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Historical geography of Poland

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Polish Corridor
Polish territory (1920–1939, 1945–)
Curzon Line
historical demarcation line between territories kept by post-WW2 Poland and territories given to the Soviet Union
Kingdom of Poland
Polish state from the coronation of the first King Bolesław I the Brave in 1025 to the union with Lithuania and the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty in 1385
Kresy
Eastern Borderlands (), often simply Borderlands (, ) was a historical region of the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The term was coined during the interwar period (1918–1939). Largely agricultural and extensively multi-ethnic with a Polish minority, it amounted to nearly half of the territory of interwar Poland. Historically situated in the eastern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, following the 18th-century foreign partitions it was divided between the Empires of Russia and Austria-Hungary, and ceded to Poland in 1921 after the Treaty of Riga. As a result of the post-World War II b
Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
1385–1795 territorial possessions of the King of Poland
Western Belorussia
historical region of Belarus
former eastern territories of Germany
eastern territories lost by Germany after World War I and then World War II
Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland
book by Filip Sulimierski
West Galicia
administrative unit of the Empire of Austria
Netze District
Territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, 1772–1807
Belostok Oblast
oblast of Russian Empire (1807-1842)
territorial evolution of Poland
aspect of Polish history
Bialystok-Grodno District
subdivision of the German Empire during the First World War
Okolica szlachecka