| Show POLAND ONCE THE SAVIOR OF EUROPE poland whose history Is tragedy and whose people have been called children ot of the sun plays no new role when she seeks to stop the hie onslaughts ts of the bolshevik for it was she who once stayed the march of the turk across europe A communication to the national geographic society sums up poland Po lands I 1 S sad and eventful history as follows in size she outranked out ranked nearly every nation of the continent russia alone of the european Kurop pan nations Is larger than han poland was at her greatest in population she stood tit at the forefront of europe only russia and germany had greater populations before the war than are to be found in ili the lands that once were poland for poland had an area of square miles and the lands that once lay within her boundaries support a population of approximately 50 million in area she was as lar large margeas geas as the former german empire switzerland belgium nolland holland and denmark together larker larger than great bri britain t aln italy and greece combined larger than austria hungary find and serbia in one within what were her boundaries there dwells a present population of great britain and belgium nel glum larger than those of F france rance belgium and holland together and matching that of the old austria hungary poland was three times partitioned and these partition ings were readjusted between the by the congress of vienna in 1815 where the original partitions had bad given russia square miles prussia square miles and austria square miles the reapportionment reapportionment of tb the vienna congress gave russia prussia and austria square miles much of the land hillh russia secured and particularly kiev had find boon been identified with russia generations orations erat ions before poland in the days of her greatest area extended from a point within 50 miles of berlin on the west to the meridian adlan of the sea of adov on the past east on the north it reached nearly to the gulf of finland and on the south lon don lo n to the I of crimea what we now know ris as Pu russian qIan po poland I 1 tin is that neck of ter territory stretching westward between the stas and galicia Gall cla this territory has an area almost exactly equal to that of new york yet in spite of the fat fact that its extreme southern houn boundary try lies north of the latitude of winnipeg its population Is as groat great its as those of new york tork and new jersey combined |
