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The General Government (German: Generalgouvernement, IPA: [ɡenəˈʁaːlɡuvɛʁnəˌmã] ⓘ; Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Ukrainian: Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (German: Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi ...
Russian Poland, Lithuania and Courland was officially yielded on terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (marked in red).. Vistula Land, [1] [2] also known as Vistula Country (Russian: Привислинский край, romanized: Privislinskiy kray; Polish: Kraj Nadwiślański), [3] was the name applied to the lands of Congress Poland from 1867, following the defeats of the November Uprising ...
Disintegration of the General Government; Territorial ... The Vistula–Oder offensive was a major success for the Soviet military. Within a matter of days, the ...
Operation Vistula (Polish: Akcja Wisła; Ukrainian: Опера́ція «Ві́сла») was the codename for the 1947 forced resettlement of close to 150,000 Ukrainians (including Rusyns, Boykos, and Lemkos) from the southeastern provinces of postwar Poland to the Recovered Territories in the west of the country.
Governorate-General of Orenburg (1851–1881) General Government of Galicia and Bukovina; Baltic General Governorate; Vistula Krai, later as Warsaw Governorate-General (1874–1917) Russian Turkestan; Governor-Generalship of the Steppes; Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917) Grand Duchy of Finland, also known as the General Government of Finland
The name Vistula first appears in the written record of Pomponius Mela (3.33) in AD 40. Pliny in AD 77 in his Natural History names the river Vistla (4.81, 4.97, 4.100). The root of the name Vistula is often thought to come from Proto-Indo-European *weys-: 'to ooze, flow slowly' (cf. Sanskrit अवेषन् avēṣan "they flowed", Old Norse veisa "slime"), and similar elements appear in ...
On 28 March, in the area of the village of Jabłonki, Deputy Minister of National Defence and General Karol Świerczewski was killed in an ambush. His death accelerated Operation Vistula, which had been under preparation since autumn 1946, consisting in the displacement of inhabitants from the UPA's areas of operation. [126]
Vistula Germans (German: Weichseldeutsche) are ethnic Germans who had settled in what became known after the 1863 Polish rebellion as the Vistula Territory. This territory, so designated by the ruling Russians of the time, encompassed most of the Vistula river basin of central Poland up to just east of Toruń .