Polica (mountain)

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Polica, locally known as Police, is a mountain, {{convert|1369|m|ft|abbr=on}}, in southern Poland near Zawoja, in the Żywiec Beskids mountain range.{{cite web|url=https://peakvisor.com/peak/polica.html |title=Polica Mountain on PeakVisor}}

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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Category:Mountains of Poland

Category:Landforms of Lesser Poland Voivodeship

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