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title="Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire)">Kholm Governorate</a> from <a href="/wiki/Congress_Poland" title="Congress Poland">Congress Poland</a> and annexation into Russian <a href="/wiki/Kiev_General_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev General Governorate">Kiev General Governorate</a> (1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Act_of_5th_November" title="Act of 5th November">Act of 5th November</a> by the Central Powers proclaiming <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Poland_(1917%E2%80%931918)" title="Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)">Kingdom of Poland</a> (1916)</li> <li>Central Powers-<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic">Ukrainian People's Republic</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_State" title="Ukrainian State">Ukrainian State</a> <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk_(Ukraine%E2%80%93Central_Powers)" title="Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers)">Treaty of Brest-Litovsk</a> (1918)</li> <li>Central Powers-Soviet Russia <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk" title="Treaty of Brest-Litovsk">Treaty of Brest-Litovsk</a> (1918)</li> <li>Short-lived Byelorussian, Ukrainian and Rusyn republics (1917-1920): <a href="/wiki/West_Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="West Ukrainian People's Republic"> West Ukrainian People's</a> (later absorbed into Poland-allied <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic"> Ukrainian People 's</a>), <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Democratic_Republic" title="Belarusian Democratic Republic">Belarusian Democratic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lemko_Republic" title="Lemko Republic">Lemko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Komancza_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Komancza Republic">Komancza</a></li> <li>Local revolts and transient polities in postwar power vacuum (1918) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tarnobrzeg_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarnobrzeg Republic">Tarnobrzeg Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Zakopane" title="Republic of Zakopane">Republic of Zakopane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Republic_of_Pi%C5%84cz%C3%B3w" title="First Republic of Pińczów">First Republic of Pińczów</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Witkowo" title="Witkowo">Witkowo</a> Revolt</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ostr%C3%B3w" title="Republic of Ostrów">Republic of Ostrów</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Polish_Republic" title="Second Polish Republic">Restoration of Polish independence</a> (1918) and ensuing wars to preserve it (1918-1922): <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1918%E2%80%931919)" title="Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919)">Greater Poland uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesian_Uprisings" title="Silesian Uprisings">Silesian Uprisings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_War" title="Polish–Czechoslovak War">Polish–Czechoslovak War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War" title="Polish–Ukrainian War">Polish-West Ukrainian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish-Soviet_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish-Soviet War">War of Polish-Ukrainian alliance</a> against <a href="/wiki/Russian_SFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian SFSR">Soviet Russia</a> (1920-1921) and its satellites: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukrainian SSR</a></li> <li>short-lived <a href="/wiki/Galician_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Galician Soviet Socialist Republic">Galician SSR</a> later merged into the former</li> <li>short-lived <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Soviet_Republic_of_Lithuania_and_Belorussia" title="Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia">SSR of Lithuania and Belorussia</a></li> <li>attempted <a href="/wiki/Polish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Polish Soviet Socialist Republic">Polish SSR</a> later dissolved and replaced with token <a href="/wiki/Polish_National_District" title="Polish National District">Polish National Districts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish-Lithuanian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish-Lithuanian War">Polish-Lithuanian War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Saint-Germain-en-Laye_(1919)" title="Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)">Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suwa%C5%82ki_Agreement" title="Suwałki Agreement">Suwałki Agreement</a> (1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1920)" title="Treaty of Warsaw (1920)">Treaty of Warsaw</a> (1920) with <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic">Ukrainian People's Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_East_Prussian_plebiscite" title="1920 East Prussian plebiscite">1920 East Prussian plebiscite</a> (1920)</li> <li>Polish satellite states <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Central_Lithuania" title="Republic of Central Lithuania">Republic of Central Lithuania</a> (1920-1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig" title="Free City of Danzig">Free City of Danzig</a> under <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> protection (1921-1939)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Riga" class="mw-redirect" title="Peace of Riga">Peace of Riga</a> (1921): eastern border of Poland accepted by <a href="/wiki/Russian_SFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian SFSR">Russian SFSR</a> and its satellites (<a href="/wiki/Byelorussian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Byelorussian SSR">Byelorussian SSR</a> which replaced <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Soviet_Republic_of_Lithuania_and_Belorussia" title="Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia">SSR of Lithuania and Belorussia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukrainian SSR</a> which replaced <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic">Ukrainian