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On May 20, 1945, in Trstena an agreement for a return to the 1938 borders of Poland was signed and the following day the Czechoslovak border guards moved to the old Czechoslovak border. At several places there were fights between Polish and Czechoslovak militias, but the situation calmed with the arrival of Polish troops on July 17, 1945. [ 131 ]
But from 1947, Poland's territory was reduced to 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 square miles), so the country lost 73,739 square kilometres (28,471 square miles) of land. This difference amounts almost to the size of the Czech Republic, although Poland ended up with a much longer coastline on the Baltic Sea compared to its 1939 borders.
Polish nationalist propaganda from the 1930s: "Nie jestesmy tu od wczoraj.Sięgaliśmy daleko na zachód." (We are not here since yesterday. Once we reached far west.) The term "Recovered Territories" was officially used for the first time in the Decree of the President of the Republic of 11 October 1938 after the annexation of Trans-Olza by the Polish army. [7]
Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-135-92694-6. "Poland". Political Chronology of Europe. Europa Publications. 2003. pp. 183– 191. ISBN 978-1-135-35687-3. Harold B. Segel (2003). "Chronology of Major Political Events, 1944-2002: Poland". Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 ...
Poland's old and new borders, 1945 (Kresy in gray) Borders of Poland with length (NB: The illustrated Polish coastline is 770 km, while the borders at sea is 440 km combined). Neuwarper See (Jezioro Nowowarpieńskie), a lake divided by a border between Poland and Germany. The Borders of Poland are 3,511 km (2,182 mi) [1] or 3,582 km (2,226 mi ...
Between March and August 1939, Poland also shared a border with the then-Hungarian governorate of Subcarpathia. In 1938, the Second Republic was the sixth largest country in Europe. According to the 1921 census, the number of inhabitants was 25.7 million. By 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, this had grown to an estimated 35.1 ...
1939 September 23 — The German-Soviet border in occupied Poland is finalized with the German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty. 1939 September 26 — The Free City of Danzig and a large portion of Poland are annexed into Germany. The remainder of the territory occupied by Germany is reorganized under the General Government.
Landowners in Poland, 1918-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1991) Roszkowski, Wojciech. "Large Estates and Small Farms in the Polish Agrarian Economy between the Wars (1918-1939)," Journal of European Economic History (1987) 16#1 pp 75–88; Taylor, J. J. The Economic Development of Poland, 1919-1950 (Cornell University Press 1952)