Curzon Line

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The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between Poland and Soviet Russia after World War I that later served as the basis for the post–World War II eastern border of Poland.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Curzon Line canonical 2
Curzon Line A 1
Curzon Line B 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf demarcation line
international border proposal
alternativeName Curzon boundary
approximateTo modern Poland–Belarus border
modern Poland–Lithuania border in part
modern Poland–Ukraine border
basedOn ethnic distribution of populations
basisFor Poland–Belarus border
surface form: Poland–Soviet Union border after World War II
consideredBy Allied powers after World War I
follows ethnographic boundary between Poles and non‑Poles
hasVariant Curzon Line self-linksurface differs
surface form: Curzon Line A

Curzon Line self-linksurface differs
surface form: Curzon Line B
historicalRegion Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic
surface form: Eastern Borderlands (Kresy)
influenced post–World War II eastern border of Poland
languageOfName English
locatedIn Eastern Europe
namedAfter 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston
surface form: George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Lord Curzon
passesNear Białystok NERFINISHED
Brest (Belarus)
surface form: Brest

Hrodna
surface form: Grodno

Lwów
surface form: Lwów (Lviv)
politicallySignificantFor Belarus
Lithuania
Poland
Soviet Union
Ukraine
proposedBy Allied Supreme Council
UK government
surface form: British government
proposedDuring Paris Peace Conference
proposedIn 1919
recognizedDeFactoIn Potsdam Conference outcomes
Yalta Conference discussions
relatedToEvent Polish–Soviet War
Treaty of Riga
World War I
World War II
separates Poland
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Second Polish Republic
Soviet Union
surface form: Soviet Russia
subjectOf diplomatic correspondence in 1919–1920
territorial disputes between Poland and Soviet Russia
timePeriod 20th century
usedAsReferenceBy Soviet Union in 1939
Soviet Union in 1944

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Western Belarus wasDividedBy Curzon Line
Polish–Soviet border agreement of 1945 appliesToTerritory Curzon Line
this entity surface form: Curzon Line region
Curzon Line hasVariant Curzon Line self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Curzon Line A
Curzon Line hasVariant Curzon Line self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Curzon Line B