Second Polish Republic

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The Second Polish Republic was the independent Polish state that existed between World War I and World War II, ultimately destroyed by the joint German and Soviet invasion in 1939.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical country
sovereign state
alliance Franco-Polish alliance
Polish–Romanian alliance
alsoKnownAs Second Polish Republic
surface form: Interwar Poland

Second Polish Republic
surface form: Second Republic of Poland
area approximately 388,000 square kilometres
borderedBy Czechoslovakia
Free City of Danzig
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Romania
Soviet Union
capital Warsaw
constitution April Constitution of 1935
March Constitution of 1921
continent Europe
conventionalLongName Poland
surface form: Republic of Poland
country Poland
currency Polish złoty
dissolutionCause Invasion of Poland
surface form: German invasion of Poland

Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet invasion of Poland
endTime 1939-09-28
ethnicGroup Belarusians
Germans
Jews
Poles
Ukrainians
event May Coup of 1926
Polish–Soviet War
firstPresident Gabriel Narutowicz
firstPrimeMinister Jędrzej Moraczewski
followedBy German occupation of Poland
Polish government-in-exile
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
governmentType parliamentary republic
hadPort Gdynia
hadPortAccess Baltic Sea
headOfGovernmentTitle Prime Minister of Poland
headOfStateTitle President of Poland
legislature Sejm
locatedIn Central Europe
majorCity Kraków
Lwów
Poznań
Wilno
Łódź
nativeName Poland
surface form: Rzeczpospolita Polska
notableLeader Ignacy Mościcki
Józef Piłsudski
officialLanguage Polish
population approximately 32,000,000 (1931)
populationCensusYear 1931
precededBy Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austro-Hungarian Empire

German Empire
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)
Russian Empire
previousCurrency Polish marka
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy

Judaism
Roman Catholicism
startTime 1918-11-11
upperHouse Senate of Poland

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Battle of the Border belligerent Second Polish Republic
Polska Krajowa Kasa Pożyczkowa jurisdiction Second Polish Republic
Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" country Second Polish Republic
Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" operatedIn Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: interwar Poland
Polish presidential election, 1922 country Second Polish Republic
Elżbieta Narutowicz residence Second Polish Republic
Lwów Uprising (1944) countryAtTime Second Polish Republic
Eastern Poland partOf Second Polish Republic
Lwów Voivodeship country Second Polish Republic
Lwów Voivodeship partOf Second Polish Republic
Lwów Voivodeship partOf Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Poland between the wars
Wilno Voivodeship country Second Polish Republic
Wilno Voivodeship partOf Second Polish Republic
Home Army offensive operations in Vilnius region country Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Second Polish Republic (prewar territory)
Lodz Ghetto Jews countryAtTheTime Second Polish Republic
subject surface form: Łódź Ghetto Jews
Volhynian Voivodeship country Second Polish Republic
Volhynian Voivodeship partOf Second Polish Republic
Volhynian Voivodeship locatedInEasternPartOf Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Poland (interwar)
Wartheland annexedFrom Second Polish Republic
Henryk Sucharski allegiance Second Polish Republic
Silesia historicallyRuledBy Second Polish Republic
Jadwiga Piłsudska nationalityAtBirth Second Polish Republic
Polish–Ukrainian War conflictBetween Second Polish Republic
Reichsgau Wartheland precededBy Second Polish Republic
Polesie Voivodeship country Second Polish Republic
Polesie Voivodeship partOf Second Polish Republic
Kresy country Second Polish Republic
Kresy partOf Second Polish Republic
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) followedBy Second Polish Republic
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) followedBy Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Republic of Poland (1918–1939)
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) legalSuccessor Second Polish Republic
pre-war Polish State Police country Second Polish Republic
pre-war Polish State Police historicalContext Second Polish Republic
Russian Partition of Poland replacedBy Second Polish Republic
West Prussia successor Second Polish Republic
Ilkenau countryDuringNameUse Second Polish Republic
Leonid Kravchuk placeOfBirth Second Polish Republic
Mordechai Anielewicz countryOfCitizenship Second Polish Republic
Lwów School of Mathematics historicalCountry Second Polish Republic
Republic of Poland historicalPredecessor Second Polish Republic
Polish People’s Republic precededBy Second Polish Republic
Brest-Litovsk formerCountry Second Polish Republic
Volhynia partOf Second Polish Republic
Western Belarus wasIncorporatedInto Second Polish Republic
Western Belarus prewarState Second Polish Republic
Hel hasFormerSovereign Second Polish Republic
Vice Prime Minister of Poland inception Second Polish Republic