People's Republic</a>)</li> <li>Incorporation of <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Central_Lithuania" title="Republic of Central Lithuania">Central Lithuania</a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Convention_regarding_Upper_Silesia" title="German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia">German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia</a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_National_District" title="Polish National District">Polish National Districts</a> of the Soviet Union (1925-1937) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marchlewszczyzna" title="Marchlewszczyzna">Marchlewszczyzna</a> (1925-1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dzier%C5%BCy%C5%84szczyzna" class="mw-redirect" title="Dzierżyńszczyzna">Dzierżyńszczyzna</a> (1932-1937)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Munich Agreement</a> and Polish annexation of <a href="/wiki/Trans-Olza" title="Trans-Olza">Trans-Olza</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Vienna_Award" title="First Vienna Award">First Vienna Award</a> and Polish annexation of parts of <a href="/wiki/Spi%C5%A1" title="Spiš">Spiš</a> and <a href="/wiki/Orava_(region)" title="Orava (region)">Orava</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> (1939) <ul><li>Secret <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Boundary_and_Friendship_Treaty" title="German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty">German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_division_of_Polish_territories_during_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative division of Polish territories during World War II">Wartime administrative division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_areas_annexed_by_Nazi_Germany" title="Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany">Territories of Poland and Danzig annexed by Nazi Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">General Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union" title="Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union">Polish areas annexed by USSR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_government-in-exile" title="Polish government-in-exile">Polish government-in-exile</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polish_Underground_State" title="Polish Underground State">Polish Underground State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Border_and_Commercial_Agreement" title="German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement">German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bialystok_District" title="Bialystok District">Bialystok District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikorski%E2%80%93Mayski_agreement" title="Sikorski–Mayski agreement">Sikorski–Mayski agreement</a> (1941)</li> <li>Transient Polish-controlled areas (1944) <ul><li>Turgiele Republic</li> <li>Iwonicz Republic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Pi%C5%84cz%C3%B3w_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Pińczów Republic">Second Pińczów Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising" title="Warsaw Uprising">Warsaw Uprising</a></li></ul></li> <li>Allied conferences <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tehran_Conference" title="Tehran Conference">Tehran Conference</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Conference_(1943)" title="Moscow Conference (1943)">Moscow Conference</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yalta_Conference" title="Yalta Conference">Yalta Conference</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a> (1945)</li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Post World War II</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_border_agreement_of_August_1945" title="Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945">Polish–Soviet border agreement</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Zgorzelec" title="Treaty of Zgorzelec">Treaty of Zgorzelec</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_territorial_exchange" title="1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange">Polish-Soviet Border Adjustment Treaty</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_border_conflicts#Aftermath" title="Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts">Polish-Czechoslovak Border Treaty</a> (1958)</li> <li>Polish-East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1970)" title="Treaty of Warsaw (1970)">Treaty of Warsaw (1970)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_border_conflicts#Aftermath" title="Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts">Polish-Czechoslovak Border Adjustment</a> (1976)</li> <li>Polish-East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty_(1990)" class="mw-redirect" title="German–Polish Border Treaty (1990)">German-Polish Border Treaty</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">Two Plus Four Treaty</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Good_Neighbourship" title="Treaty of Good Neighbourship">Treaty of Good Neighbourship</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poland%E2%80%93Slovakia_border#2005_adjustment" title="Poland–Slovakia border">Poland–Slovakia Border Adjustment</a> (2005)</li> <li>Polish-Danish Maritime Boundary Delimitation Agreement (2018)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Areas</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li>Remnants of Polish statehood during partitions: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congress_Poland" title="Congress Poland">Congress Poland</a>/<a href="/wiki/Vistula_Land" title="Vistula Land">Vistula Land</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria#Galician_autonomy" title="Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria">Galician autonomy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kresy" title="Kresy">Kresy Wschodnie</a> ("Eastern Borderlands") <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Western_Krai" title="Western Krai">Taken Lands</a> (remainder of Russian partition of Poland) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wile%C5%84szczyzna" class="mw-redirect" title="Wileńszczyzna">Wileńszczyzna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grodzie%C5%84szczyzna" class="mw-redirect" title="Grodzieńszczyzna">Grodzieńszczyzna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_Land" title="Lwów