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Professor’s Marek Koter scientific way from cartography to political geography
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007)
Professor Koter has raised a new generation of scholars: he was thesis
promoter of five doctoral students (three in political geography, one in historical
geography, one in social geography). Increase in staff allowed ...
Origin and geopolitical determinants of Protestantism in Poland in relation to its modern spatial range
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Wydawnictwo Instytut Śląski, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009)
At its outset, although Polish Protestantism gained big popularity, it did not manage to cover a broad social scope. It gained members mainly among the nobility and wealthy bourgeoisie. Cieszyn Silesia region was an exception ...
Polish Eastern Border as an External European Union Border
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Wydawnictwo Instytut Śląski, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009)
1. Apart from Finnish-Russian border, Polish eastern border is one of the longest external European Union and Schengen Agreement land borders under the control of a single country.
2. For the last few years, Polish ...
Spatial and historical conditions of the Basques aiming to obtain political independence
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007)
The problem raised in the title involves a general truth that present forms
of statehood – independent nations – are viewed from a historical perspective.
We look to past times for factors indicating the future in respect ...
The Contemporary Ethnic and Religious Borderland in Podlasie Region
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2005)
The national and religious borderland in Podlasie is a zone with many transitory areas where different national, religious, linguistic and cultural groups overlap. There are hardly any clear dividing lines separating ...
Borderlands in Africa as an asylum for war and political refugees
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2003)
Africa is placed second among all continents as to the number of refugees.
The number of persons remaining under the mandate of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees – UNHCR in Africa has reached 6,072,900 ...
Changes in the Social, Political and Legal Situation of National and Ethnic Minorities in Poland after 1990
(Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, 2010)
The political, legal and social transformations which have taken place over the last 20 years brought about both positive and negative consequences for the situation of non-Polish nationalities.
Positive consequences:
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The contemporary situation of Polish minority in Lithuania and Lithuanian minority in Poland from the institutional perspective
(Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, 2014)
Contemporary Polish-Lithuanian relations are heavily burdened by radically different assessments of the situations
of the national minorities in the two countries, i.e. Poles in Lithuania and Lithuanians in Poland. ...
Achievements of the Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies, University of Łódź, in the field of political geography
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007)
The Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies at the University
of Łódź is considered to be the biggest research centre, with the largest group of researchers involved in the field of political geography in ...
The contemporary Polish-Ukrainian borderland – its political and national aspect
(Państwowy Instytut Naukowy - Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Wydawnictwo Instytut Śląski, Katedra Geografii Politycznej i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009)
During several years the Polish-Ukrainian border was the barrier which strictly separated Polish and Ukrainian nation, as well as the area of the borderland. The situation changed for better after the fall of the communism. ...