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The Germany–Poland border (German: Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Polen, Polish: Granica polsko-niemiecka) is the state border between Poland and Germany, mostly along the Oder–Neisse line, with a total length of 467 km (290 mi). [1] It stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Czech Republic in the south.
The German-Polish Border Treaty, signed 14 November 1990, finalizing the Oder–Neisse line as the Polish-German border [88] came into force on 16 January 1992, together with a second one, a Treaty of Good Neighbourship, signed in June 1991, in which the two countries, among other things, recognized basic political and cultural rights for both ...
The borders of Poland resembled the borders of the German-Russian gains in World War 2, with the exception of the city of Bialystok. This is called the Curzon line. The small area of Trans-Olza , which had been annexed by Poland in late 1938, was returned to Czechoslovakia on Stalin's orders.
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]
In the 1560s, Poland has expanded its Baltic dominion during the Livonian War, when it captured most of Livonia, with the major port city of Riga (Polish: Ryga). In 1561, the Livonian Confederation was dismantled and the Livonian Order , an order of German knights, was disbanded.
In present-day Germany, the former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer to those territories east of the current eastern border of Germany, i.e. the Oder–Neisse line, which historically had been considered German and which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II.
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) long. [ 2 ] The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian ...
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