Square in Wroclaw named after Georgian officers of Polish Army

The Polish city of Wroclaw is now home to a square named after Georgian officers of the Polish Army, reports the Georgian Ambassador to Poland Ilia Darchiashvili.

This is not the first square named after a Georgian officer. There is a square named after Georgian Junker and Officer, Giorgi Turashvili in the Polish city of Krakow, which  was opened in 2018.

Georgian officers served in the Polish Army in the 20th century.

In the summer of 1921, the chairman of the Georgian Committee in Warsaw, Sergo Kurulishvii, addresses the Polish Minister of Military Affairs, Generał Kazimierz Sosnkowski, with a proposal to accept Georgians into Polish military schools.

The first group of Georgian Junkers were admitted to the Cadet School in Warsaw in December 1921.

After the Soviet invasion of Georgia, some Georgian cadets emigrated and continued their military service in the French and Greek armies, however, most of them served in the Polish army.