Poland - Poland - History: The terms Poland and Poles appear for the first time in medieval chronicles of the late 10th century. The land that the Poles, a West Slavic people, came to inhabit was covered by forests with small areas under cultivation where clans grouped themselves into numerous tribes.

1772 - A weakened Poland is divided between Prussia, Austria, and Russia in what is called the First Partition. 1791 - Poland establishes a new constitution with liberal reforms. 1793 - Russia and Prussia invade and once again divide Poland into the Second Partition.

Question: What Was Poland Called Before It Was Poland? Poland The lands originally inhabited by the Polans became known as Staropolska, or “Old Poland” , and later as Wielkopolska, or “Greater Poland”, while the lands conquered towards the end of the 10th century, home of the Vistulans (Wiślanie) and the Lendians, became known as Małopolska, or “Lesser Poland.”

The remainder of German-occupied Poland—including the cities of Warsaw, Krakow (Kraków), Radom, and Lublin—was organized as the so-called Generalgouvernement (General Government—under a civilian governor general, the Nazi Party lawyer Hans Frank. Nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.

Between 1900 and 1920, more than a third of all Polish-Americans lived in the Upper Great Lakes region of the United States, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. This included the founding of small towns named after sites in Poland, such …

Prussia, German Preussen, Polish Prusy, in European history, any of certain areas of eastern and central Europe, respectively (1) the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages, (2) the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, including Prussia and Brandenburg, with Berlin as …