Regions of Poland
History
The first schedule for Physio geographic regionalization of Poland appears in the work of the historian Dlugosz January, this was formed by several centuries the only geographical knowledge. Explicit revival in this area followed the turn of the century 19-20. Century, because the knowledge about the properties of natural landscapes had increased. Many geographers published to this: Stanisław Staszic, Wincenty Pol, Antoni Rehman, Waclaw Nalkowski, Stanisław Lencewicz and Ludomir Sawicki. All of them had their own concept for division of Poland in physio- geographical regions.
Finally, the change of the Polish state borders caused by the Second World War, that the problems of classification had to be dissolved in physio- geographical units. The matter was in 1946 on the theme of I. Overall Polish Geographical Conference.
Most important for the problem was the work of Jerzy Kondracki. The beginnings of his work is in 1955, when he in the journal " Przegląd Geograficzny " the article problematic physical geographic regionalization of Poland. Based on its regionalization eventually emerged the classification of phyiogeographischen regions of the world with decimal encoding, which was proposed in 1964 to the International Geographical Congress in London.
The proposal for the regionalization of Poland was presented in modified form two years later at an international symposium, which was organized by the Polish Geographical Society and the Institute of Physical Geography, University of Warsaw. In 1987 there were corrected names of the regions, which was standardized by the laying down of toponyms with the Office of the Polish Council of Ministers and published in the official publication Nazwy Geograficzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1991.
The largest modification in the physio geographical regionalization of Poland was carried out a few years later, when the map Regiony fizycznogeograficzne by Jerzy Kondracki and Andrzej Richling in the Atlas Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (1993-1997, Warszawa, Główny Geodeta Kraju ) was published.