Dobrzyń Land
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Dobrzyń Land (
History
The region became part of the emerging Polish state under duke
During the
Dobrzyń Land was annexed by Prussia during the Second Partition in 1793, and included within the newly formed province of South Prussia. It was administered with New East Prussia from 1795 onwards, until in 1807 it became part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw according to the Treaties of Tilsit. In 1815 however, following the duchy's dissolution, it was attached to so-called Congress Poland under the Russian Empire. After World War I, in 1918, Dobrzyń Land passed to the re-established independent Second Polish Republic. In 1920, Poland repulsed a Soviet invasion of the region.
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by Nazi Germany. During the occupation, the Polish population was subjected to various crimes, such as mass arrests, imprisonment, slave labor, kidnapping of children, deportations to Nazi concentration camps and extermination, incl. the Intelligenzaktion. Major sites of massacres of Poles in the region included Skrwilno, Rusinowo, Karnkowo and Rypin.[1] In 1945, the German occupation ended and the region was restored to Poland.
Miscellanea
The region has numerous lakes and descendants of
In
See also
- Ziemia
- Chełmno Land
- Kuyavia
References
External links
- Ziemia Dobrzyńska On-line (in Polish)