| The Curzon Line was a demarcation line between the Second Polish
Republic and Bolshevik Russia, first proposed on December 8, 1919 at the Allied Supreme
Council declaration. The line was authored by British Foreign Secretary, George Nathaniel
Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. In the wake of World War I and the Russian Civil
War, the two countries disputed their borders, and the Polish-Soviet War erupted. ...the line was based on the ethnic composition of the area. ... the final Peace of Riga (or Treaty of Riga) provided Poland with almost 135,000 kmē (52,000 sq mi) of land that was, on average, about 200 km east of the Curzon line. A close approximation of the Curzon line is the current border between the countries of Belarus, Ukraine and Poland |