Western Borderlands

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Post World War II Potsdam Agreement (1945) Polish–Soviet border agreement (1945) Treaty of Zgorzelec (1950) Polish-Soviet Border Adjustment Treaty (1951) Polish-Czechoslovak Border Treaty (1958) Polish-East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968) Treaty of Warsaw (1970) Polish-Czechoslovak Border Adjustment (1976) Polish-East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989) German-Polish Border Treaty (1990) Two Plus Four Treaty (1991) Treaty of Good Neighbourship (1991) Poland–Slovakia Border Adjustment (2005) Polish-Danish Maritime Boundary Delimitation Agreement (2018)
Areas Remnants of Polish statehood during partitions: Congress Poland/Vistula Land Galician autonomy Kresy Wschodnie ("Eastern Borderlands") Taken Lands (remainder of Russian partition of Poland) Wileńszczyzna Grodzieńszczyzna Lwów Land Areas of Galicia and Lodomeria east of river San Kresy Zachodnie ("Western Borderlands") 1815-1918 used as synonymous with entire Prussian partition of Poland 1918-1945 used in altered meaning regions unsuccessfully claimed from Germany by interwar Poland, in particular Hither Pomerania (Lands of Schlawe and Stolp ) Zaolzie After 1945, the Lausitz, raised typically only until early 1970s as counterclaims to retaliate for West German calls for revision of Oder–Neisse line .
Demarcation lines Greater Poland military demarcation line (1919-1920) Cieszyn Silesia demarcation line (1918-1920) Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line (1919-1920) Curzon Line (1920) Upper Silesia demarcation line (1921-1922) Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line (1923-1938) Oder–Neisse line (1945–1951)
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Western Borderlands (Polish: Kresy Zachodnie, Polish pronunciation: [ˈkrɛsɨ zaˈxɔdɲɛ]) is a term used to refer to the western parts of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that in the partitions were annexed by Prussia. This name refers specifically to the regions of Eastern Pomerania, Greater Poland, Warmia, and occasionally Upper Silesia.

This term, styled after

Jan Chryzostom Zachariasiewicz in his novel Na kresach published in 1860, but it did not enter common usage.^[1]

The 19th century history of these regions was quite different from the rest of the former Commonwealth. There were uprisings in 1806, 1846, and 1848 but the main battle between the Polish majority and large German minority was for economic domination in these provinces.

After

Greater Poland and Silesian Uprisings and decisions by the victorious Allies.^[2]

During the interwar period

Eastern Borderlands to become part of the new state than in fighting for the western Kresy Zachodnie. Following the end of World War II the region continued as part of Poland.^[3]

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[cejsh.icm.edu.pl › cejsh › element › Bronislaw_Pasierb_ang REGARDING THE LEGENDARY STATUS OF WILNO AND LWÓW]

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