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Olsztyn

American  
[awl-shtin] / ˈɔl ʃtɪn /

noun

  1. a city in northeastern Poland.


Olsztyn British  
/ ˈɔlʃtin /

noun

  1. a town in NE Poland: founded in 1334 by the Teutonic Knights; communications centre. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)

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At 10:30 p.m., 16-year-old refugee Anya Vasylyk nervously checks the schedule for a train that will take her mother and grandmother to the northern Polish town of Olsztyn.

From Reuters ● Mar. 20, 2022

But in the northern Polish city of Olsztyn, just south of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Bozena Szymanowska said Ukrainian refugees had stayed away.

From Reuters ● Mar. 12, 2022

Artur Sobiela, a friend from Skrzypski's hometown of Olsztyn in Poland's northeast, said Skrzypski had traveled to Indonesia numerous times and has many friends there but "isn't on any side of Indonesian-Papua conflict."

From Fox News ● Sep. 24, 2018

Artur Sobiela, a friend from Skrzypski’s hometown of Olsztyn in Poland’s northeast, said Skrzypski had traveled to Indonesia numerous times and has many friends there but “isn’t on any side of Indonesian-Papua conflict.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2018

"Ten years ago there was no connection with organised crime," said Piotr Chlebowicz, a criminologist at Warmisko-Mazurski University in Olsztyn.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2011

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