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Wikipedia: The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland, officially known as the Republic of Poland, was the independent Polish state that existed between the two world wars: from the creation of an independent Poland in the aftermath of World War I, to the invasion of Poland in 1939 by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Slovak Republic, which marked the beginning of World War II. When the borders of the state were fixed in 1922 after several regional conflicts, the Republic bordered Czechoslovakia, Germany, Free City of Danzig, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, and the Soviet Union, plus a tiny strip of the coastline of the Baltic Sea, around the city of Gdynia. Furthermore, in the period March 1939 – August 1939, Poland bordered then-Hungarian Carpathian Ruthenia.
![[Second Polish Republic, Physical 1939]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Poland1939_physical_s.jpg "Second Polish Republic, Physical 1939")
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![[Polish population as of 1918]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bev_C3_B6lkerungsverteilung_Ostmitteleuropa_um_1918_s.jpg "Polish population as of 1918")
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![[Poland, linguistic 1937]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Poland1937linguistic_s.jpg "Poland, linguistic 1937")
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![[Industry areas and communication routes in Poland before the start of WWII.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/WWII_Poland_1939_communications_and_industry_s.jpg "Industry areas and communication routes in Poland before the start of WWII.")
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![[Józef Piłsudski, Chief of State]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Jozef_Pilsudski1_s.jpg "Józef Piłsudski, Chief of State")
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![[Edward Rydz]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rydz_Smigly_Bulawa1_s.jpg "Edward Rydz")
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![[Popadia in Gorgany. Polish-Czechoslovak border (before World War 2)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Popadia_02_s.jpg "Popadia in Gorgany. Polish-Czechoslovak border (before World War 2)")
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