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Poland has never had any formal colonial territories, but over its history the acquisition of such territories has at times been contemplated, though never attempted.The closest Poland came to acquiring such territories was indirectly through the actions of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, was founded in 1558 and postal markings were first introduced in 1764. The three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795 saw the independent nation of Poland disappear. The postal services in the areas occupied by Germany and Austria were absorbed into those countries' postal services.
Poland, [d] officially the Republic of Poland, [e] is a country in Central Europe.It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia [f] to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
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The territory became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century, under its first historic ruler Mieszko I.The Kashubian village of Hel was first mentioned in 1198 as a centre of herring trade area named Gellen.
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Poland's fate was heavily discussed at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. Joseph Stalin, whose Red Army occupied the entire country, presented several alternatives which granted Poland industrialized territories in the west whilst the Red Army simultaneously permanently annexed Polish territories in the east, resulting in Poland losing over 20% of its pre-war borders.
Polska Nowa Wieś [ˈpɔlska ˈnɔva ˈvjɛɕ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Komprachcice, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland. [1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-west of Komprachcice and 11 km (6.8 mi) west of the regional capital Opole .