Curzon Line

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The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between Poland and Soviet Russia after World War I that later served as the basis for the post–World War II eastern border of Poland.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Curzon Line canonical 2
Curzon Line A 1
Curzon Line B 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf demarcation line
international border proposal
alternativeName Curzon boundary
approximateTo modern Poland–Belarus border
modern Poland–Lithuania border in part
modern Poland–Ukraine border
basedOn ethnic distribution of populations
basisFor Poland–Soviet Union border after World War II
consideredBy Allied powers after World War I
follows ethnographic boundary between Poles and non‑Poles
hasVariant Curzon Line A
linked to: Curzon Line

Curzon Line B
linked to: Curzon Line
historicalRegion Eastern Borderlands (Kresy)
influenced post–World War II eastern border of Poland
languageOfName English
locatedIn Eastern Europe
namedAfter George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Lord Curzon
passesNear Białystok NERFINISHED
Brest
linked to: Brest (Belarus)

Grodno
linked to: Hrodna

Lwów (Lviv)
linked to: Lwów
politicallySignificantFor Belarus
Lithuania
Poland
Soviet Union
Ukraine
proposedBy Allied Supreme Council
British government
linked to: UK government
proposedDuring Paris Peace Conference
proposedIn 1919
recognizedDeFactoIn Potsdam Conference outcomes
Yalta Conference discussions
relatedToEvent Polish–Soviet War
Treaty of Riga
World War I
World War II
separates Poland
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR

Second Polish Republic
Soviet Russia
linked to: Soviet Union
subjectOf diplomatic correspondence in 1919–1920
territorial disputes between Poland and Soviet Russia
timePeriod 20th century
usedAsReferenceBy Soviet Union in 1939
Soviet Union in 1944

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Western Belarus wasDividedBy Curzon Line
Polish–Soviet border agreement of 1945 appliesToTerritory Curzon Line region
linked to: Curzon Line
Curzon Line hasVariant Curzon Line A
linked to: Curzon Line
Curzon Line hasVariant Curzon Line B
linked to: Curzon Line