But is the map the territory? Where was Poland when it wasn’t there ... At the peak of its power in the late 17th century this multi-ethnic state stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The map ...

Here's a look at some of the languages spoken in these lands, and a short manual to the linguistic idiosyncrasies which often entailed complicated issues of ethnic, social and even economical ...

At least, said Roosevelt, give Poland the oil province of Lvov (it lay east of the Curzon line, which the Allies of World War I had proposed as the fairest ethnic frontier between Poland and Russia).