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    The Recovered Territories or Regained Lands (Polish: Ziemie Odzyskane), also known as the Western Borderlands (Polish: Kresy Zachodnie), and previously...
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    present-day Germany, the former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer to those territories east of the current eastern border...
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    eastern territories, at the expense of losing its eastern regions. The Polish People's Republic regime described the territories as the "Recovered Territories"...
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    Oder–Neisse line became its western border, resulting in gaining the Recovered Territories from Germany. The Curzon Line became its eastern border, resulting...
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    revolutionary changes of 1989 and 1990. Those territories were known in Poland as the Regained or Recovered Territories, a term based on the claim that they were...
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    loss via the incorporation of formerly German areas (the so-called Recovered Territories) into Poland. As a result, the current border between Poland and...
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    provinces, newly emptied of their German population and renamed as the "Recovered Territories" of the Polish People's Republic, based on Polish medieval settlement...
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    there were still 2,036,400 Germans in the "Recovered Territories", 251,900 in the pre-war Polish territories (primarily eastern Upper Silesia, Pomerelia...
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    and Polish population transfers (1944–46). Poles settled in the "Recovered Territories" in the west and north, which had previously been mostly German-speaking...
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    Lemkos) from the southeastern provinces of postwar Poland to the Recovered Territories in the west of the country. The action was carried out by the Soviet-installed...
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    Rivers became Germany's new eastern boundary. This territory became Poland's so-called "Recovered Territories", while approximately one-third of East Prussia...
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    historical eastern Germany; after 1945, these were referred to as the "Recovered Territories" of the Polish People's Republic. The history of ethnic Polish settlement...
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    from Auschwitz, and settled in Bystrzyca Kłodzka of the western Recovered Territories. Once there, he started working at a local forge owned by Paul Wolf...
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    so-called 'repatriants', were resettled to former German territories, then dubbed 'Recovered Territories'. Czech Edvard Beneš, in his decree of 19 May 1945...
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    resettled from the former eastern territories of Poland by the Soviets to the Recovered Territories (Former eastern territories of Germany). Since the fall...
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    populated the Recovered Territories in 1945–1950, 2.9 million came from central and south-eastern provinces of the new Polish territory and over 1.5 million...
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    Ukraine. In compensation, Poland was given former German territory (the so-called Recovered Territories): the southern half of East Prussia and all of Pomerania...
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    Kingdom of Prussia (category States and territories established in 1701)
    Prussia. The annexed territory connected East Prussia with the Province of Pomerania, uniting the kingdom's eastern territories. After Frederick died...
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  • in Central Asia Western Territories (Ziemie Zachodnie) or Recovered Territories (Ziemie Odzyskane), Former eastern territories of Germany annexed to Poland...
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    the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories. The territories share the vast majority of their borders with Israel, with the...
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  • several months until surrendering in the next summer. The Qing recovered territories in Fujian previously lost to the rebels. Draft History of Qing [Men-at-Arms]...
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    the town of Pieńsk (former German: Penzig) near Zgorzelec in the Recovered Territories of the newly restored Republic of Poland, where he found a job of...
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    desirable. Nazi war criminals were to be found and put on trial in the territories in which their crimes had been committed. Nazi leaders were to be executed...
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    prewar National Democracy movement in regard to the post-German "Recovered Territories". A "Democratic Bloc" of parties was organized around the PPR; it...
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  • Defense of Peace, attended by, among others, Pablo Picasso, and the Recovered Territories Exhibition [pl]. In 1952, the city's administrative system was reformed...
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    terrula in Latin (a small land), existed in the early 13th century in the territories which later comprised Prussia, Latvia and Lithuania and centred on strongholds...
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    Hither Pomerania were also transferred to Poland as part of the territories recovered from Germany, following World War II. As agreed upon in the Treaty...
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    of them remains there today, the rest being scattered across the Recovered Territories.[citation needed] The landscape is typical of medium-height-mountain...
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    Kresy region and drew Polish border to Kresy Zachodnie as part of Recovered Territories. During the People's Republic of Poland's era, due to communist...
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    Prussia (category States and territories established in 1525)
    the recovery of her lost territories, as well as the whole of the Rhineland, Westphalia, 40% of Saxony and some other territories. These western lands were...
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