Kresy

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borderland historical region

Kresy refers to the former eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic, historically multicultural regions that were annexed by the Soviet Union during and after World War II.

Aliases (8)

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	borderland → historical region →
annexedBy	Soviet Union →
associatedWithEvent	expulsion of Poles from the Eastern Borderlands → population transfers after World War II →
borderedBy	Czechoslovakia (interwar period) → Romania (interwar period) → Soviet Union (interwar period) →
characteristic	multicultural →
containsCity	Brześć nad Bugiem → Grodno → Lwów → Nowogródek NERFINISHED → Pińsk NERFINISHED → Stanisławów → Tarnopol → Wilno → Łuck →
country	Second Polish Republic →
culturalSignificance	important in Polish historical memory →
englishName	Eastern Borderlands →
ethnicGroup	Armenians → Belarusians → Jews → Lithuanians → Poles → Ukrainians →
event	Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) → World War II border changes →
historicalPeriod	World War II → interwar period →
historicalRegionOf	Poland →
historicalStatus	lost territories of Poland →
language	Belarusian → Lithuanian → Polish → Ukrainian → Yiddish →
locatedIn	eastern part of the Second Polish Republic →
nowInCountry	Belarus → Lithuania → Russia → Ukraine →
partOf	Second Polish Republic →
polishName	Kresy Wschodnie →
religion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Greek Catholicism → Judaism → Roman Catholicism →
timeOfAnnexation	1939 → 1944–1945 →
topicOf	Kresy literature → Polish romantic nationalism →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lwów ("Ruthenia") → Operation Tempest in eastern Poland ("Kresy Wschodnie") → Wiszniew, Second Polish Republic →	historicalRegion
Cossack Hetmanate ("Ruthenian lands") → Wilno Voivodeship ("Polish eastern borderlands") →	partOf
Wilno ("Kresy Wschodnie") →	associatedWithRegion
Volhynian Voivodeship ("Poland–Soviet Union border") →	borderRegionOf
Lesser Poland ("Ruthenia") →	borders
Eastern Poland →	containsHistoricalRegion
Heeresgruppe Süd ("Poland (1939)") →	historicalRegionOfOperations
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland →	location
Polish deportees in the USSR →	locationOfOrigin
Eastern Poland ("Kresy Wschodnie") →	overlapsWith
Mark Kac ("Kresy, Poland") →	placeOfBirth
Kresy ("Kresy Wschodnie") →	polishName
Stanisław Narutowicz ("Polish-Lithuanian borderlands") →	sphereOfInfluence