Eastern Poland

E58139

historical region

Eastern Poland is the historically contested eastern region of the Polish state, which before and during World War II was home to many Poles who were later deported to the Soviet Union.

Aliases (1)

eastern Poland ×6

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical region →
borderChangedSignificantlyDuring	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact period → World War II →
containsHistoricalRegion	Kresy →
country	Poland →
deportationsOccurredIn	1940 → 1941 →
historicallyContestedBy	Austro-Hungarian Empire → German Empire → Poland → Russian Empire → Soviet Union →
historicallyIncludedCity	Białystok region → Lwów → Polesie region → Wilno →
isRememberedFor	Soviet deportations of Poles → loss of prewar Polish eastern territories →
locatedIn	Central Europe →
overlapsWith	Kresy Wschodnie →
partOf	Second Polish Republic →
postWarBordersShiftedTo	west →
postWarTerritoriesNowIn	Belarus → Lithuania → Ukraine →
postWarTerritoriesTransferredTo	Soviet Union →
preWarPopulationIncluded	Belarusians → Jews → Lithuanians → Poles → Ukrainians →
sawDeportationOf	Polish citizens to Kazakhstan → Polish citizens to Siberia → Polish citizens to other parts of the Soviet Union →
wasAffectedBy	Soviet NKVD operations → Soviet collectivization policies → Sovietization of institutions →
wasAnnexedBy	Soviet Union →
wasAnnexedIn	1939 →
wasAnnexedUnder	German–Soviet Frontier Treaty → Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact →
wasOccupiedBy	Soviet Union →
wasOccupiedDuring	Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) → World War II →
wasSiteOf	Soviet political repression → mass deportations to the Soviet Union → population transfers during World War II →
wasSubjectOf	Polish–Soviet border negotiations after World War II →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lublin ("eastern Poland") → Lublin Voivodeship ("eastern Poland") → Podlasie ("eastern Poland") → Włodawa ("eastern Poland") →	locatedIn
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland →	appliesToTerritorialEntity
Eastern Bloc →	includedTerritory
Majdan Tatarski district of Lublin ("eastern Poland") →	locatedInAdministrativeTerritory
Polish deportees in the USSR →	locationOfOrigin
Army Group Centre ("eastern Poland") →	operationalArea
Zamość →	region