Wrocław

American

[vrawts-lahf] / ˈvrɔts lɑf /

noun

a province in SW Poland.
a city in and the capital of this province, on the Oder River: formerly in Germany.

Wrocław British

/ ˈvrɔtswaf /

noun

German name: Breslau. an industrial city in SW Poland, on the River Oder: passed to Austria (1527) and to Prussia (1741); returned to Poland in 1945. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)

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Breslau, where Germans outnumbered Poles 10 to 1 before 1945, became Polish Wrocław.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Mr Turski studied history at the University of Wrocław, during which time he took up journalism and worked in political communications.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

Television footage showed several hundred, mostly young people waiting in a long line at one polling station in the western city of Wrocław to vote.

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2023

Adam Mrozowicki, a sociologist at the University of Wrocław, described the protests to the Guardian as "decentralized, locally based, grassroots. And personally, in 20 years, I've never seen anything like these numbers."

From Salon • Dec. 12, 2020

“It certainly feels different,” said Adam Mrozowicki, a sociologist at the University of Wrocław.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2020

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