From historical to ethnic Poland (from Oskar Żebrowski’s vision to Czesław Jankowski’s project)
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Poland’s borders, Oskar Żebrowski, Czesław JankowskiAbstract
The article refreshes two territorial concepts referring to Polish political borders. The first one was created in 1847 by Oskar Żebrowski, and the second one in 1914 by Czesław Jankowski. Both concepts presenting the original ideas of the hypothetical future borders of Poland were illustrated with the maps that were described and interpreted. Oskar Żebrowski demarcated the borderlines based on the remains of the former Republic of Poland. Czesław Jankowski presented the ethnical approach and established future Polish borders reflecting the migrations and location of the Polish population and language. Both projects differed significantly in terms of size and shape due to the authors’ different approaches. The analysis of both maps and the comparison to the actual post wars borders of Poland enables the verification of how accurate and realistic each of them was.
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