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Western Belorussia or Western Belarus (Belarusian: Заходняя Беларусь, romanized: Zachodniaja Biełaruś; Polish: Zachodnia Białoruś; Russian: Западная Белоруссия, romanized: Zapadnaya Belorussiya) is a historical region of modern-day Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period.
Flag of the Republic of Poland A variety of Polish flags are defined in current Polish national law, either through an act of parliament or a ministerial ordinance. Apart from the national flag , these are mostly military flags, used by one or all branches of the Polish Armed Forces , especially the Polish Navy .
The state flag of the Republic of Poland is a rectangular piece of cloth in the colours of the Republic of Poland hoisted on a flagpole. The state flag of the Republic of Poland is also the flag specified in paragraph 1, with the coat of arms of the Republic of Poland placed in the middle of the white stripe. [2]
State flag Civil flag Voivodeship English name Polish name Design Holy Cross: Holy Cross Świętokrzyskie: Horizontal tricolor of blue, white and red with a yellow stripe along the hoist, emblazoned with the arms of the voivodeship in the white stripe Kuyavia-Pomerania: Kuyavia-Pomerania Kujawsko-Pomorskie: Horizontal tricolor of red, white and ...
The full official name of Poland is Rzeczpospolita Polska which loosely translates as "Republic of Poland". The word rzeczpospolita ("pospolita" - common and "rzecz" - an item signifying wealth, hence Commonwealth) has been used in Poland since at least the 16th century, originally a generic term to denote any state with a republican or similar ...
Republic of Belarus Use National flag and ensign Proportion 1:2 Adopted 25 December 1951 ; 73 years ago (1951-12-25) (Soviet version) 7 June 1995 ; 29 years ago (1995-06-07) (original design with a thinner ornament pattern) 10 February 2012 ; 13 years ago (2012-02-10) (current design with a thicker ornament pattern) Design A unequal horizontal bicolour of red over green in a 2:1 ratio, with a ...
A variant of the 1991–1995 flag of Belarus, used by pro-democracy protestors. A white-red-white flag with the Pahonia coat of arms in the centre. 2017–present: Flag of Veyshnoria, used as an element of satire. 2000s: Pro-Union State flag: Flag used by some Belarusian anarchists [3]
The Polish word kresy ("borderlands") is the plural form of the word kres meaning 'edge'. According to Zbigniew Gołąb, it is "a medieval borrowing from the German word Kreis", which in the Middle Ages meant Kreislinie, Umkreis, Landeskreis ("borderline, delineation or circumscribed territory"). [7]