Polonization or Polonisation (Polish: polonizacja) is the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular the Polish language. This...

of Poland, becoming de jure Polish territory. Under the pressures of Polonisation, many landed gentry of Ruthenia converted to Catholicism and joined the...

and was the largest state in Europe. Simultaneously, Poland imposed Polonisation policies in newly acquired territories which were met with resistance...

the middle of the 17th century most writings were in Polish due to the Polonisation (before the 16th century the number was only around 5%). The city prospered...

Potsdam Agreement, with the ensuing re-Polonisation, or in the case of East Prussia, re-Lithuanianisation, Polonisation and Russification of these regions...

following statement: "Stop the Ukrainianisation of Poland. Stop the de-Polonisation of Poland. It is about making Poland Polish". This statement was later...

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Belarusian languages. The reform was to cancel the influences of the Polonisation corrupting the Belarusian language. The reform was to remove the archaisms...

self-government in accordance with the Magdeburg rights. Despite ever-increasing Polonisation, Trakai remained a notable center of Karaim cultural and religious life...

was settled with colonists from Poland proper resulting in systematic polonisation of these lands. When the Kalmar Union between Sweden and Denmark was...

for choir, cantor and even organ was evolved. In an age of increasing polonisation, the Uniate Church played an invaluable role in preserving the integrity...

policies after his resumption of power in 1926 as similarly focusing on the Polonisation of the country's Eastern Slavic minorities and on the centralisation...

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The town of Kętrzyn was named after Wojciech Kętrzyński in 1946 as part of the region's Polonisation. Its previous Polish name was "Rastembork"....

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in the late 19th century. Russophilia was largely a backlash against Polonisation (in Galicia) and Magyarisation (in Carpathian Ruthenia) that was largely...

hand, the southwestern territories of former Kievan Rus' would undergo Polonisation and experience the 1596 Union of Brest, leading to the creation of the...

in other respects due to either ancient regional West Slavic roots or Polonisation. Such minorities include the Slovincians (Lebakaschuben), the Masurians...

along with the reversal of forced Russification and Germanisation by the Polonisation of the partitioned territories in the former Commonwealth. Francišak...

but we cannot tolerate any intermediate types". However, the policy of Polonisation was highly unpopular among Upper Silesians, which was reflected in the...

origin and thus, having come from the peasant class was least affected by Polonisation. The movement resulted in the publication of the Lithuanian newspapers...

officially announces that it takes control over Greater Poland. Beginning of polonisation of administration, most former anti-Polish officials being fired. In...

rather than of the former upper class of Ruthenian nobility. Despite polonisation in Lithuania and Ruthenia in the 17th-18th centuries, a large part of...

Latin rite, Polonisation and significant problems for all Orthodox and Uniate Christians developed. Some Ruthenians, resisting Polonisation, felt deserted...

movement at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Silesia, and Polonisation in the interwar period, there was still a large group of Silesians who...

perceived Russification, or in the Cyrillic script against perceived Polonisation. In the end, Cyrillic prevailed. People speaking Romanian gradually adopted...

ethnicity or culture of origin, were considered as "Poles". Despite Polonisation in Lithuania and Ruthenia in the 17th-18th centuries, a large part of...

and Rome until the persecutions in 1945. Some Ruthenians, resisting Polonisation, felt deserted by the Vatican and returned to the Russian Orthodox Church...

Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Aušra was critical regarding the forceful Polonisation executed by the Polish clergy and Tsarist Russification. One of the main...

circular) languages. These measures, however, had limited effects on the Polonisation effort undertaken by the Polish patriotic leadership of the Vilnius educational...