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Border conflicts between Poland and Czechoslovakia began in 1918 between the Second Polish Republic and First Czechoslovak Republic, both freshly created states. The conflicts centered on the disputed areas of Cieszyn Silesia , Orava Territory and Spiš .
Edvard Beneš, leader of the Czechoslovak government in exile Władysław Sikorski, leader of the Polish government in exile. Czechoslovak politicians Hodža and Jan Masaryk both wanted a confederation, [6] Beneš was more lukewarm; his goal was to ensure that the disputed Trans-Olza territory that had passed to Poland in the aftermath of the Munich Agreement was regained by Czechoslovakia, [2 ...
The Republic of Poland and Czechoslovakia established relations early in the interwar period, after both countries gained independence. Those relations were somewhat strained by the Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts over Trans-Olza and Cieszyn in the early 1920s and late 1930s ( see also Munich Agreement ).
Trans-Olza [1] (Polish: Zaolzie, [zaˈɔlʑɛ] ⓘ; Czech: Záolží, Záolší; German: Olsa-Gebiet), also known as Trans-Olza Silesia (Polish: Śląsk Zaolziański), is a territory in the Czech Republic which was disputed between Poland and Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period. Its name comes from the Olza River.
Linguistic map of Czechoslovakia in 1930. ... Poland occupied Zaolzie, an area whose population was majority Polish, in October 1938. On 14 March 1939, ...
Since 1920 it has been divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic. It covers an area of about 2,280 square kilometres (880 sq mi) and has about 810,000 inhabitants, of which 1,002 square kilometres (387 sq mi) (44%) is in Poland, while 1,280 square kilometres (494 sq mi) (56%) is in the Czech Republic.
The Polish-Czech border can also be called the border existing for several months in 1939. On 16 March 1939, the German Reich, after Slovakia declared independence (in fact it client state of Nazi Germany), created from the occupied territories of Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia, which were not directly attached to Germany as the Sudetenland or to Poland as Trans-Olza, Protectorate of ...
Polish invasion of Czechoslovakia can refer to: The annexation of parts of modern Czech territory by Poland in 1938 The Polish participation in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968