Land">Lwów Land</a></li></ul></li> <li>Areas of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria" title="Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria">Galicia and Lodomeria</a> east of river <a href="/wiki/San_(river)" title="San (river)">San</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kresy_Zachodnie" class="mw-redirect" title="Kresy Zachodnie">Kresy Zachodnie</a> ("Western Borderlands") <ul><li>1815-1918 used as synonymous with entire Prussian partition of Poland</li> <li>1918-1945 used in altered meaning <ul><li>regions unsuccessfully claimed from Germany by interwar Poland, in particular <a href="/wiki/Upper_Silesia" title="Upper Silesia">Upper Silesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warmia" title="Warmia">Warmia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Masuria" title="Masuria">Masuria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Powi%C5%9Ble_(region)" title="Powiśle (region)">Powiśle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Posen-West_Prussia" class="mw-redirect" title="Posen-West Prussia">Posen-West Prussia</a>, sometimes also <a href="/wiki/Starostwo_of_Draheim" title="Starostwo of Draheim">Starostwo of Draheim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lauenburg_and_B%C3%BCtow_Land" title="Lauenburg and Bütow Land">Lauenburg and Bütow Land</a> and easternmost <a href="/wiki/Hither_Pomerania" class="mw-redirect" title="Hither Pomerania">Hither Pomerania</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lands_of_Schlawe_and_Stolp" title="Lands of Schlawe and Stolp">Lands of Schlawe and Stolp</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Olza" title="Trans-Olza">Zaolzie</a></li></ul></li> <li>After 1945, the <a href="/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany" title="Former eastern territories of Germany">former eastern territories of Germany</a> were called <a href="/wiki/Recovered_Territories" title="Recovered Territories">Recovered Territories</a>, while the term <i>Kresy Zachodnie</i> fell into disuse, though it was sometimes invoked to denote Polish claims to some East German territories such as <a href="/wiki/Western_Pomerania" title="Western Pomerania">Wolgast Pomerania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Lusatia" title="Upper Lusatia">Milsko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mi%C5%9Bnia" class="mw-redirect" title="Miśnia">Miśnia</a> or <a href="/wiki/Lausitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Lausitz">Lausitz</a>, raised typically only until early 1970s as counterclaims to retaliate for West German calls for revision of <a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Oder–Neisse line</a>.</li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Demarcation lines</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1918%E2%80%931919)#Between_ceasefire_and_reunification" title="Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919)">Greater Poland military demarcation line</a> (1919-1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Olza#Decision_time_(1918–1920)" title="Trans-Olza">Cieszyn Silesia demarcation line</a> (1918-1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_War#Demarcation_lines" title="Polish–Lithuanian War">Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line</a> (1919-1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curzon_Line" title="Curzon Line">Curzon Line</a> (1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesian_Uprisings#Aftermath" title="Silesian Uprisings">Upper Silesia demarcation line</a> (1921-1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_War#Aftermath" title="Polish–Lithuanian War">Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line</a> (1923-1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Oder–Neisse line</a> (1945–1951)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" 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href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Convention_regarding_Upper_Silesia" title="German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia">German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia</a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_Saar_status_referendum" title="1935 Saar status referendum">Return of the Saar Basin</a> (1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Remilitarization_of_the_Rhineland" class="mw-redirect" title="Remilitarization of the Rhineland">Remilitarization of the Rhineland</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anschluss" title="Anschluss"><i>Anschluss</i> with Austria</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Munich Agreement</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Germany#Invasion_of_the_rest_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Territorial evolution of Germany">Seizure of Czechoslovakia</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Germany#Memel_Territory" title="Territorial evolution of Germany">Treaty of the Cession of the <br />Memel Territory to Germany</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> (1939)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fdeutschland" class="mw-redirect" title="Großdeutschland">Großdeutschland</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_areas_annexed_by_Nazi_Germany" title="Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany">Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">General Government</a></li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Zone_interdite" title="Zone interdite">Zone interdite</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Border_and_Commercial_Agreement" title="German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement">German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tehran_Conference" title="Tehran Conference">Tehran Conference</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Conference_(1943)" title="Moscow Conference (1943)">Moscow Conference and Declaration on Austria</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yalta_Conference" title="Yalta Conference">Yalta Conference</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a> (1945)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Post-World