Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic

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The Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic were the multiethnic eastern territories of interwar Poland, encompassing parts of present-day Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine, and serving as a major arena of political, military, and cultural conflict.

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region ⓘ
multiethnic territory ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Kresy ⓘ
Kresy Wschodnie ⓘ
linked to: Kresy
annexationDate 1939 ⓘ
annexationEvent Soviet invasion of Poland ⓘ
annexedBy Soviet Union ⓘ
borderedBy Republic of Lithuania ⓘ
linked to: Lithuania

Second Czechoslovak Republic ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
country Second Polish Republic ⓘ
culturalSignificance site of multiethnic coexistence and conflict ⓘ
symbol of Polish eastern heritage ⓘ
endTime 1939 ⓘ
ethnicGroup Belarusians ⓘ
Jews ⓘ
Lithuanians ⓘ
Poles ⓘ
Russians ⓘ
Ukrainians ⓘ
historicalPeriod interwar period ⓘ
includesTerritoryOf present-day Belarus ⓘ
present-day Lithuania ⓘ
present-day Ukraine ⓘ
languageUsed Belarusian ⓘ
Polish ⓘ
Russian ⓘ
Ukrainian ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ
locatedIn Eastern Europe ⓘ
interwar Poland ⓘ
majorCity Grodno ⓘ
linked to: Hrodna

Lwów ⓘ
Nowogródek ⓘ
Stanisławów ⓘ
Tarnopol ⓘ
Vilnius ⓘ
partOf Second Polish Republic ⓘ
post1945Status incorporated into Byelorussian SSR ⓘ
incorporated into Lithuanian SSR ⓘ
incorporated into Ukrainian SSR ⓘ
religion Eastern Orthodoxy ⓘ
Greek Catholicism ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
startTime 1918 ⓘ
wasSceneOf Polish–Lithuanian conflict ⓘ
Polish–Soviet War ⓘ
Polish–Ukrainian conflict ⓘ
interwar national minority conflicts ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

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

Lucjan Żeligowski → regionOfActivity → Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic ⓘ
subject linked to: General Lucjan Żeligowski
Volhynia massacres → historicalRegion → Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic ⓘ
Curzon Line → historicalRegion → Eastern Borderlands (Kresy) ⓘ
linked to: Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic