Aside from Tannenberg and to a much lesser extent the Second Battle of the
Masurian Lakes, attempts at encirclement failed.
Masuria is to Kruk a space in which subsequent generations of his ancestors have left their trace but the war and post-war policy erased the traces of the
Masurian autochthons' presence there.
In a similar way, The
Masurians refused merging with the "Catholic" Polish nation and choose German ethnicity in spite of their language;
About three hours ahead of the announcement of the winners, organisers said the list of finalists has been halved from 28 earlier to 14, which also included the Dead Sea, Halong Bay and Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the river Amazon, Jeju, Komodo, Iguazu Falls, Lebanon's Jeita Grotto, Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, Poland's
Masurian Lake District, the Puerto Princesa Underground River, the Sundurban mangrove forests of Bangladesh and India, and the Table Mountain.
Amazon, Latin America; Angel Falls, Venezuela; Bay of Fundy, Canada; Black Forest, Germany; Bu Tinah Shoals, United Arab Emirates; Cliffs of Moher, Ireland; Dead Sea, Palestine/Israel/Jordan; El Yunque, Puerto Rico; Galapagos Islands, Ecuador; Grand Canyon, United States; Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea/Australia; Halong Bay, Vietnam; Iguacu Falls, Brazil/Argentina; Jeita Grotto, Lebanon; Jeju Island, South Korea; Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Komodo National Park, Indonesia; Maldives, Maldives;
Masurian Lake District, Poland; Matterhorn/Cervino, Switzerland/Italy; Milford Sound, New Zealand; Mud Volcanoes, Azerbaijan; Puerto Princesa Underground River, Philippines; Sundarbans, India/Bangladesh; Table Mountain, South Africa; Uluru, Australia; Vesuvius, Italy; and Yushan, Taiwan.
Winners of the IMEX Wild Card 2009 contest are Novi Sad, Vojvodina in Serbia; The Cook Islands; Tianjin Economic, Technological Development Area (TEDA) in China; and
Masurian Conference Centre Zamek Ryn in Poland.
Biomass and production of Dreissena polymorpha (Pall.) in some
Masurian lakes.
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These hills are a series of terminal moraines from glaciation, and in the northeast of Poland they have blocked the natural water drainage, creating the
Masurian Lake District.
The berries are grown in the
Masurian lake-lands region of Poland and are rich nutrients known to have health benefits, such as high levels of folic acid, calcium and vitamins B and C.
In the east, Russia launched an immediate offensive, which was met by capable German generals, who wiped out a Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the
Masurian Lakes.