Explore: Polonisation

Polonization or Polonisation (Polish: polonizacja) is the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular the Polish language. This

of Poland, becoming de jure Polish territory. Under the pressures of Polonisation, many landed gentry of Ruthenia converted to Catholicism and joined the

and was the largest state in Europe. Simultaneously, Poland imposed Polonisation policies in newly acquired territories which were met with resistance

was settled with colonists from Poland proper resulting in systematic polonisation of these lands. When the Kalmar Union between Sweden and Denmark was

regarded as Poland’s Golden Age, marked by territorial expansion and Polonisation, but also by religious tolerance enshrined in the Warsaw Confederation

developments, some of which countered Polonisation in the sphere of education, while others stimulated further Polonisation in the sphere of administration

Potsdam Agreement, with the ensuing Polonisation, or in the case of East Prussia, Lithuanianisation, Polonisation and Russification of these regions,

Belarusian languages. The reform was to cancel the influences of the Polonisation corrupting the Belarusian language. The reform was to remove the archaisms

Hellenization, Hispanicization, Italianization, Lithuanization, Magyarisation, Polonisation, Russification, Serbization, Slovakisation, Swedification, Turkification)

self-government in accordance with the Magdeburg rights. Despite ever-increasing Polonisation, Trakai remained a notable center of Karaim cultural and religious life