foreign policy, railways as well as defence.

After Poland lost Western Pomerania to Germany in the late 13th century, the area of Eastern Pomerania with the strategically important port of Gdansk remained a narrow strip of land giving Poland access to the Baltic Sea and was also sometimes referred to as Pomeranian corridor.

Terminology

According to German historian Hartmut Boockmann the term corridor was first used by Polish politicians,

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