Faster access than browser!
50 relations: Adam Epler, Armoured train, Battle of Kobryń, Battle of Kock (1939), Battle of Mława, Battle of Wizna, Belarus, Bombardment, Brest Fortress, Brest, Belarus, Bug River, Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski, Defense of Brest Fortress, Franciszek Kleeberg, Galicia (Eastern Europe), German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk, Heinz Guderian, Independent Operational Group Narew, Invasion of Poland, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Kobryn, Konstanty Plisowski, Lesser Poland, Luftwaffe, Lviv, March battalion, Materiel, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Mukhavets River, Napoleon, Nazi Germany, Operation Barbarossa, Podlaska Cavalry Brigade, Polesia, Polesie Voivodeship, Polish Land Forces, Red Army, Renault FT, Romanian Bridgehead, Second Polish Republic, Semyon Krivoshein, Small arms, Soviet invasion of Poland, Vysokaye, Warsaw, Wehrmacht, 10th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), 20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 2nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht).
Adam Epler
Adam Jozef Aleksander Epler (born December 1, 1891, in Lwów, Austrian Galicia; died October 24, 1965, in London) was a Colonel of Artillery of the Polish Army, posthumously promoted to Generał brygady.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Adam Epler · See more »
Armoured train
An armoured train is a railway train protected with armour.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Armoured train · See more »
Battle of Kobryń
The Battle of Kobryń was one of the battles of the Invasion of Poland.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Battle of Kobryń · See more »
Battle of Kock (1939)
The Battle of Kock was the final battle in the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II in Europe.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Battle of Kock (1939) · See more »
Battle of Mława
The Battle of Mława, otherwise known as the Defence of the Mława position, took place to the north of the town of Mława in northern Poland between 1 and 3 September 1939.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Battle of Mława · See more »
Battle of Wizna
The Battle of Wizna was fought between September 7 and September 10, 1939, between the forces of Poland and Germany during the initial stages of invasion of Poland.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Battle of Wizna · See more »
Belarus
Belarus (Беларусь, Biełaruś,; Беларусь, Belarus'), officially the Republic of Belarus (Рэспубліка Беларусь; Республика Беларусь), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (Белоруссия, Byelorussiya), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Belarus · See more »
Bombardment
A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or towns and buildings.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Bombardment · See more »
Brest Fortress
Brest Fortress (Брэсцкая крэпасць,; Брестская крепость,; Twierdza brzeska), formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus, the former Byelorussian SSR.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Brest Fortress · See more »
Brest, Belarus
Brest (Брэст There is also the name "Berestye", but it is found only in the Old Russian language and Tarashkevich., Брест Brest, Берестя Berestia, בריסק Brisk), formerly Brest-Litoŭsk (Брэст-Лiтоўск) (Brest-on-the-Bug), is a city (population 340,141 in 2016) in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish city of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Brest, Belarus · See more »
Bug River
The Bug River (Bug or Western Bug; Західний Буг, Zakhidnyy Buh, Захо́дні Буг, Zakhodni Buh; Западный Буг, Zapadnyy Bug) is a major European river which flows through three countries with a total length of.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Bug River · See more »
Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski (1892–1944) was a Polish military officer and a brigadier general of the Polish Army.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski · See more »
Defense of Brest Fortress
The defence of Brest Fortress took place 22–29 June 1941.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Defense of Brest Fortress · See more »
Franciszek Kleeberg
Franciszek Kleeberg (1 February 1888, Tarnopol – 5 April 1941 near Dresden) was a Polish general.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Franciszek Kleeberg · See more »
Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia (Ukrainian and Галичина, Halyčyna; Galicja; Czech and Halič; Galizien; Galícia/Kaliz/Gácsország/Halics; Galiția/Halici; Галиция, Galicija; גאַליציע Galitsiye) is a historical and geographic region in Central Europe once a small Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia and later a crown land of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, that straddled the modern-day border between Poland and Ukraine.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Galicia (Eastern Europe) · See more »
German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk
German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (Deutsch-sowjetische Siegesparade in Brest-Litowsk, Совместный парад вермахта и РККА в Бресте) refers to an official ceremony held by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on September 22, 1939, during the invasion of Poland in the city of Brest-Litovsk (Brześć nad Bugiem or Brześć Litewski, then in the Second Polish Republic, now Brest in Belarus).
