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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Aleksander Skrzyński headOfGovernmentOf Second Polish Republic
Zadwórze belligerent Second Polish Republic
subject surface form: Battle of Zadwórze
Zadwórze historicalCountry Second Polish Republic
Kłodzko hasHistoricalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Second Polish Republic (after World War II as part of Poland)
Horokhiv historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Nidzica historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Pasłęk historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Prabuty historicallyRuledBy Second Polish Republic
Orneta historicallyRuledBy Second Polish Republic
Wielbark historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Jeziorany historicAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Dobre Miasto historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
General Lucjan Żeligowski politicalAlignment Second Polish Republic
subject surface form: Lucjan Żeligowski
BIP countryDuringActivity Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Second Polish Republic (in exile structures)
Kost Levytsky areaOfActivity Second Polish Republic
Józef Beck memberOf Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Second Polish Republic government
Władysław Bartoszewski placeOfBirth Second Polish Republic
Voivode of Nowogródek country Second Polish Republic
Przemyśl wasPartOf Second Polish Republic
Voivode of Pomerania country Second Polish Republic
Voivode of Pomerania country Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)
Voivode of Kraków country Second Polish Republic
Voivode of Kraków country Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Republic of Poland (1918–1939)
Chojnice wasPartOf Second Polish Republic
Polish High Command country Second Polish Republic
Polish High Command era Second Polish Republic
Polish Corridor country Second Polish Republic
Polish Corridor partOf Second Polish Republic
Battle of Tuchola Forest involvedNation Second Polish Republic
Soviet Polikarpov I-16 usedBy Second Polish Republic
subject surface form: Polikarpov I-16
this entity surface form: Second Polish Republic (captured examples)
Marienwerder wasPartOf Second Polish Republic
Rivne wasPartOfState Second Polish Republic
Congress Kingdom successor Second Polish Republic
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast historicallyPartOf Second Polish Republic
Prussian Partition of Poland followedBy Second Polish Republic
Rivne Oblast hasHistoricalPeriod Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Second Polish Republic era
Chorzów historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Graudenz cededTo Second Polish Republic
Tęcza hasCulturalContext Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: interwar Poland
Ignacy Daszyński placeOfDeath Second Polish Republic
bitwa pod Kutnem stronaKonfliktu Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: II Rzeczpospolita Polska
Grupa Operacyjna „Koło” country Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: II Rzeczpospolita Polska
Grupa Operacyjna „Kutno” country Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: II Rzeczpospolita Polska