New commercial behaviour as a reason of social and economic changes of divided towns on the Polish-German and Polish-Czech borders
Journal: Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna
Year: 2013

The end of the First World War saw a rebirth of the Polish state, but with indeterminate borders. As a result of a conflict between Poland and Czechoslovakia about Cieszyn Silesia, in February 1919 this area, including the town of Cieszyn, was temporarily divided (its part on the left bank of the Olza went to Czechoslovakia). Similarly, after the Second World War the new Polish-German border ran along the Lusatian Nysa and Oder rivers. Also in this case several split towns were created (includin