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Galicia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə / gə-LISH-(ee-)ə; [1] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye; see below) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
These actions were introduced specifically to encourage Polish emigration from Ukraine to Poland. [ citation needed ] In January 1945, the NKVD arrested 772 Poles in Lviv (where, according to Soviet sources, on 1 October 1944, Poles represented 66.75% of population), [ 38 ] among them 14 professors, 6 doctors, 2 engineers, 3 artists, and 5 ...
(Transborder regions = *) Northern & Western Poland. Central European Plain* (Nizina Środkowoeuropejska) Silesia* Pomerania* Southern Poland. Bohemian Massif* (Masyw Czeski) Polish Highlands (Wyżyny Polskie) Sandomierz Basin (Kotlina Sandomierska) Subcarpathia* Western Subcarpathia * (Podkarpacie Zachodnie)
Polesia, also called Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye, [a] is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the bigger East European Plain, including part of eastern Poland and the Belarus–Ukraine border region. [2] This region should not be confused with parts of Russia also traditionally called "Polesie".
The Poland–Russia border is 232 km long between Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, which is an exclave, unconnected to the rest of Russia due to the Lithuania–Russia border. [12] For most of this length, the Polish side is in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ; the extreme east is in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , and the westernmost ...
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.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union into a number of post-Soviet states transformed the Poland-Soviet border into the chain of Poland-Russia, Poland-Lithuania, Poland-Belarus and Poland–Ukraine borders. [10] Poland and Ukraine have confirmed the border on 18 May 1992. [11] It is the longest of Polish eastern borders. [12]
Poland's current voivodeships (provinces) are largely based on the country's historic regions, whereas those of the past two decades (to 1998) had been centred on and named for individual cities. The new units range in area from less than 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi) for Opole Voivodeship to more than 35,000 square kilometres (14,000 ...