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Where is Polvanka?

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Re: Where is Polvanka?

Posted: 25 Jun 2015 4:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
From approximately the 1790s to 1919, Central Europe was divided up between three great Empires, Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian. Poland was roughly divided between the three and did not exist as a separate country, so a Pole could be either, Russian, German oir Austrian (Austro-Hungarian) by nationality. Prussia was the largest state in the German Empire and stretched, in bits and pieces, from west of the Rhine to the Russian frontier in what is now Lithuania. It was entirely within the German Empire so could hardly be part of Poland, which did not exist, nor part of Russia which was another Empire although people who were Polish, Russian, Jewish by ethnicity could all be German by nationality. To say "..it's a "Slovakian country" is totally meaningless - Slovakia is a sovereign, independent country today, during the 19th century it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and from 1919 to the 1990s it was the "Slovakia" part of Czechoslovakia, a post WW1 creation. Googling up a few maps to compare would be very helpful, as would a basic investigation into 19th century European history. Hope this is useful.
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arekeny26 15 Oct 2014 11:02AM GMT 
Robert Jerin 17 Oct 2014 12:32AM GMT 
arekeny26 19 Oct 2014 1:36AM GMT 
Mick__ 26 Oct 2014 11:33AM GMT 
halpark 17 Oct 2014 11:02AM GMT 
lnickel458 25 Jun 2015 3:36AM GMT 
halpark 25 Jun 2015 10:57AM GMT 
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