Talk:Second Polish Republic

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Occupied by German and Austro-Hungarian in the summer of 1915, the former Russian-ruled part of Poland was proclaimed an independent kingdom by the occupying powers on 5 November 1916, with a governing Council of State and (from 15 October 1917) a Regency Council (Rada Regencyjna) to administer the country under German auspices pending the election of a king.

Are we talking about the same place? The sentence seems to be starting to talk about the former Russian-ruled part of Poland. Are we talking about all of Poland, or just the part that was formerly ruled by Russia? I got very confused. -- Zoe

Contents 1 Split 2 Wikify 3 Cleanup 4 Minorities 5 Coat of Arms 6 Cities, area, population etc. 7 Second paragraph 8 No map of 1919 borders?

[edit] Split

This article will soon be splitted into several subarticles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland/Periodization. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:22, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikify

Just gets messy near the bottom. Needs to be cleaned up a tad. --Woohookitty 06:09, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

--- What was the First Republic? Känsterle 11:15, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 14:56, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Five edits in nearly four years. Can only a mother love this? --Matthead 04:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

• I have no idea what you're talking about. Deltabeignet 01:48, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minorities

I added some statistics on minorities and the number of ethnically Jewish in the Second Republic to the demographics section. The statements are sourced. Please build upon them if you wish. Aaрон Кинни (t) 10:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coat of Arms

Was the Piast Coat of Arms used as the Coat of Arms of the Second Polish Republic between 1927 and 1939? WhyNotFreedom 05:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cities, area, population etc.

I own a Statistical Year-Book of Poland 1939 (Maly rocznik statystyczny 1939). This is the best source one can get and little by little, I will be making corrections to the data given so far, as well as adding some more information. I will start up with population of biggest cities of Poland in 1939, there are some differences. Greetings to all Tymek 05:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Second paragraph

Second paragraph needs to cite sources or be deleted. It also contains possible POVs. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 10:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

The article is poorly referenced, but I see no controversial information it may contained. Lack of references is no reason for deletion, unless the information is clearly wrong or insulting.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I would have to disagree, it seems an obvious reason for removal to me. References are a fundamental part of Wikipedia (see WP:RS, WP:A, WP:NOR and WP:V). And as I have stated before it contains sentences that sound a bit POV. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 03:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No map of 1919 borders?

I wonder why there is no map of the original borders of 1919, according to Versailles?-- Matthead ^discuß!     O       14:47, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

See Category:Maps of the history of Poland. But indeed many maps are missing. There may be some in various atlases, though; some hopefully PD.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  16:47, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Map from 1919 as requested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Europe_map_1919.jpg

It seems somebody already uploaded such a map.--Molobo (talk) 23:06, 16 November 2007 (UTC)