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    administratively promoted Polonization, particularly during the Second Polish Republic and in the period following World War II. Polonization can be seen as an...
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  • Ruthenian, where it became an official language, before a process of Polonization began in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. By the 18th century, Ruthenian...
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    in the context of the Communist concept of class struggle. However, Polonization of the figure was also met by opposition because it was supposedly too...
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    of Lublin. In the years following the union, the process of gradual Polonization of both Lithuanians and Ruthenians gained steady momentum. In culture...
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    century, the Polonization of the lands within the borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a completed process, and the Polonization of Vilnius...
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    Polish State, and for the Lublin region must be a factor of Polonization. We strive to Polonize Orthodoxy." An important role was also played in military...
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  • Bosniakisation Bulgarisation Croatisation Czechization Macedonization Polonization Russification Serbianisation Slovakization Ukrainization Hellenization...
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    attempted to protect the Eastern Orthodox minority in the east from Polonization. His initiative of printing the Stanisław Orzechowski annals and Jan...
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    the interbellum Second Republic, the ND was a strong proponent for the Polonization of the country's German minority and of other non-Polish (Belarusian...
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    religious freedom varied. Poland acted as the dominant partner in the union. Polonization of nobles was generally voluntary, but state efforts at religious conversion...
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    Belarusians in 1927. The Belarusian population of West Belarus faced active Polonization by the central Polish authorities. The policy pressured Belarusian schooling...
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    turn to Catholicism and became fully associated with the Polish nation (Polonization). Many of their possessions were passed on or inherited by members of...
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    Part of a series on the History of Poland Topics Polonophile Polonization Flag Name Coat of arms Monarchs Military history Wars Territorial evolution Jewish...
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  • pursue stricter polonization policies and to increase the role of Catholic Church in the state. Furthermore, the program of Polonization of the Eastern...
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  • nationality) — a term describing the political and national self-identification of Polonized Ruthenians (modern Belarusians, Rusyns, Ukrainians). The authorship of...
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    they also faced discrimination even after completing it, such as the Polonization of their names. In the Lubusz region (former East Brandenburg), the local...
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    importance of the Lithuanian language and opposed Russification and Polonization. The General Elders of Samogitia (equivalents of voivodes) included:...
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    considered themselves German but had been neutral; those who were partially "Polonized" but "Germanizable"; and Germans who were of Polish nationality. Himmler...
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    pressure of Polonization was harder to resist with each subsequent generation and eventually almost all of the Ruthenian nobility was Polonized.[citation...
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    village was first mentioned in the year 1347. The name of the village is a Polonized version of a German word Mehlstein. In the Middle Ages, Melsztyn belonged...
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  • formal education despite 200 years of Russification and tens of years of Polonization. Jankowiak also notes that Bronisław Taraszkiewicz who was first to codify...
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  • Schwartz Schwarz Shvarts Shwartz Shwarz Swartz Swarz Schwortz Szwarc (Polonized) Švarc/Svarc Other Germanic de Zwart Swart Zwart Zwarts Romance Del Negro...
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    Cossacks, the Zaporozhets Ivan Zarutsky, stood out, either a Pole or a Polonized Ukrainian from the Russian Voivodeship, who received the rank of boyar...
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    century as a self-defence reaction to the Polonization and by the 1880s started slowing down the process of Polonization of the ethnically Lithuanian population...
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  • Schwartz Schwarz Shvarts Shwartz Shwarz Swartz Swarz Schwortz Szwarc (Polonized) Švarc/Svarc Other Germanic de Zwart Swart Zwart Zwarts Romance Del Negro...
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  • Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius in 1560. The gradual Polonization of Vilnius, which began in the late 14th century, proceeded through the...
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    Part of a series on the History of Poland Topics Polonophile Polonization Flag Name Coat of arms Monarchs Military history Wars Territorial evolution Jewish...
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  • Schneider, Schnieder, Schnieders Anglicized: Snyder, Snyders, Snider Polonized: Sznajder Czechized: Šnajdr/Šnajder/Šnejdr Russified: Shneider/Shneyder...
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    became an ancestor of a new family, known as Radvilos. Later the name was polonized to Radziwiłł. Since there is nothing known about Mikalojus and Baltramiejus...
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  • Shuman, Shumann, Shuster, Schubert, Schuchardt Stiefel, Stiefl, Stifel, Polonized: Szubert Romance Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter...
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