Here about Polonization of Germans throughout ages: http://historum.com/european-history/57157-why-did-hitler-invade-poland-51.html#post1719084?postcount=504 ================================== And in Silesia there was colonization by Frederick the Great: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&t...
Map below shows location of major Polish tribes in the 8th and the early 9th centuries: Green colour = heavily forested territories http://s28.postimg.org/rbqfeccdp/Tribes.png With English translations: http://s21.postimg.org/cf6cvbfbr/Tribes2.png Around 90% of Poland was covered by forest at that t...
Szczecin was part of Poland, as Shmeiker mentioned, already before 985. In fact Szczecin became part of Poland around year 970 - together with the rest of Pomerania: Early expansion of Poland from 940 to 999: http://postimg.org/image/rr79bdy1r/ http://s27.postimg.org/knzdvrsmb/Early_expansion.png Si...
It is interesting how many language / ethnic groups this map from 1847 has for Italy alone... 20: http://s30.postimg.org/dqaaikc01/Italians.png And in France there are even more because... 22 language / ethnic groups (10 South French and 12 North French). On the other hand, this map knows no "Kashub...
It is interesting how many language / ethnic groups this map from 1847 has for Italy alone... 20: http://s30.postimg.org/dqaaikc01/Italians.png And in France there are even more because... 22 language / ethnic groups (10 South French and 12 North French). On the other hand, this map knows no "Kashub...
Regarding discussion from previous pages (mostly German propaganda rants by Opa and his kind): It seems that German propaganda started to count Kashubs and Mazurs as groups distinct from Poles only after 1850: Territories with Polish majority in 1847: Thin red line is the border between Prussian and...
BTW - the exact source of that "Polish propaganda map" from 1847 is: http://s15.postimg.org/z4rch4rez/Source.png That "German strip" was created later - after 1650 and before 1850. Most likely between the First Partition of Poland and 1850. ========================================================== ...
language boundaries around year 1600: Sorry - not 1600 but around 1650 (after the Thirty Years' War and the depopulation of Pomerania caused by it). That "German strip" was created later - after 1600 and before 1850. After 1650 and before 1850. ============================================ Edit: And...
Germans started to divide Poles into "Poles proper", "Kashubs", "Mazurs" and "Silesians" relatively late - after 1850. Here is a Prussian map from year 1847, which doesn't do this - it has no such groups, only "Polacken" everywhere: Red line is border between Prussian and Russian partition zones in ...
And here the results of the Silesian plebiscite as well as statistics on Polish-speaking (first language) population: A relatively large part of Upper Silesian Poles voted for Germany rather than for Poland in that 1921 plebiscite: http://s14.postimg.org/nrkdssrch/1921_Plebiscyt_B.png 1921_Plebiscyt...
BTW: Modern border of Poland is along the falsified Namierowski Line. The original Curzon Line included Lviv as part of Poland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Bernstein_Namier "(...) Namier was seen as one of the biggest enemies of the newly independent Polish state in the British political envi...
Ethnic composition of East Poland (Białystok, Lublin, Lwów, Wilno, Nowogródek, Polesie, Wołyń, Tarnopol, Stanisławów Voivodeships - today entire Lublin and parts of Białystok & Lwów Voivodeships are still in Poland) according to 1931 census: http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&...