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The Polish part of the region, divided in 1975 to form three units: the Olsztyn Voivodeship, the Elbląg Voivodeship, and the Suwałki Voivodeship, has been reestablished as a single entity in 1999 under the name of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, whose borders correspond closely to those of southern East Prussia. Since 2004, Poland and Lithuania ...
Evacuation of East Prussia; Part of German evacuation from Central and Eastern Europe during World War II: East Prussia (red) was separated from Germany and Prussia proper (blue) by the Polish corridor in the inter-war era. The area, divided between the Soviet Union and Poland in 1945, is 340 km east of the present-day Polish–German border.
Restoration of Pomerelia to Poland meant the loss of Germany's territorial contiguousness to East Prussia making it an exclave. Most of the eastern territories with a predominantly or almost exclusively German population (East Brandenburg, East Prussia, Hither and Farther Pomerania, and the bulk of Silesia) remained with Germany
Poland's security committee decided in a meeting on Wednesday to move military units to the country's east due to the Wagner Group's presence in Belarus, state-run news agency PAP quoted its ...
The Kingdom of Prussia divided the former territories of the Commonwealth it obtained into the following: Netze District - from 1772 to 1793; New Silesia - from 1795 to 1807; New East Prussia - from 1795 to 1807; South Prussia - from 1793 to 1806; East Prussia - from 1773 to 1829; West Prussia - from 1773 to 1829; Over time the administrative ...
1920 map of Poland and the Baltic States showing the area of the East Prussian plebiscite.. The East Prussian plebiscite [1] [2] (German: Volksabstimmung in Ostpreußen), also known as the Allenstein and Marienwerder plebiscite [3] [4] [5] or Warmia, Masuria and Powiśle plebiscite [6] (Polish: Plebiscyt na Warmii, Mazurach i Powiślu), was a plebiscite for the self-determination of the ...
The ruins of the Schlobitten Palace at Słobity, Poland (formerly East Prussia) Wilhelm Hermann Alexander Fürst zu Dohna-Schlobitten (Alexander, Prince zu Dohna-Schlobitten; 11 December 1899 – 29 October 1997) was a German Junker, soldier, businessman and author.
In the part of East Prussia that was given to Poland and became the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship the modern Polish place names were determined by the Commission for the Determination of Place Names, which generally restored the pre-1938 place names, in the case of German-origin place names without a Polish alternative simply translating them ...