War II</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berlin_Declaration_(1945)" title="Berlin Declaration (1945)">Berlin Declaration</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a> (1945)</li> <li>Luxembourg's annexations (1946 and 1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saar_Protectorate" title="Saar Protectorate">Saar Protectorate</a> (1947)</li> <li>Paris Protocol (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_annexation_of_German_territory_after_the_Second_World_War#Overview_of_areas_annexed_in_1949_(from_north_to_south)" title="Dutch annexation of German territory after the Second World War">Dutch annexation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Elten" title="Elten">Elten</a> and <a href="/wiki/Selfkant" title="Selfkant">Selfkant</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgian_annexation_plans_after_the_Second_World_War" title="Belgian annexation plans after the Second World War">Belgian annexations</a> (1949)</li> <li>Esrablishment of <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Zgorzelec" title="Treaty of Zgorzelec">Treaty of Zgorzelec</a> (1950)</li> <li>Minor territorial exchanges between East Germany and Poland (1949 and 1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonn%E2%80%93Paris_conventions" title="Bonn–Paris conventions">Bonn–Paris conventions</a> and <i>de facto</i> return of <a href="/wiki/Heligoland" title="Heligoland">Heligoland</a> from the UK (1952)</li> <li>Return of <a href="/wiki/Kehl" title="Kehl">Kehl</a> from France (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_and_Paris_Conferences" title="London and Paris Conferences">London and Paris Conferences</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_State_Treaty" title="Austrian State Treaty">Austrian State Treaty</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saar_Treaty" title="Saar Treaty">Saar Treaty</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saar_Protectorate#Referendum_and_the_Little_Reunification_with_Germany" title="Saar Protectorate">"Little Reunification" with Saarland</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgium%E2%80%93Germany_border" title="Belgium–Germany border">Belgium–Germany border</a> treaty and return of the majority of annexations (1958)</li> <li>Return of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kammerwald&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kammerwald (page does not exist)">Kammerwald</a> from Luxembourg (1959)</li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Ausgleichsvertrag</i></span> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selfkant#German_municipality" title="Selfkant">Return of Selfkant</a> (1963)</li> <li>Polish–East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Moscow_(1970)" title="Treaty of Moscow (1970)">Treaty of Moscow</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1970)" title="Treaty of Warsaw (1970)">Treaty of Warsaw</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Power_Agreement_on_Berlin" title="Four Power Agreement on Berlin">Four Power Agreement on Berlin</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basic_Treaty,_1972" title="Basic Treaty, 1972">Basic Treaty</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Prague_(1973)" title="Treaty of Prague (1973)">Treaty of Prague</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_335" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 335">United Nations Security Council Resolution 335</a> (1973)</li> <li>Polish–East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">German–Polish Border Treaty</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">Two Plus Four Treaty</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Good_Neighbourship" title="Treaty of Good Neighbourship">Treaty of Good Neighbourship</a> (1991)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Areas and issues</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alsace%E2%80%93Lorraine" title="Alsace–Lorraine">Alsace–Lorraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany" title="Former eastern territories of Germany">Former eastern territories of Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_question" title="German question">German question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hallstein_Doctrine" title="Hallstein Doctrine">Hallstein Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drang_nach_Osten" title="Drang nach Osten">Drang nach Osten</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Lebensraum" title="Lebensraum">Lebensraum</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Ostpolitik" title="Ostpolitik">Ostpolitik</a></i></span></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Adjacent countries</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_France" title="Territorial evolution of France">Territorial evolution of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Poland" title="Territorial evolution of Poland">Territorial evolution of Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Switzerland" title="Territorial evolution of Switzerland">Territorial evolution of Switzerland</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Territorial_evolution_of_Germany" title="Template:Territorial evolution of Germany"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Territorial_evolution_of_Germany" title="Template talk:Territorial evolution of Germany"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Territorial_evolution_of_Germany" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Territorial evolution of Germany"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>German–Polish Border Treaty of 1990</b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> finally settled the issue of the <a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93German_border" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish–German border">Polish–German border</a>, which in terms of international law had been pending since 1945. It was signed by the foreign ministers of Poland and Germany, <a href="/wiki/Krzysztof_Skubiszewski" title="Krzysztof Skubiszewski">Krzysztof Skubiszewski</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hans-Dietrich_Genscher" title="Hans-Dietrich Genscher">Hans-Dietrich Genscher</a>, on 14 November 1990 in <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a>, ratified by the Polish <span title="Polish-language text"><span lang="pl" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Sejm" title="Sejm">Sejm</a></span></span> on 26 November 1991 and the German <span title="German-language text"><span lang="de" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a></span></span> on 16 December 1991, and entered into force with the exchange of the instruments of ratification on 16 January 1992. