<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article tackles the difficult problem of identity creation of new inhabitants of western and northern Poland after 1945 and of relativism in the understanding of national identity after 1989. One of the manifestations are geographical names, which are reflected on maps. The authors of the article looked at this difficult, historically unprecedented process of integration and identification of new inhabitants with the geographical space through the prism of maps, entering into the contemporary discussion about the transformations taking place in the understanding of national identity.</p></abstract>

The article tackles the difficult problem of identity creation of new inhabitants of western and northern Poland after 1945 and of relativism in the understanding of national identity after 1989. One of the manifestations are geographical names, which are reflected on maps. The authors of the article looked at this difficult, historically unprecedented process of integration and identification of new inhabitants with the geographical space through the prism of maps, entering into the contemporary discussion about the transformations taking place in the understanding of national identity.

Names on maps as an element of the discussion about relativism in the understanding of national identity (based on the example of western and northern Polish territories after 1945 and 1989)

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of the History of Science, Team for the History of Cartography

Polish Cartographical Review

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The article tackles the difficult problem of identity creation of new inhabitants of western and northern Poland after 1945 and of relativism in the...

Names on maps as an element of the discussion about relativism in the understanding of national identity (based on the example of western and northern Polish territories after 1945 and 1989)

Published Online: Mar 01, 2018

Page range: 199 - 207

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pcr-2017-0016

Keywords
western and northern Poland, post-war period, maps, geographical names, identity, relativism

© 2017 Beata Konopska et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Names on maps as an element of the discussion about relativism in the understanding of national identity (based on the example of western and northern Polish territories after 1945 and 1989)

Published Online: Mar 01, 2018

Page range: 199 - 207

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pcr-2017-0016

Keywordswestern and northern Poland, post-war period, maps, geographical names, identity, relativism

© 2017 Beata Konopska et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
western and northern Poland, post-war period, maps, geographical names, identity, relativism