Sentence examples for before the partitions from inspiring English sources

In Poland there were no counts before the partitions of the late 18th century, when the title was introduced by the Russians, Austrians, and Prussians.

The borders drawn under the Treaty of Versailles (June 1919) roughly corresponded to Polish-German frontiers before the partitions, except that Gdańsk became the free city of Danzig, and plebiscites were held in parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to determine which nation these regions wished to join.

By the first partition the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lost about 211,000 km² (30% of its territory, amounting at that time to about 733,000 km²), with a population of over four to five million people (about a third of its population of 14 million before the partitions).

By the first partition the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lost about (30% of its territory, amounting at that time to about ), with a population of over four to five million people (about a third of its population of fourteen million before the partitions).

Mere administrative anomalies before the partition of Berlin, these exclaves became potential international trouble spots.

Her father was raised in Lahore before the partitioning that carved out Pakistan as a separate nation.

Mohamedi was born in Karachi in 1937, moved to Bombay before the partition of India, and studied at Central Saint Martins in London in the 1950s.

General Aurora, a Sikh, was born in February 1916 before the partitioning of the Indian subcontinent in what is now Punjab State in Pakistan.

She was born in 1929 in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, before the partition of British India in 1947 into Muslim- and Hindu-majority nations.

This was the case especially in Poland, which before the partition of the Polish kingdom (1772 95) included Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian territories.

Before the partition of the island, most manufacturing was of goods produced for the domestic market by small owner-operated plants, and a considerable number of those plants were located in the area occupied by the Turks in 1974.