Polica_(mountain)

Polica (mountain)

Polica (mountain)

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Polica, locally known as Police, is a mountain, 1,369 m (4,491 ft), in southern Poland near Zawoja, in the Żywiec Beskids mountain range.[1]

Polica (background, right)

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 crashed on the northern slope of Police on 2 April 1969. The accident spot is marked by a cross, erected in the 1990s.

Until 1918, Polica was on the border between Galicia and Hungary, and between 1918 and 1920 on the Polish-Czechoslovak border.

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    "Polica Mountain on PeakVisor".

49°38′N 19°38′E


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