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk · See more »
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during the Nazi era.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Heinz Guderian · See more »
Independent Operational Group Narew
Independent Operational Group Narew (Samodzielna Grupa Operacyjna Narew, SGO Narew) was one of the Polish Army Corps (Operational Groups) that defended Poland during the Invasion of Poland in 1939.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Independent Operational Group Narew · See more »
Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign (Kampania wrześniowa) or the 1939 Defensive War (Wojna obronna 1939 roku), and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss ("Case White"), was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Invasion of Poland · See more »
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946), more commonly known as Joachim von Ribbentrop, was Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Joachim von Ribbentrop · See more »
Kobryn
Kobryn (Ко́брын; Кобрин; Кобринь; Kobryń; Kobrynas; קאברין) is a city in the Brest Region of Belarus and the center of the Kobryn District.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Kobryn · See more »
Konstanty Plisowski
Konstanty Plisowski of Odrowąż (June 8, 1890 – 1940) was a Polish general and military commander.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Konstanty Plisowski · See more »
Lesser Poland
Lesser Poland (Polish: Małopolska, Latin: Polonia Minor) is a historical region (dzielnica) of Poland; its capital is the city of Kraków.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Lesser Poland · See more »
Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Luftwaffe · See more »
Lviv
Lviv (Львів; Львов; Lwów; Lemberg; Leopolis; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Lviv · See more »
March battalion
A march battalion (Bataillon de Marche,, Battaglione di marcia or) is a military unit comprising replacement and support personnel, usually for a regiment or brigade-sized formation.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and March battalion · See more »
Materiel
Materiel, more commonly matériel in US English and also listed as the only spelling in some UK dictionaries (both pronounced, from French matériel meaning equipment or hardware), refers to military technology and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Materiel · See more »
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact,Charles Peters (2005), Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World, New York: PublicAffairs, Ch.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact · See more »
Mukhavets River
Mukhavets (Мухаве́ц (Muchaviec),, BGN/PCGN romanization: Mukhavyets) is a river in western Belarus, a tributary to the Bug River.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Mukhavets River · See more »
Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Napoleon · See more »
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Nazi Germany · See more »
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Operation Barbarossa · See more »
Podlaska Cavalry Brigade
The Podlaska Cavalry Brigade (Polish: Podlaska Brygada Kawalerii) was a military unit of the Polish Army, created on April 1, 1937.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Podlaska Cavalry Brigade · See more »
Polesia
Polesia, Polesie or Polesye (Палессе Paliessie, Полісся Polissia or Polisia, Polesie, Поле́сье Poles'e) is a natural and historical region starting from the farthest edges of Central Europe and into Eastern Europe, stretching from parts of Eastern Poland, touching similarly named Podlasie, straddling the Belarus–Ukraine border and into western Russia.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Polesia · See more »
Polesie Voivodeship
Polesie Voivodeship (województwo poleskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939).
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Polesie Voivodeship · See more »
Polish Land Forces
The Land Forces (Wojska Lądowe) are a military branch of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Polish Land Forces · See more »
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Red Army · See more »
Renault FT
The Renault FT (frequently referred to in post-World War I literature as the FT-17, FT17, or similar) was a French light tank that was among the most revolutionary and influential tank designs in history.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Renault FT · See more »
Romanian Bridgehead
The Romanian Bridgehead (Przedmoście rumuńskie) was an area in southeastern Poland, now located in Ukraine.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Romanian Bridgehead · See more »
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, commonly known as interwar Poland, refers to the country of Poland between the First and Second World Wars (1918–1939).
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Second Polish Republic · See more »
Semyon Krivoshein
Semyon Moiseevich Krivoshein (Семён Моисе́евич Кривоше́ин; November 28, 1899 in Voronezh, Russian Empire – September 16, 1978 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet tank commander, who played a vital part in the World War II reform of the Red Army tank forces and in the momentous clash between German and Soviet tanks in the Battle of Kursk.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Semyon Krivoshein · See more »
Small arms
Small arms include handguns (revolvers and pistols) and long guns, such as rifles, carbines, shotguns, submachine guns, assault rifles, personal defense weapons, and light machine guns.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Small arms · See more »
Soviet invasion of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a Soviet Union military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Soviet invasion of Poland · See more »
Vysokaye
Vysokaye (Высокае; Високе, Vysoke; Wysokie, Wysokie Litewskie; Высокое) is a town in Brest Voblast, Belarus.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Vysokaye · See more »
Warsaw
Warsaw (Warszawa; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Warsaw · See more »
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht (lit. "defence force")From wehren, "to defend" and Macht., "power, force".
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and Wehrmacht · See more »
10th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
The 10th Panzer Division was a formation of the German Army during World War II.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and 10th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) · See more »
20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The German 20th Infantry Division was an infantry division of Nazi Germany.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and 20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) · See more »
2nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 2nd Infantry Division of Nazi Germany's Army was created from components of the Reichswehr's old 2nd Division in 1934, at first under the cover name Wehrgauleitung Stettin and later Artillerieführer II; it did not take its real name until October 1935.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and 2nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) · See more »
3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
The 3rd Panzer Division (3rd Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Wehrmacht, during World War II.
New!!: Battle of Brześć Litewski and 3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) · See more »
Redirects here:
Battle of Brest-Litovsk, Battle of Brzesc, Battle of Brzesc Litewski, Battle of Brześć, Siege of Brest (1939).
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brześć_Litewski
