Polish geographical survey of borders until 1945

Border researches have a long tradition in Poland, because they precede the emergence of geography as an independent scientific discipline.The growing interest in the issue of borders appeared at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when the revival of Polish statehood became the subject of political discourse in the occupied country as well as in exile. The main topics of border and boundary research within political geography focused primarily on state and administrative boundaries. On the field of Polish historical geography, more popular were studies on the history of territorial changes of the country, starting from tribal structures. The other aim of research were internal divisions of Poland into historical, political and administrative regions. One can observe the regularity that studies of political geography developed more strongly during periods of freedom of research (e.g. in the inter-war period), and in the periods of ideological restrictions (e.g. annexations by neighboring powers), historical-geographical studies were intensifying.The aim of the article is to review the researches on borders in Polish political and historical geography since they were taken up until the end of the Second World War showing the most important trends in their development

Atlas rómskych komunít na Slovensku 2013, Regionálne centrum Rozvojového programu OSN Pre Európu i Společenstvo nezávislých štátov v Bratislave, Bratyslava 2013, 120 ss.

Czasopismo współfinansowane ze środków Wydziału Nauk Geograficznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Borderlands of nations, nations of borderlands. Minorities in the borderlands and on the fringes of countries

In the past two years, the European continent has become the target of mass migration of various ethnic and religious groups who, for reasons of security or economic hardship, have decided to leave their homelands and go into dangerous exile, mostly by sea. In order to reach the world perceived by them as an oasis of security and prosperity, and above all tolerance for racial, ethnic, cultural and religious differences, the arrivals are deepening the already large diversity of the Old Continent's population, where the various minorities have been living for a long time. Particularly interesting is the question of the functioning of national and religious minorities in the borderlands between countries, as well as the formation of such borderlands by different nations. Therefore, the editors propose that number 13 of Region and Regionalism addresses the issue of Borderlands of nations, nations of borderlands. The proposed subject matter met with the lively response from the authors, so much so that the number of submitted papers prompted the Editorial Board to divide them into two volumes. The first volume, collects the works discussing Minorities in the borderlands and the fringes of countries

Achievements of the Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies, University of Łódź, in the field of political geography

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 Poland. Over the last 25 years Professor Marek Koter has managed to create in Łódź the Polish school of political geography, stimulating the development of this science in Poland, educating new political geographers every year and enjoying certain international esteem. The Łódź political geography centre draws on the beautiful tradition of Polish political geography developing in the interwar period in Lvov, Cracow, Poznan and Warsaw