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Poland became a state by the union of a number of Slavonic tribes settled in the basins of the Vistula, the Warta and the Oder. The nation was converted to Christianity in 966. Under the Piast dynasty (10th–14th centuries) German ‘eastward expansion’ (Drang nach Osten) deprived Poland of her north-western and western borderlands. After the defeat of the Teutonic Order at Tannenbcrg (1410) and the partial recovery of Prussia, Poland’s political interests turned eastward. Temporary successes in White Russia and the Ukraine were bought by a permanent weakness on her western front. Poland reached the height of her power in the period between the 14th and 16th centuries under the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty. On its extinction the crown became elective and this, leading to an overgrowth of special rights granted to the nobility and gentry, resulted in the permanent weakness of the central authority.
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Books of Reference concerning Poland
Official Publications
Concise Statistical Year-Book of Poland. (First year, 1930.) Warsaw.
Annuaire Statistique de la Kepublique Polonaise, (First year, 1921.) Warsaw.
Atlas Statystyczny Rzeczypospolitej Polskeij (Atlas Statistique de la Bepublique de Pologne). Warsaw.
Statistical News of the Central Statistical Office. (Text in Polish and English.) Warsaw, fortnightly
General Summarized Population Census (2 February, 1946). (Text in Polish and English.) Warsaw, 1947.
Census of Industrial Plants, 1943. (Text in Polish and English.) Warsaw, 1947.
Non-Official
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Steinberg, S.H. (1948). Poland. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270770_54
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