«ZAKERZONNIA» AS A CONCEPT: THE LINE-THE BORDER-THE TERRITORY-THE LOST REGION?
Journal: Ukraine Cultural Heritage National Identity Statehood
Year: 2020

The circumstances and context of creating the concept of «Zakerzonnia», which is used for the generalized definition of the whole region of modern Ukrainian-Polish ethnic borderland, are analyzed. The main approaches to explaining the term «Zakerzonnia» and related with it the notion of Curzon Line in encyclopedic articles are defined. In a brief historiographical review emergence and application of the term Curzon Line to the formation of the Polish-Russian and Polish-Soviet border are observed