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The Second Polish Republic was mainly flat with an average elevation of 233 m (764 ft) above sea level, except for the southernmost Carpathian Mountains (after the Second World War and its border changes, the average elevation of Poland decreased to 173 m (568 ft)). Only 13% of territory, along the southern border, was higher than 300 m (980 ft).
Polish voivodeships, 1922–1939. Administrative Map in 1939 showing April 1938 voivodship revisions and Slovak border changes. Subdivisions of the Second Polish Republic became an issue immediately after the creation of the Second Polish Republic in 1918. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth had been partitioned in the late 18th
The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (1999). Landau, Z. and Tomaszewski, J. The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 1985) Olszewski, A. K. An Outline of Polish Art and Architecture, 1890-1980 (Warsaw: Interpress 1989.) Roszkowski, Wojciech. Landowners in Poland, 1918-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
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. [121] The inter-war period heralded a new era of Polish politics. Whilst Polish political activists had faced heavy censorship in the ...
The Second Polish Republic (1918−1939) — modern history of Poland from the end of the World War I to the beginning of the World War II ...
Unification of the Polish Army Day, Pilsudski in the Wawel Castle. In 1921–1939, the Polish armed forces consisted of the army and navy. The army consisted of main weapons: infantry, cavalry (from 1924 - cavalry) and artillery, technical weapons: sappers, communication and car troops and armored weapons, auxiliary weapons: gendarmerie and rolling stock.
Walasek, Stefania (2021). "Szkolnictwo dla mniejszości narodowych w II Rzeczpospolitej na przykładzie kuratoriów okręgów szkolnych: lwowskiego i wileńskiego" [Education for national minorities in the Second Polish Republic on the example of school boards of school districts: Lviv and Vilnius]. Przegląd Historyczno-Oświatowy. 64 (3– 4).
Since the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), Sejm has referred only to the lower house of parliament. During the existence of the Polish People's Republic, the Sejm, then a unicameral parliament, was the supreme organ of state power in the country.