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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Oder-Neisse line - History of the line

Before World War II, Poland's western border with Germany had been fixed under terms of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. It generally ran along the historic borders of Great Poland, but with certain adjustments that were intended to reasonably reflect the ethnic compositions of small areas beyond the traditional provincial borders. However, eastern Pomerania, Upper Silesia and Masuria had been divided, leaving large areas populated by rural Slavic populations on the German side and large German urban populations on the Polish side. Moreover ...

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Oder-Neisse line, Oder-Neisse line - History of the line, Oder-Neisse line - Allies decide Polish border, Oder-Neisse line - Recognition of the border by Germany

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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Nicolaus Copernicus - Biography

Copernicus was born in 1473 at Toruń (Thorn) in a Polish province of Royal Prussia. His father Nikolas, a citizen of Cracow (Kraków), then capital of Poland, had moved to Toruń in 1460 once the war with the Teutonic Knights was concluded, and had become a respected citizen of that city. Copernicus was ten, when his father, a wealthy businessman and copper trader, died. Little is known of his mother, Barbara Watzenrode, who appears to have predeceased her husband. Copernicus' maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode, a church canon and later Princ ...

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Nicolaus Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus - Biography, Nicolaus Copernicus - The Copernican heliocentric system, Nicolaus Copernicus - Earlier theories, Nicolaus Copernicus - The Ptolemaic system, Nicolaus Copernicus - Copernican theory, Nicolaus Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Nicolaus Copernicus - Copernicus and Copernicanism, Nicolaus Copernicus - Quotes, Nicolaus Copernicus - Grave

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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Masuria - Landscape

Masuria and the Masurian Lakeland are known in Polish as Kraina Tysiąca Jezior, and in German as Land der Tausend Seen, meaning "land of a thousand lakes." These lakes were ground out of the land by glaciers during the Pleistocene ice age, when ice covered northeastern Europe. By 10,000 BC this ice started to melt. Great geological changes took place and even in the last 500 years the maps showing the lagoons and peninsulas on the Baltic Sea have greatly altered in appearance. As in other parts of northern Poland, such as from Pomerania on the Oder river to the Vistula river, this continuous stretc ...

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Masuria, Masuria - History, Masuria - Old Prussians, Masuria - Polish sovereignty, Masuria - Kingdom of Prussia, Masuria - Nazi Germany, Masuria - Polish Masuria, Masuria - Landscape, Masuria - Main cities, Masuria - Notes

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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Kaliningrad Oblast - Demographics

Kaliningrad Oblast - 2002. According to the All-Russian Census (2002), the population of the region is 955,300; 78% urban, 22% rural. The Kaliningrad Oblast is the fourth most densely populated oblast in the Russian Federation (62.5 persons per sq.km). 97 nationalities and ethnic groups live in the region, including Russians - 78.1%, Byelorussians - 7.7%, Ukrainians - 7.6%, Lithuanians - 1. ...

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Kaliningrad Oblast, Kaliningrad Oblast - Politics, Kaliningrad Oblast - History, Kaliningrad Oblast - Prussian people, Kaliningrad Oblast - Teutonic Order State, Kaliningrad Oblast - East Prussia, Kaliningrad Oblast - Kaliningrad Oblast, Kaliningrad Oblast - Geography, Kaliningrad Oblast - Time zone, Kaliningrad Oblast - Administrative divisions, Kaliningrad Oblast - Districts, Kaliningrad Oblast - Cities and towns, Kaliningrad Oblast - Demographics, Kaliningrad Oblast - 2002, Kaliningrad Oblast - Symbols

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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Kaliningrad Oblast - Administrative divisions

Kaliningrad Oblast - Districts. Kaliningrad Oblast consists of the following districts (районы): Bagrationovsky (Багратионовский) Chernyakhovsky (Черняховский) Guryevsky (Гурьевский) Gusevsky (Гусевский) Gvardeysky (Гвардейский) Krasnoznamensky (Краснознаменский) Nemansky (Неманский) Nesterovsky (Нестеровский) Ozersky (Оз� ...

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Kaliningrad Oblast, Kaliningrad Oblast - Politics, Kaliningrad Oblast - History, Kaliningrad Oblast - Prussian people, Kaliningrad Oblast - Teutonic Order State, Kaliningrad Oblast - East Prussia, Kaliningrad Oblast - Kaliningrad Oblast, Kaliningrad Oblast - Administrative divisions, Kaliningrad Oblast - Districts, Kaliningrad Oblast - Cities and towns, Kaliningrad Oblast - Demographics, Kaliningrad Oblast - 2002, Kaliningrad Oblast - Symbols

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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Historical Eastern Germany - Usage

The news media in the non-German speaking world have continued to use the term "(former) East Germany" to describe the five states that make up the old GDR region of the reunited Germany. They have done this because of the need to have a short label which their viewers and readers understand when describing the economic and social problem which have beset the region since 1990. Some Germans, often from families expelled from eastern territories of Germany, use the term "eastern Germany" or "east Germany" to refer the area east of Berl ...

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Historical Eastern Germany, Historical Eastern Germany - History, Historical Eastern Germany - Post World War II politics, Historical Eastern Germany - Usage, Historical Eastern Germany - External link

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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Historical Eastern Germany - Post World War II politics

Since 1945, referring to lands over which there was a transfer of jurisdiction as "east Germany" has had political connotations, which means that any article which discusses this issue is likely to be contentious. The contention has been somewhat dissipated over the last twenty years by three related phenomena: The passage of time means that there are fewer and fewer people alive who have firsthand experience of these regions under German jurisdiction. Until the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany, th ...

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Historical Eastern Germany, Historical Eastern Germany - History, Historical Eastern Germany - Post World War II politics, Historical Eastern Germany - Usage, Historical Eastern Germany - External link

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Warmia: Encyclopedia II - Oder-Neisse line - Recognition of the border by Germany

The governments of East Germany and Poland signed the Treaty of Zgorzelec in 1950, recognizing the Oder-Neisse line, officially designated the "Border of Peace and Friendship". In another treaty signed in 1989 between Poland and East Germany, the sea border was set. In 1952, recognition of the Oder-Neisse line as a permanent boundary was one of Stalin's conditions for the Soviet Union to agree to a reunified Germany. The offer wa ...

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Oder-Neisse line, Oder-Neisse line - History of the line, Oder-Neisse line - Allies decide Polish border, Oder-Neisse line - Recognition of the border by Germany

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