Romanian Bridgehead

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title: Romanian Bridgehead
text: The Romanian Bridgehead was an area in southeastern Poland that is now located in Ukraine. During the invasion of Poland in 1939 at the start of the Second World War, the Polish commander-in-chief, Marshal of Poland Edward Rydz-Śmigły, ordered all Polish troops fighting east of the Vistula to withdraw towards Lwów and then to the hills along the borders with Romania and the Soviet Union on 14 September. After the Soviets attacked on 17 September, Rydz-Śmigły ordered all units to withdraw to Roma
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description: Former area in southeastern Poland
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Bridgehead
date created: 2004-12-03T15:56:34Z
date modified: 2024-08-27T03:11:51Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Rzeczpospolita_1937.svg","width":2220,"height":1554}
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