The name of Poland didn't disappear completely. Here’s an English map from the same year (1799) whose author seems to have missed the partitions. Poland is shown with its traditional borders and one ...

Watched by drones and guarded by a five-and-a-half-metre steel barrier, a border crossing near the Polish town of Połowce encapsulates the security challenges facing the EU, Poland has said.

"Our top priority is to stop this artificially created migration route and not to allow people to cross the border illegally," Maciej Duszczyk, Poland's deputy minister for interior, told a group ...