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_background">Historical background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Historical background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oder-Neisse_line_between_Germany_and_Poland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Oder-Neisse_line_between_Germany_and_Poland.jpg/220px-Oder-Neisse_line_between_Germany_and_Poland.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Oder-Neisse_line_between_Germany_and_Poland.jpg/330px-Oder-Neisse_line_between_Germany_and_Poland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Oder-Neisse_line_between_Germany_and_Poland.jpg/440px-Oder-Neisse_line_between_Germany_and_Poland.jpg 2x" data-file-width="785" data-file-height="698" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Oder–Neisse line</a> between Germany and Poland</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a> of 1945, the Allies of World War II had defined the <a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Oder–Neisse line</a> as the line of demarcation between the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet occupation zone">Soviet occupation zone</a> in Germany and Poland, pending the final determination of Poland's western frontier in a later peace settlement. This transferred extensive regions to Poland, some of which had been under <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Teutonic_Order" title="State of the Teutonic Order">German control</a> for centuries, reducing Germany to approximately three quarters of the territory as of 1937. The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Zgorzelec" title="Treaty of Zgorzelec">Treaty of Zgorzelec</a> of 1950 between <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a> and the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of Poland">People's Republic of Poland</a> confirmed this border as final. <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>, which saw itself as the only legal successor to the <a href="/wiki/German_Reich" title="German Reich">German Reich</a> and did not recognize East Germany, insisted that final settlement on the Polish–German border could only be accepted by a future reunited Germany. Although West Germany, for all practical purposes, accepted the Oder–Neisse border in the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1970)" title="Treaty of Warsaw (1970)">Treaty of Warsaw (1970)</a>, its legal caveat that only a future peace treaty would formally settle the issue remained in effect.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With <a href="/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a> finally within reach in 1990, the Allies of World War II made full sovereignty for Germany conditional on the final recognition of the Oder–Neisse border, as stipulated in article 1.2 of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The signing of a treaty between Germany and Poland recognizing the Oder–Neisse line as the border under international law was also one of the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Unification_Treaty_(1990)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unification Treaty (1990)">Unification Treaty</a> between West and East Germany that was signed and went into effect on 3 October 1990. 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a Republiką Federalną Niemiec o potwierdzeniu istniejącej między nimi granicy, podpisany w Warszawie dnia 14 listopada 1990 r.">German–Polish Border Treaty (1990)</a></b> </div></div></div> </div> <p>Under the terms of the treaty, the contracting parties </p> <ul><li>reaffirmed the frontier according to the 1950 Treaty of Zgorzelec with its subsequent regulatory statutes and the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw;</li> <li>declared the frontier between them inviolable now and hereafter, and mutually pledged to respect their sovereignty and territorial integrity;</li> <li>declared that they have no territorial claims against each other and shall not raise such claims in the future.</li></ul> <p>The agreement was supplemented by a <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Good_Neighbourship" title="Treaty of Good Neighbourship">Treaty of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation</a>, signed between Poland and Germany on 17 June 1991. </p><p>In the ratification process at the Bundestag, the treaty met with 13 dissenting votes by deputies of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Democratic Union (Germany)">CDU</a>/<a href="/wiki/Christian_Social_Union_of_Bavaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Social Union of Bavaria">CSU</a> faction, among them <a href="/wiki/Erika_Steinbach" title="Erika Steinbach">Erika Steinbach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Ramsauer" title="Peter Ramsauer">Peter Ramsauer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006 the Polish Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Anna_Fotyga" title="Anna Fotyga">Anna Fotyga</a>, responding to the compensation claims raised by the "<a href="/wiki/Prussian_Trust" title="Prussian Trust">Prussian Trust</a>" corporation, stated that the treaty was insufficient and may have to be renegotiated.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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lang="de">Vertrag zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Republik Polen über die Bestätigung der zwischen ihnen bestehenden Grenze</i>; <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>: <i lang="pl">Traktat między Rzeczpospolitą Polską a Republiką Federalną Niemiec o potwierdzeniu istniejącej między nimi granicy</i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div 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