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See Poland–Spain relations. Poland has an embassy in Madrid and a consulate-general in Barcelona. Spain has an embassy in Warsaw. Both countries are full members of the European Union and NATO. Sweden: 1919-6-3 [209] See Poland–Sweden relations. Poland and Sweden formed the Polish–Swedish union in the late 16th century.
Polish–Slovak relations are foreign relations between Poland and Slovakia. Both nations are members of the European Union and NATO. Both joined the EU simultaneously on 1 May 2004. Both countries form together with the Czech Republic and Hungary the Visegrád Group, which is an important regional group in Central Europe.
Poland, together with other Eastern Bloc countries, participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Relations between the two countries were nonetheless rather amicable, but became somewhat strained in the aftermath of the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland in 1980 and 1981, improving again afterwards.
This project also failed: Poland was distrusted by Czechoslovakia and Lithuania; and while it had relatively good relations with the other countries, they had tensions with their neighbors, making it virtually impossible to create in Central Europe a large block of countries that all had good relations with each other.
Poland, [d] officially the Republic of Poland, [e] is a country in Central Europe.It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia [f] to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
Poland recognized Croatia on 15 January 1992 along with 16 other, mostly European countries. Diplomatic relations between two countries were established on 11 April 1992. [3] During the Yugoslav Wars, the Croatian 103rd Infantry Brigade received a small number of Polish volunteers.
Poland in 996 under the rule of Mieszko I, whose acceptance of Christianity and the Baptism of Poland marked the beginning of statehood in 966.. In the 10th century, the West Slavic Polan tribe under the Piast prince Mieszko I about 960 were able to consolidate Lechitic tribes and establish a sovereign state around Poznań and Gniezno in an area later called Greater Poland.
Poland occupied some northern parts of Slovakia and received territories around Suchá Hora and Hladovka, around Javorina, and in addition the territory around Lesnica in the Pieniny Mountains, a small territory around Skalité and some other very small border regions. Poland officially received the territories on 1 November 1938.