[go: up one dir, main page]

About: Kresy myth

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Kresy myth (Polish: mit Kresów) is a view of the former eastern borderlands of Poland (Kresy) as a multicultural land dominated by Polish culture. According to Andrii Portnov, the Kresy is seen as "'the lost paradise' of Poland’s 'civilisational mission'" at the same time as the location of "bloody and romantic clashes with the Cossacks and Tatars". The Kresy was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Second Polish Republic but since 1945 is outside of Poland, in present-day Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania. The Kresy, in the Polish imagination, extend beyond the areas which became part of interwar Poland. After the territorial losses of World War II, the nostalgia focused on the Vilnius region and East Galicia. Exponents of the discourse tend to focus on Poles living in the Kre

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Kresy myth (Polish: mit Kresów) is a view of the former eastern borderlands of Poland (Kresy) as a multicultural land dominated by Polish culture. According to Andrii Portnov, the Kresy is seen as "'the lost paradise' of Poland’s 'civilisational mission'" at the same time as the location of "bloody and romantic clashes with the Cossacks and Tatars". The Kresy was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Second Polish Republic but since 1945 is outside of Poland, in present-day Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania. The Kresy, in the Polish imagination, extend beyond the areas which became part of interwar Poland. After the territorial losses of World War II, the nostalgia focused on the Vilnius region and East Galicia. Exponents of the discourse tend to focus on Poles living in the Kresy without paying much attention to the region's Ukrainian, Lithuanian, or Belarusian inhabitants. (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 65713909 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 7236 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1107769301 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdfs:comment
  • The Kresy myth (Polish: mit Kresów) is a view of the former eastern borderlands of Poland (Kresy) as a multicultural land dominated by Polish culture. According to Andrii Portnov, the Kresy is seen as "'the lost paradise' of Poland’s 'civilisational mission'" at the same time as the location of "bloody and romantic clashes with the Cossacks and Tatars". The Kresy was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Second Polish Republic but since 1945 is outside of Poland, in present-day Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania. The Kresy, in the Polish imagination, extend beyond the areas which became part of interwar Poland. After the territorial losses of World War II, the nostalgia focused on the Vilnius region and East Galicia. Exponents of the discourse tend to focus on Poles living in the Kre (en)
rdfs:label
  • Kresy myth (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:ideology of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:ideology of
is rdfs:seeAlso of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License