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By annexing Poland and the Baltic States, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union eliminated the buffer states between them and magnified the threat of war
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By 1979, the town had grown to three square miles after annexing several residential developments.
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By the Treaty of Jassy in 1792, Russia expanded southward to the Dniestr river, annexing most of Yesidan.
By annexing large territories in northeastern France, Hitler hoped to marginalize the country to prevent any further continental challenges to Germany's hegemony.
By annexing Alexandria in 1847, Virginia may have breached its contractual obligation to " forever cede and relinquish " the territory.
* The Kurdish resistance to Southern Kurdistan annexing with Iraq, By Dr. Rebwar Fatah.
By 1795, the French had once again conquered the Austrian Netherlands and the left bank of the Rhine, annexing them directly into France.
By and Poland
By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.
By 1991 the communist governments of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania, all of which had been imposed after World War II, were brought down as revolution swept Eastern Europe.
By the start of World War I the cinema in Poland was already in full swing, with numerous adaptations of major works of Polish literature screened ( notably the Dzieje grzechu, Meir Ezofowicz and Nad Niemnem.
By the turn of the 19th century they became new powers, having divided Poland between them, with Sweden and Turkey having experienced substantial territorial losses to Russia and Austria respectively as well as pauperisation.
By the end of World War I Poland had seen the defeat or retreat of all three partitioning powers.
By the 1830s the majority of Jews in Ukraine, Galicia, and central Poland were Hasidic, as were substantial minorities in Belarus, Hungary and
By July 1945, Stalin's troops effectively controlled the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and refugees were fleeing out of these countries fearing a Communist take-over.
By the time Mieszko I took over from his father, the Polans ' tribal federation of Greater Poland had for some time been actively expanding.
By July, the Red Army effectively controlled the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and refugees were fleeing out of these countries fearing a Communist take-over.
By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland in Europe to Alaska in North America.
By autumn 1940, after conquering its portion of Poland, the Third Reich shared an extensive border with USSR, with whom it remained neutrally bound by their non-aggression pact and trade agreements.
By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.
By 1944, there existed three divisions of the SS-TV, those being the staffs of the concentration camps proper in Germany and Austria, the labor camp system in occupied territories, and the guards and staffs of the extermination camps in Poland that were involved in the Holocaust.
By the end of August a Solidarity-led coalition government was formed and in December 1990 Wałęsa was elected President of Poland.
By 1931, the city had 195, 000 inhabitants, making it the fifth largest city in Poland with varied industries, such as Elektrit, a factory that produced radio receivers.
By the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia was merged with the surrounding parts of East Prussia and annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia ; the properties of the Archbishopric of Warmia were secularized by the Prussian state.
By the year 1000, Bolesław I had consolidated his position as Duke ( Dux ) of Poland.
* April 14 – By the Treaty of Krakow, Poland and Hungary recognize the independence of Moldavia.
By the time of the Union of Lublin in 1569, there was not much difference between the administrative and judicial systems in force in Lithuania and Poland.
By seizing northwestern Poland, Prussia instantly gained control over 80 % of the Commonwealth's total foreign trade.
By sheer tenacity of purpose, Bestuzhev had extricated his country from the Swedish imbroglio ; reconciled his imperial mistress with the courts of Vienna and London ; enabled Russia to assert herself effectually in Poland, Turkey and Sweden ; and isolated the King of Prussia by forcing him into hostile alliances.
By that time, Koch had been transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, but his wife, Ilse, was still living at the Commandant's house in Buchenwald.
By the 13th century the term became the dominant name for Rus ' in Latin documents, particularly those written in Hungary, Bohemia, and Poland.
By 1311, Władysław was in power in Lesser Poland and his Kuyavian patrimony.
By 1252 the settlement was known by the names Tczew and Dirschau, and in 1258 Tczew hosted the first city council in Poland.
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By turning back at what he thought was the limit of Germany, he not only missed the Balts, but did not discover that more Germans, the Goths, had moved into the Baltic area.
By 1991, economic and political turmoil were beginning to boil over, as the Baltic republics chose to secede from the Union.
By 980 Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern day Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads.
By the end of 2008, the country had a fleet of over 24, 000 locomotives, the most lines in the world, the fastest express train in service, and longest high speed track in the world .. UK, Denmark, and other countries in northern Europe that surround the Baltic Sea and North Sea, continue to develop their rapid expansion of off-shore wind farms.
By the 11th century, East Slavs assimilated the Uralic tribes Merya and Muroma, and the Baltic tribe Eastern Galindae that inhabited the same area ( now Central Russia ).
By the middle of the 17th century the Dutch had built by far the largest mercantile fleet in Europe, with more ships than all the other states combined, and their economy, based mainly on maritime commerce, gave them a dominant position in European trade, especially in the North Sea and Baltic.
By this time, the remaining Baltic Germans in Estonia and Latvia found themselves in a vastly different situation than in 1939.
By that time western Allied forces were on a front which stretched from the Baltic east of Denmark, southwards along the river Elbe, through the German / Czechoslovakia border into Austria and North Italy.
By the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Sweden received Swedish Pomerania, situated along the German Baltic Sea coast.
By special license from the king of Denmark he enjoyed for some time a monopoly of the fish trade between Iceland, Finland and England, and he also competed successfully with the Flemish merchants in the Baltic Sea, obtaining a large share of their business.
By the 1680s, an average of nearly 1000 Dutch ships entered the Baltic Sea each year.
# By mining the Gulf of Finland Finland's navy together with the Kriegsmarine before the start of Barbarossa locked the Leningrad fleet in, making the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia practically domestic German waters, where submarines and navy could be trained without risks in addition of securing Finland's fundamental trade routes for food and fuel.
By September 28, 1939, the three Baltic Republics felt they had no choice but to permit Soviet bases and troops on their territory.
By the 11th century a fortress named Dirlow, ( or Dirlovo ) existed where the River Wieprza entered the Baltic.
By 1988, when the power of the Soviet Union was waning and Lithuanian independence was on the horizon, Romuva groups began reorganizing in the Baltic nations and practising their religion in the open.
By acquiring Hartwall in 2002, Finland ’ s leading beverage company business, S & N became 50 % owners of Baltic Beverages Holding ( BBH ) encompassing brewing interests in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the Baltic Countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
By 1945 half a million Volksdeutsche Germans from Soviet Union, Bessarabia, Romania and the Baltic Germans had been resettled during action " Heim ins Reich " by German organisations like Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and " Resettlement departament " of RKFDV ( Stabshauptamt Reichkomissar für die Festigung deutsches Volkstums ) from the East Europe.
By possessing both sides of the Øresund Strait, as well as The Belts, Denmark had effective control over the entrance to the Baltic Sea and was able to monopolize trade through the sounds.
By the 1990s, the pond presented a serious ecological hazard due to leaching of radioactive and other harmful particulates and dissolved materials into Baltic Sea.
By 1 March the Leningrad, Volkhov and 2nd Baltic Fronts had driven Army Group North back up to on a front, liberating the southern Leningrad region and part of the Kalinin region.
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