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At the beginning of 1938 the Slovak-Polish relations were stabilised. Although Poland considered Czechoslovakia in the long term as an artificial state unit to be broken up over time, it sought to maintain relations with Slovak political representation. This attitude was supported by a fact that in the most powerful Slovak political party - Hlinka's Slovak People's Party operated strong Polonophil wing. This wing wished to establish good relations with Polish political representation. After Austria's anschluss, wi...

The Polish-Slovak relations were very complicated at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. Both Slovakia and Poland formed part of Czechoslovakia and they represented the product of a new international political order that emerged after the First World War. However, these states had mutual unresolved problems and border disputes dated often back a long time. These issues also related to Slovakia. Since the late 19th century, the Region of Northern SpiВљ, Region of Orava and the areas around the Town of ?adca had repres...