Poland has created a new national holiday to celebrate a successful insurrection against German rule. The uprising took place in the wake of World War One, as Poland sought to re-establish itself as an independent state following over a century of partition between Germany, Russia and Austria.

The new “National Day of the Victorious Greater Poland Uprising” was signed into law by President Andrzej Duda yesterday and will take place annually on 27 December.

On that date in 1918, the uprising broke out in the Greater Poland region, which had been under German rule. By mid-January 1919, Polish forces had taken control of most of the province and in June it was recognised as part of the newly independent Poland in the Treaty of Versailles.

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