Czerniaków is a neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and the river itself.
Czerniaków | |
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 Bernardine church and monastery in Czerniaków | |
| Coordinates: 52°12′27″N 21°03′04″E / 52.207383°N 21.051089°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| County/City | Warsaw |
| Notable landmarks | Bernardine Monastery and St. Antony of Padua Church, 19th century wooden mansion, Mound of the Warsaw Uprising |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +48 22 |
| Website | http://www.czerniakow.com/ |
Called Czerniakowo since the Middle Ages, it was then merely a small village located well to the south of Warsaw's Old Town. In the 19th century the area became densely built-up and became populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of society, which gave birth to a specific local version of the Warsaw dialect. During the Warsaw Uprising the area was one of the last Polish strongholds.
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