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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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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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