ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE TERRITORY EAST OF THE CURZON LINE
The disputed territory which extended from the Curzon Line to Russia's western border (1921)
had approximately 13,000,000 inhabitants over an area covering 188,000 kilometres.
The following statistics were gathered from a 1931 Polish census of the area.
|Ukrainians & Rusyns
|They were also classified into religious groups:
|Greek Catholics (or Uniates)
|Other Christians denominations
The cities and towns west of the Curzon Line were predominantly Polish. The rural population represented
various ethnic groups in numbers far greater than found in urban cities. Southern Poland had a large
Ukrainian population, but of Galician descent.
After World War II, Poland acquired new territory to the west, which included Silesia, Pomerania, Lubus Land,
Warmia, and Masuria. These were the provinces originally part of eastern Germany and from which German
inhabitants were expelled after the war.