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6 days ago · The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire ...
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- Polish–Russian Wars
Armed conflicts between Poland (including the...
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Polish-Soviet, Latvian-Soviet and Lithuanian-Soviet Wars in...
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Following the armistice with Germany in November 1918,...
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3 days ago · Following the armistice with Germany in November 1918, Poland regained its independence as the Second Polish Republic. The Second Polish Republic reaffirmed its sovereignty after a series of military conflicts, most notably the Polish–Soviet War, when Poland inflicted a crushing defeat on the Red Army at the Battle of Warsaw.
3 days ago · Galicia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə / gə-LISH(-ee)-ə; Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish ...
2 days ago · The tradition of the Polish nobles’ republic militated against submission and engendered an attitude of revolutionary defiance. Country Facts. Capital, Population, Government... Beginning with the Kościuszko Insurrection, the Poles staged uprisings in 1806, 1830, 1846, 1848, and 1863 and a revolution in 1905.
5 days ago · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - The liberum veto and attempts at reform: Poland had emerged from the cataclysm of 1648–67 in a moribund state, though its skillful diplomacy had enabled it for a time to save appearances.
1 day ago · In the mid-1500s, united Poland was the largest state in Europe and perhaps the continent’s most powerful nation. Yet two and a half centuries later, during the Partitions of Poland (1772–1918), it disappeared, parceled out among the contending empires of Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
2 days ago · In March 1943, the OUN(B) (specifically Mykola Lebed) imposed a collective death sentence of all Poles living in the former east of the Second Polish Republic, and a few months later, local units of the UPA were instructed to complete the operation soon.
