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3 items extracted from FO 371/5895. Central Europe: Upper Silesia (now in Poland)....
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/510
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This record is about the 3 items extracted from FO 371/5895. Central Europe: Upper Silesia (now in Poland).... dating from 1921 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/510
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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3 items extracted from FO 371/5895. Central Europe: Upper Silesia (now in Poland). 3 maps showing the distribution of Polish and German communities in the region and the result of the plebiscite. (1) 'Résultat du plébiscite en Haute Silésie par communes, d'après les données, parvenues jusqu'au 22.III.1921'. Reference table. Scale: 1:300,960 (calculated). Compiled by Buzoan, Geographer to the Polish Delegation at Paris, March 1921. (2) Copy of item 1, with MS addition, coloured, showing the frontier proposed by Korfanty. (3) 'Górny Slask (Teren Plebiscytowy) - Haute Silésie (Territoire Plébiscitaire)': also showing the Korfanty line and the River Oder. Reference table. Scale: 1:150,000. [By] 'Mfr. Inz. K Firichi u.W. St. Grochowski' for the Polish Plebiscite Committee. Dimensions: (1-2) 56 cm x 44 cm; (3) 105 cm x 82 cm. Item 1 originally enclosed in a letter from Jean Cièchanowski, Polish chargé d'affaires, London, to Sir Eyre Crowe, 5 April 1921; Item 3 originally enclosed in a letter from Etienne Przezdzieck, Polish Ministry for Foreign Affair, 7 April 1921; transmitted in a despatch of W G Max Muller, 12 April 1921.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French and Polish
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entries 3756-3757.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980531/
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