the Hungarian Filmhiradok Online in 2009. The settlement on the Czech border became the tragic scene of a mass murder within the Nazi Germany.

The text reads: How they make the cobbles? The Janowa Basalt Quarry in Poland produces the durable cobbles with an interesting and quick new procedure.

A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland (1914)

This book was published just before the great war broke out. You can download the book in any e-book reader form or in pdf from archive.org and you can discover it with Google Maps that shows what places are mentioned or with Google Books: Austria-Hungary bank Bavaria Bohemia Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina Buda Budapest Cracow Croatia Croatia-Slavonia Croats crown Czartoryscy Czechs Dalmatia Danube Debreczen Esztergom Europe Hungary Italy language L Lithuania Little Poland Livonia Lower Austria Magyar Moldavia Moravia Karlowitz Podolia Poland Poles Prague Russia Ruthenes Ruthenians Salzburg Silesia Slav Slovenes Sopron Szeged Szekesfehervar Trieste Turkish Turks universal suffrage Upper Austria Vienna Vistula Walachia Warsaw

1938: Politcal Co-Operation in Visegrád

Visegrád has seen many Central European rulers and politicians since the 14th century. In 1938, before the Austria's Anschluss to Nazi Germany at the eve of war, it was a scene of a different kind of political meeting than the 1991 V4 forming.

On the newsreel of January 1998: Three Party Meeting. Winter Hunting. Hungary's governor has invited the representatives of friendly state [Austria and Italy].

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