Polity Polish Liquidation Committee

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Created on 28 October 1918, with its seat in Kraków. The Committee aimed primarily to maintain order in the territories of the former Austrian part of partitioned Poland during the re-establishment of an independent Poland.

Establishment

  • October 1918: The Polish Liquidation Committee was created on 28 October 1918, with its seat in Kraków. The Committee aimed primarily to maintain order in the territories of the former Austrian part of partitioned Poland during the re-establishment of an independent Poland.
  • November 1918: The Komancza Republic was a short-lived microstate, an association of thirty three Lemko villages, seated in Komańcza in eastern Lemkivshchyna, that existed between 4 November 1918 and 24 January 1919.
  • November 1918: The Republic of Tarnobrzeg was a short-lived entity, proclaimed in the Polish town of Tarnobrzeg.
  • November 1918: On 11 November 1918 in Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country. On the same day, which would become Poland's Independence Day, he proclaimed the independent Polish Republic.
  • November 1918: The Republic of Zakopane was eventually disestablished on November 16 when the Polish Liquidation Committee took control of Galicia.
  • December 1918: The Lemko Republic was a short-lived state founded in 1918 in the aftermath of World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was located in the Lemko region of present-day Poland and Ukraine.

Chronology

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1. World War I

Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

1.1. Aftermath of World War I

Were a series of treaties and military events that can be considered a direct consequence of World War I.

1.1.1. Aftermath of World War I in Poland

Events that happened shortly after the end of World War I in Poland.

  • October 1918: The Polish Liquidation Committee was created on 28 October 1918, with its seat in Kraków. The Committee aimed primarily to maintain order in the territories of the former Austrian part of partitioned Poland during the re-establishment of an independent Poland.
  • November 1918: The Republic of Tarnobrzeg was a short-lived entity, proclaimed in the Polish town of Tarnobrzeg.
  • November 1918: On 11 November 1918 in Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country. On the same day, which would become Poland's Independence Day, he proclaimed the independent Polish Republic.
  • November 1918: The Republic of Zakopane was eventually disestablished on November 16 when the Polish Liquidation Committee took control of Galicia.
  • March 1919: The Polish Liquidation Committee handed over its authority to the central Polish government seated in Warsaw.

2. Russian Civil War

Was a Civil War in Russia that involved varios factions but mainly the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Army in the core Russian territories, as well as a multitude of local secessionist states. At the end of war the Bolsheviks were victorious and established the Soviet Union.

2.1. Ukrainian-Soviet War

Was a conflict between Ukrainian nationalist forces and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. It also included a multitude of ethnical and local factions.

  • November 1918: The Komancza Republic was a short-lived microstate, an association of thirty three Lemko villages, seated in Komańcza in eastern Lemkivshchyna, that existed between 4 November 1918 and 24 January 1919.
  • December 1918: The Lemko Republic was a short-lived state founded in 1918 in the aftermath of World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was located in the Lemko region of present-day Poland and Ukraine.

Disestablishment

  • March 1919: The Polish Liquidation Committee handed over its authority to the central Polish government seated in Warsaw.